It was a nightmare turned Cinderella tale. The July 2003 quadruple murders of Rachael Koloroutis, Tiffany Rowell, Marcus Precella, and Adelbert Sanchez remained unsolved for three years until a phone tip from a tipster in Texas connected police to a troubled adolescent who had seemingly turned her life around from being teased to being crowned “Miss Irresistible” by her fellow students.
However, after what investigators suspect to be a botched drug deal, Christine Paolilla’s ex-boyfriend Christopher Snider fatally shot the same classmates who seemed to take her under their wing.
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ABC News reports that Paolilla appeared to struggle during her first couple years of high school. According to the outlet, the teenager was a quiet outsider whose mother struggled with drug addiction and whose father passed away when the teen was a young boy. The high school student’s alopecia, a disorder that causes premature hair loss, further contributed to her self-consciousness about the way she looked. Paolilla wore wigs at school.
However, the girl was abruptly befriended by two popular teenagers at Clear Lake High School, Rowell and Koloroutis, who were a year older than Paolilla, according to ABC, setting off a friendship that would end tragically.
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On July 18, 2003, police arrived at a house in the Houston area and discovered the four victims dead. According to The Houston Chronicle, investigators thought Paolilla and her ex-boyfriend Snider had come to the residence to buy drugs, and that Sanchez and Precella were drug sellers. But something went awry, main Snider to take out a gun and start capturing, the hole mentioned.
According to the newspaper, the police testified that each victim was shot “multiple” times: Snider allegedly shot Precella and Paolilla, and Koloroutis was pistol-whipped as she attempted to escape after being hit by bullets. Sanchez and Rowell were killed before they could even get off the couch.
Over the following three years, the victims’ relatives relentlessly pursued answers as authorities were unable to solve the case, as reported by ABC News.
Three years after the inquiry reached a standstill, a man made a tip to police regarding Paolilla’s participation by calling a police hotline. He provided them with information about the killings that were only known to detectives, like Koloroutis’ attempt to escape her assailant after she was shot.
Although Paolilla admitted to the crime, a defense doctor testified during the trial that she was suffering from heroin withdrawals at the time of her confession, as reported by the Houston Chronicle.
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