True Crime with Rachel Shannon
"F**k you, I'm Innocent": Mother Murders her Son by Shooting him 9 TIMES!! The Case of Eli Hart
Sat, 08 Mar 2025
A mother’s love is supposed to be unconditional—but in this shocking and heartbreaking case, it turned into pure horror. Eli Hart, a 6-year-old boy, was brutally murdered by his own mother, who shot him nine times in cold blood. Despite multiple red flags and a custody battle, the system failed to protect him. Was this tragedy preventable? And how did a mother justify such an unthinkable act? Watch till the end as we uncover the chilling details of Eli Hart’s case. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more true crime stories.What are your thoughts on Eli's horrifying case? Let's discuss in the comments. Thank you guys for watching, hope to see you next time!
Chapter 1: What is the shocking case of Eli Hart?
Hallo alle, mein Name ist Rachel und willkommen zurück zu einem anderen True Crime Video. Also, der Fall, den ich für euch heute habe, ist einer, der euch angreifen wird. Es wird euren Blut erhitzen, weil das, was passiert ist, niemals passieren sollte. Es sollte niemals so gehen, wie es war und wir werden sehen, wie schlimm dieses Kind verletzt wurde. Und es ist furchtbar.
Es ist ein wirklich, wirklich furchtbarer Fall. Und ich vertreibe diese Art von Fällen nicht, weil sie so schwer zu sprechen sind. Aber gleichzeitig müssen diese Fälle immer noch diskutiert werden, weil sie so bedrohlich sind. So without any further delay, let's just get into the case because there is a lot to discuss here. Eli Hart was born to Tori Hart and Julissa Thaler.
Eli was described by those who knew him as the sweetest kid who was kind, compassionate and loving. Everyone who met the six-year-old little boy immediately fell in love with him. He was always happy, full of energy, full of questions, talkative and was very inquisitive. He loved to play with Matchbox cars and was just recently learning how to fish.
Chapter 2: What was Eli's early life like?
Eli loved to sit on his dad's shoulders, wanting to be up there whenever he could. Others described that there was just this special bond between Tori and Eli, where you knew that they just belonged together. Eli wurde mit Townes-Brock-Syndrom geboren, welches ein rarer Genetisches Verhältnis ist, das mehrere verschiedene Teile seines Körpers beeinflusst.
Es kann an Körperschäden führen, an schweren Hörverlusten, an Augenabnormalitäten, an Herzschlägen, an Fußabnormalitäten und an genitalen Malfunktionen. Die Auswirkungen dieses Verhältnisses sind von Person zu Person groß, und ca. 10% derjenigen mit diesem Verhältnis haben auch eine leichte Lernuntersuchung bemerkt.
Some people with the disorder may suffer greatly from the symptoms, but most people will go on to live a normal, fulfilled life with a normal life expectancy. Because of his condition, Eli wore hearing aids, he had flat feet and some of his toes overlapped. und er musste regelmäßige Check-Ups durch sein ganzes Leben gehen, um die Progression seiner Behinderung zu beobachten.
Aber egal, welche Schwierigkeiten er erfasste, hat nichts ihn von dem glücklichen, energetischen Junge, der er immer war, gehalten. Er liebte es, Bubblen zu schlagen, auf dem Park zu schwimmen und jeden Dienstagabend gingen Eli und Tori zu Carbons Pizzeria und Eli bekam eine riesige Platte von Mehlballen, die er liebte. Eli hatte auch nur letztens gelernt, mit seinem Vater zu fischen.
Tori sagte, dass er originally einen kleinen Fischboden für Eli bekommen hat, aber anstattdessen hat er versucht, seinen Vater einen größeren zu benutzen, also hat er es versucht und er hat es auf seinen ersten Kasten bekommen. He caught more fish than Tory did. He was a natural. Eli attended Shirley Kelly Primary School in Mound, Minnesota. There he was popular with the other kids.
He loved being social with the other children. He loved talking and playing with the other kids. He was very outgoing and he had tons of friends who adored him. Eli loved seeing fire trucks and he had dreams of someday becoming a firefighter. Die Beziehung zwischen Elias Eltern, Tori und Julissa war eine zerstörerische. Julissa selbst hatte eine ziemlich scharfe Geschichte von Anfang an.
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Chapter 3: How did Julissa Thaler's mental health issues affect Eli?
Laut Gerichtsschriften hat Julissa angefangen, Alkohol zu benutzen, als sie 13 war, und sie hatte seit 14 Jahren eine missbrauchbare Adderall-Preskripte. Und um die gleiche Zeit begann sie, Weide zu trinken. Dann, als sie 16 war, begann sie, Opioide zu verbreiten. Als sie 20 war, begann sie, Benzodiazepine zu benutzen. Und als sie 21 war, begann sie, LSD fast täglich zu benutzen.
Während dieser Zeit wurde sie auch mit zwei Persönlichkeitsverletzungen und einem Verbrechungsverletzungsverletzungen behandelt. I'm not exactly sure how long Julissa and Tori were together or if they were ever actually together before having Eli or after having him. But what we do know is that Julissa's mental health and drug abuse did not improve after Eli was born.
When Eli was only a year and a half old, Child Protective Services got a report that Julissa had been delusional and despondent. Als sie antworteten, fanden sie, dass Julissa fasziniert war, dass ein Fisch ihren Sohn attackieren wollte. Aber nach diesem Video hat sie sich für ihre mentale Gesundheit verabschiedet. Also hat CPS den Fall geschlossen.
In 2019 hat sie Tori verurteilt, dass sie eine Bombe in ihrem Auto geplant hat. Als sie das beurteilt hat, haben die Polizei eine Wasserbottel voller Zähne gefunden. Aber das war genug, um Jalissa gegen Tori eine Verabschiedung anzunehmen. Das machte es so, dass er sie nicht mehr kontaktieren konnte. Aber dadurch wurde sie auch von Eli einzigartig verabschiedet.
Von 2020 bis 2021 hat Jalissa mehrere weitere psychische Veränderungen erlebt, um Eli mit den Folgen zu verletzen. In October of 2020, law enforcement was called to her resident after she got locked out of her own place. When they got there, they found that she appeared to be unstable, so they questioned her ability to take care of her son.
They took Jalissa into the hospital and placed her on a 72-hour hold after finding that she was in a state of delusion at the time. Then, when the officers entered the home to look around, At this time they found that there were raw eggs broken and smeared all throughout the floor. There was food all around the main floor that was in various states of rotting.
There had been a fence that was disassembled and just sitting there lying on the kitchen floor. The home was an absolute mess and filled with clutter and the officer noted that he couldn't even find Eli's clothes or his shoes and he was naked when police arrived. Then in early 2021 police responded to yet another call. This time Jalissa was found to be having paranoid delusions and hallucinations.
She said that she was hearing voices that were telling her to kill herself. When police arrived, they found that Eli once again was in a state of neglect. Eli at the time had been covered in cuts, his hair was matted and he didn't have his hearing aids. Finally, After this call, the state took five-year-old Eli away from the home and placed him into foster care.
By January of 2021, Eli was placed into the care of Julissa's cousin Steven Kronberg and his wife Nikita. Once again at this home, Eli stayed true to himself. His caregivers reported that despite his struggles and seeing his mom go through these mental breakdowns and being neglected, living in horrific conditions, he was still this sweet, energetic, loving little boy.
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Chapter 4: What red flags were missed by the authorities?
Sie war auch nicht aufgrund des gesetzlichen Behandlungsverfahrens, der im Oktober 2021 vollständig das Behandlungsverfahren stoppte. Und sie wurde tatsächlich aus der Parenting-Klasse ausgewählt, in der sie war, wegen ihres disruptiven Verhaltens. Auch während des gesamten Jahres hat Jalissa weiter Behandlungen gegen Tori gemacht.
Aber während dieser Zeit, während er im Pflegehaus war, waren Both Jalissa und Tori mit Eli zu besuchen. Und während dieser Zeit begann ein Fortschritt. Zuerst erzählte Eli den Arbeiter, dass Jalissa nicht glücklich war. Er erzählte ihnen, dass Jalissa ihm, Eli, erzählt hat, dass sie aus Mountain Dew und Zigaretten überlebt hat.
Er sagte, dass seine Mutter traurig und traurig ist und dass es für sie nicht recht ist. dass sie nicht schlafen kann. Sie kann essen, weil sie so traurig und traurig ist. Also sagt sie all das zu ihrem fünf- oder sechsjährigen kleinen Junge, dass sie traurig ist, dass sie nicht isst, dass sie nicht schläft, weil sie traurig ist. Klingt wie ihr Problem, nicht für ihr Kind.
Dann, während einer anderen Besuch, hat Jalissa ihre Fingerknöpfe in eine Hand des Sozialverwaltungsstaffes gelegt und dann Garbage an sie gegeben. Dann, in einer Besuchung eine Woche danach, sagte der gleiche Sozialarbeiter, dass Jalissa straight-up Eli für Stunden an einem Zeitpunkt ignorierte und einfach komplett ausgerichtet aussah.
In diesem Fall sagte der Sozialarbeiter, dass Eli mit einem Spielzeug spielte und er seine Mutter begann, ihm zu helfen, weil das Spielzeug nicht funktionierte. Er hat Jalissa immer lauter und lauter gefragt, um Hilfe, aber seine Mutter hat einfach nicht zu ihm geantwortet. Sie stand einfach direkt vor ihm, bemerkte nicht mal, dass er da war.
Dann, nach einigen Minuten, hat sie ihn mit dem Spielzeug geholfen und ist dann wieder zurückgegangen, in den Raum zu schauen. Während der Besuche mit Tori sah Eli glücklich aus. He was seeming to grow a very special bond with his father.
Eli mentioned nothing to the caseworkers about any sort of abuse or neglect or anything that could point towards him being abusive or anything towards him or Julissa. Der Anwalt wusste damals, dass Jalissa all diese verschiedenen Angelegenheiten gegen Tori gemacht hatte.
In Minnesota, wenn es um diese Behandlungskämpfe geht und die Pflege und all das, haben die Eltern im Grunde eine Jahr, um zurück auf den Weg zu kommen, um das Kind zurückzuholen, oder sie werden permanent in ein anderes Zuhause gesetzt. So, by November of 2021, it seemed that Jalissa was finally just starting to clean up her act and was starting to meet parts of the plan.
During the time before this, she only had supervised visits, so now she was starting to have unsupervised visits with Eli, and during these visits, she always picked him up on time. Sie hat es zu Elias Therapieabläufe auf der Zeit gemacht und würde ihn immer wieder an seinem Vater-Vateres Zuhause in der Zeit auch wiederholen.
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Chapter 5: What led to Eli being placed in foster care?
Tori and the foster parents emailed with Beth, expressing their concern for Eli's well-being. In part, the email reads, We are just gonna forget every single bad thing that she's done these last 10 months? I guess there's not much I can do but keep my doors open for him when he will return. Because everyone in the family sees him returning to foster care if he is returned to her.
Beth sagte also, dass sie basically warned Alyssa, that if things didn't go well with the home visit, that they were going to place Eli with Tory and file for a transfer of custody. When pondering this idea, Beth had emailed with Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Jackson asking basically what are the requirements for them to end a trial home visit and transfer custody.
In the email, Jennifer Jackson replied saying that the home visit may end in order to protect the child's health, safety or welfare. It does not need to rise to the level of endangerment. So she continued by saying, if mom shows she cannot consistently meet his needs by missing appointments, school, etc., then we will consider ending the trial home visit.
We can also consider ending the trial home visit if mom does not make her appointments and it directly affects Eli's health, safety or welfare. And I do like a backup plan with dad. So, the judge signed off on this trial home visit, which was set to start on December 22nd, which was a few weeks out at that point and it would be during his school break so that Eli wouldn't have to miss school.
During the time before the trial home visit though, Eli was allowed overnight visits with his mom. But after one of these overnight visits, Julissa was driving dangerously over 20 miles over the speed limit when she was dropping Eli back off at the foster home. This, of course, really scared Eli and he was sobbing as he got out of the car with his mom.
So because of this incident, Stephen emailed the caseworker, Beth, saying again, quote, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the decision to do this home trial. The reason Eli was taken from the home was due to mom's mental health and her mental health has not improved at all. If anything, I would say it has declined. Then, on another night, Stephen woke up at around 3 a.m.
to find that Julissa and her roommate had driven to the home, parked outside, and were watching the home with binoculars. They had been sitting there for hours, just watching the house. So, Stephen called 911 and tried to go outside to confront Julissa, but just as he got out of the car, she drove off.
Once again, Nikita, Stephens' wife, emailed Beth Denner, saying that she was scared for her family's safety. Beth replied, saying that she would get the family a restraining order banning her from having contact with them, but apparently these behaviors did not raise a red flag for Julissa being mentally unwell in general. fühlte Beth trotzdem, dass Eli mit seiner Mutter nach Hause gehen sollte.
Und anstatt Jalissa für dieses überraschende Verhalten zu verurteilen, entscheidete Beth, dass das beste Kurs der Aktion war, Eli mit Jalissa zwei Tage zu früh nach Hause zu bringen. So, instead of punishing... Jalissa für ihr Verhalten, hat sie Eli verurteilt, ihn mit seiner Mutter heimzuschicken, die klar nicht mental fit war, um ihn zu kümmern.
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Chapter 6: How did the system respond to Julissa's behavior?
That same month, Jalissa missed even more parenting classes to the point that she was kicked out again by mid-January. Dann hat CPI gemerkt, dass Julissa ihnen über ihr Mental-Health-Programm lügen wollte.
Sie hat CPS geemailt und gesagt, dass sie ihr Programm aufgehört hat und keine Hilfen mehr benötigte, aber der Programmleiter hat auch zu CPS gesprochen und ihnen gesagt, dass das einfach nicht wahr war. Sie sagten auch, dass sie nicht glaubten, dass Jalissa mit ihren Therapeuten wahrhaft war und dass sie immer neue Therapeuten suchte, die ihre ganze Geschichte nicht wussten. Auch mit all dem.
Auch mit diesen E-Mails, diesen Verletzungen, den Lügen, dem schrecklichen Fahren. All of the other red flags. Beth Denner did not think that there were any issues. In an email, she wrote, "...despite the ongoing concerns regarding Ms. Thaler's behavior, the county reunified her with her son for a trial home visit on December 20th, 2021.
There is no current indication that her son is physically unsafe in her care." Sie hat Eli regelmäßig zu Doktoren- und täglichen Therapien eingeladen. Dann hat Beth entschieden, dass sie nach zwei Monaten normaler Drogenprüfung, sie von den randomen Drogenprüfungen entfernt hat.
Also, ich glaube, zwei Monate nach Jahren und Jahren und Jahren und Jahren und Jahren und Jahren von Drogenverbrechen ist genug, um zu beweisen, dass sie gut ist. Und nach dem Verlangen ihrer echten Drogen- und Therapie-Vereinigungen. Sie ist in Ordnung. Zwei Monate sauber. Du bist gut. Du bist gut zu gehen. Laut Beth. By February, Eli's behaviors started to change.
His teachers began to notice that this one happy, sweet, energetic, loving young boy started to become aggressive. And he even lashed out and punched another boy at school. The teacher was concerned, so she emailed Beth with the concern. She wrote, quote, I asked each student to give me an example of someone being mean to them on the playground or in school.
Eli proceeded to tell me that his mom pushes him. Other students seemed shocked by this example. We then discussed the importance of telling a trusted adult like a teacher or a principal if an adult is hurting you. To this, Beth responded, I appreciate the update and it's interesting that he would make that statement.
It's not something that CPS would take as maltreatment report to assess, unfortunately. However, I do want you to keep documenting everything. That same month, Eli's therapist emailed Beth to let her know that Julissa had become confrontational with the therapist and when that happened, Eli became scared and hid in the cabinet from his mother.
Then, in early March, there was yet another report from Eli's school. In this email, it was said that Eli told the teacher, my mom is hurting me. The teacher asked what she was doing, to which Eli said that she grabbed his wrists and squeezed him hard. There is no record of any response, so it seemed that CPS did nothing. By that same month in March, Tory filed for custody of his son.
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Chapter 7: What were the final events leading to Eli's tragic fate?
Also hat ein anderer Mitarbeiter namens Amy beschlossen, Eli zu holen. Als sie ihn holte, sagte sie, dass Eli scharfe Kreise unter seinen Augen hatte. He looked dirty and he looked like he hadn't showered in days. Eli told Amy that he had been up the entire night before, that he had been driving around in the car all night with his mom.
The same day that Amy was picking Eli up, Josie, Torys then girlfriend, texted Amy and asked her if she had picked up Eli. Hi, this is Josie. Were you able to pick him up? Amy said, I've got him in my car. I'm about to leave their apartment, so I'll be in Hudson in an hour. Josie said, thank you. Amy said, they pulled up in a car. Eli said, they were driving around all night.
Josy said, I bet she lost her apartment. You'll report that to Beth, right? Amy said, definitely. Josy said, I parked by the welcome sign for McDonald's. I do have to run in and use the restroom quickly in case I'm not in the car. Amy said, okay, we just pulled in two. Josy said, any chance she told you when the last time she gave him his medicine was or what she gave him?
Amy said, no, she didn't say. I'm assuming you're talking about the Tylenol. She just stated that if he gets a fever to give him some. I'm going to assume she hadn't given him any unless Eli said differently. She seemed so disorganized and disheveled. It took her a bit to gather up what few things from her car that I gave you. I've never seen Eli look this way before.
I can call or text her if you'd like and ask. Josie said, I haven't either. And she said, no, it's fine. I was just wondering what she was giving him. He just seemed out of it a little himself. Not sure if it's because she gave him cough medicine or something or he's really tired. I'm just not sure. He doesn't have a fever or complains, so I'm not planning on giving him anything anytime soon.
Amy said, I'm sure if they've been sleeping in her car for a few nights or driving around, as Eli said, it could have just been pure exhaustion from that. I can't imagine what she's putting that child through right now. God knows what she may have given him. I sent Beth Denner and the GAL an email of what I saw this morning and what Eli reported to me.
Josie said, this whole situation breaks my heart for Eli and Tori. Thank you. We won't quit fighting for Eli. Amy said, breaks my heart too. He deserves a good life with the two of you. I will do anything I can to help you guys. Josie said, I just don't understand why this has gone on so long. Laws need to change. Amy said, Josie said, Josie said,
Ehrlich gesagt, wollen wir nur, dass dieser Chip-Case geschlossen wird, damit wir mit der Behandlung im Familiengericht umgehen können, wo jemand tatsächlich das Beste für Eli machen kann. Amy sagte, das ist wahrscheinlich das Beste an diesem Punkt, weil die Macht, die auf der Chip-Seite ist, nichts macht.
Ich bete, dass Tori endlich Behandlung bekommen kann, wenn der Fall in den Familiengericht geht. Letztendlich, wie enttäuschend ist das, dass andere Sozialarbeiter, die Beth kennen und mit ihr interagieren, literally sagen, dass sie nur schlau ist.
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