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Murder At 13 · 10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

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  Welcome to ten Minute Murder, Brief and binge Able True Crime. My name
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  is Joe. I'm the host. Thank you for joining today. And last
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  night I was in bed about to fall asleep, which is where I seem
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  to do my best, thinking semi conscious and under the influence of ben and
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  drill or melatonin sometimes both. But anyway, I'm overly critical of words,
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  and I get impressed by people that are colorfully descriptive, like they're just telling
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  you something ordinary a meal they made for breakfast, but it sounds like they're
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  reading from a novel. I love that, and it makes me hyper fixated
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  on words and their usage. I'm weird. We all know this, but
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  anyway, I'm in bed. I don't recall what it was in reference too,
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  but I thought, don't you dare? And sometimes you can break up
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  a contraction for emphasis, like a sign that says do not park versus if
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  it were to say don't park, I might park there because it feels less
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  important. So don't you dare? Do not you dare? That doesn't make
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  sense to me, and that sent me spiraling into who gets to decide these
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  language idiosyncrasies? And is this why people write a letter? To their congressman.
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  I've never done that before, but I need action on this. I
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  said all that to say I'm sleepy today because my brain is a menace to
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  my well being. If this is your first time listening to ten Minute Murder,
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  possible. Your positive feedback is appreciated. You can go to ten minute Murder
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  dot com for all things ten Minute Murder. Now to today's story. Paris
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  Bennett was born October tenth, nineteen ninety three. His father quickly abandoned him,
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  leaving Paris to be raised by his mother, Charity. Charity led a
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  difficult life, becoming a heroin addict as a teenager, but when she got
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  pregnant with Paris while in a halfway house, she began to turn her life
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  around. For the first eight years of his life, Paris Bennett seemed like
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  a perfectly normal child. In fact, he wasn't just ordinary or normal.
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  He was exceptional. He had a genius level IQ. He loved art and
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  had a creative intellectual way of viewing the world. If there were any signs
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  of the violence and cruelty he would grow up to inflict, they were well
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  hidden until the day that Charity told her son that she was going to have
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  another baby. Paris was furious that he would have to share his life with
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  a sibling. He was so upset whenever Charity spoke about her pregnancy or Paris's
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  future sibling, he would storm out of the room hearing this. You might
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  think that Paris's hatred of his sibling would only increase once Charity gave birth,
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  but in fact, the opposite happened. As soon as Paris met his baby
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  sister, Ella, all of the anger he'd shown seemed to evaporate immediately.
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  From day one, Paris adored his little sister. But things for Charity and
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  her children were about to get more difficult. For the second time in her
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  life, the father of Charity's young baby left and Charity was once again a
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  single mother, this time to two young children. The stress began to get
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  to her. After so long battling for sobriety, Charity began using cocaine again.
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  Ella was too young to notice her mother's erratic behavior during these drug binges,
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  but Paris knew something was wrong. He was used to his mom being
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  reliable, and now she was working long hours and going out on drug binges.
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  Slowly, Paris began to resent Charity. That anger he felt what his
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  mom was pregnant with Ella began to rise to the surface again. Through all
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  of this, Paris and Ella were still close despite their age gap. They
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  often played together and Paris took care of his little sister without complaining. Six
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  months later, Charity finally stopped using cocaine, but the damage her relapse had
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  caused to her family was harder to fix. They were constantly moving houses without
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  any kind of stability for the kids, and eventually had to move in with
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  Charity's mom. It was a day like any other when Paris and Ella were
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  playing together and Paris broke one of Ella's toys. Charity punished Paris for breaking
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  the toy and making Ella cry, and something inside Paris seemed to snap.
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  He grabbed a large knife from the kitchen and began walking around the house with
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  it, and when his mother and grandmother chased after him, Paris turned and
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  began brandishing the knife at them. Eventually, the two women managed to de
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  escalate the situation and confiscate the knife, but the way they viewed Paris would
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  never be the same. Charity arranged to have paris Is evaluated in a psychiatric
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  facility. The facility staff found out that the young boy had an obsession with
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  killing, especially shooting. He was also experiencing suicidal ideation and would sometimes repeatedly
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  smack his head against a wall until he drew blood. Despite all of this
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  evidence that Paris was anything but okay, the hospital discharged him after one week
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  and told Charity that there was nothing wrong with her son. Charity finally was
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  able to move the kids out of her mom's house, and the three of
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  them relocated to Texas, where she got a steady job working at a restaurant.
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  She often had late shifts, so she'd hire a babysitter to look after
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  Paris and Ella, who were now thirteen and four years old. On the
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  fourth of February two thousand and seven, Charity was working another night shift when
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  a police officer arrived at the restaurant asking to speak with her. The officer
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  told Charity that she needed to come with them because Ella had been hurt.
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  Charity immediately panicked, asking to see Ella, but the officer had to break
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  the news to her Ella was dead. After Charity had left for her shift,
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  a chain of events quickly unfolded. Paris had managed to convince the babysitter
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  that she didn't need to stay for the whole shift, and the babysitter had
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  agreed, leaving the two kids alone at approximately ten pm. Immediately afterwards,
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  Paris walked to Ella's room with a kitchen knife in hand. He stabbed the
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  four year old a total of seventeen times, leaving Ella's bloody body in her
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  room. Paris made a phone call to a school friend and the pair talked
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  casually for just over five minutes. During this conversation, Paris didn't seem distressed
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  at all. He talked like it was any other day. After saying goodbye
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  to his friend, Paris then made a call to nine one one. He
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  didn't try to hide what he had done, instead telling the nine one one
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  operator that he had accidentally killed his sister because he had been hallucinating and thought
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  she was a demon. He was urged to perform CPR on Ella. But
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  Paris repeatedly insisted that he knew for sure that she was dead and that c
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  p R would not help. Despite Paris's reluctance, the operator insisted and talked
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  him through the process, getting Paris to count out loud while he performed the
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  chess compressions obediently, Paris did, or at least the operator believed that he
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  had. When the police examined Ella's body, it was immediately clear that Paris
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  had not attempted to perform CPR. He had just been sitting there counting out
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  loud, trying to trick the operator into believing that he was attempting to help.
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  There had been no part of Paris that wanted to try to bring Ella
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  back to life. She was dead and he wanted her to stay that way.
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  Regardless, Paris had openly confessed to killing Ella, and he was taken
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  into custody. During his interview at the police station, Paris stuck to the
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  same story that he had hallucinated that Ella was a demon and ended up accidentally
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  killing her. This time, he fleshed out the story a little more telling
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  interviewered that he had fallen asleep next to Ella and when he woke up.
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  His sister was laughing hysterically at him while covered in flames. None of the
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  investigators believed him for a second. They knew that he had lied about performing
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  CPR, and even though he was pretending to sob while retelling the story,
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  there were no actual tears in his eyes. Paris had killed Ella in cold
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  blood? But why through all of this? Charity desperately wanted to believe that
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  Paris hadn't killed Ella on purpose, but as the investigation went on, it
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  became harder and harder to believe. Ella's autopsy revealed parts of Paris's motive,
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  which was even more horrific than investigators anticipated. The extent of Ella's true injuries
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  had been masked by her stab wounds. She had also been beaten and choked
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  by Paris. The worst piece of evidence came in the form of seamen,
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  which belonged to Paris, that was found in Ella's bed sheets, as well
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  as in the pants Paris had been wearing on the night Ella died. Paris
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  hadn't just murdered his four year old sister, He'd also sexually assaulted her.
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  When investigators began looking into this side of Paris, they quickly discovered more evidence
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  that he'd been obsessed with violent pornography, searching up terms like sadism and bondage.
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  Hours before Ella died, Paris had been looking at snuff films, which
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  are highly illegal videos where a person is killed on camera, usually for sexual
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  gratification. With all of this evidence, Charity had to accept the facts.
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  She confronted Paris about Ella's murder, and as soon as she flatly told her
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  son that she didn't believe his story, his behavior changed immediately. He responded
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  to his mother's statement with one sentence quote, will it took you effing long
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  enough? During an interview, Paris said that his initial plan had been to
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  kill his mother, but he decided that leaving her alive and murdering his sister
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  would be more effective in causing his mother's pain. Paris was given a forty
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  year prison sentence, but never showed any remorse for his crime. Paris said
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  quote, I knew by doing that I could hurt my mother in the worst
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  possible way. Because I had always known as a child that the most devastating
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  thing to my mother would be the loss of one of her children. I
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  found a way to take both of her children in one fell swoop. Paris's
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  motive was simple. He wanted to hurt his mother, and he succeeded.
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  On one of Charity's visits to jail, Paris attempted to choke her to death,
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  but eventually let her live. To this day, he does not regret
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  the killing, and in two thousand twenty seven he will be eligible for parole