Texa's true crime: Miss irresistible murders when 4 high school friends were killed in Christine Paolilla in Clear Lake

Houston, Texas (KTRK) – In the middle of the afternoon on July 18, 2003, four young people were shot with their whole life in the living room of a clear valley house in the Houston area.

The murderers used two weapons and fired over 40 shots in an ambush, which also seemed personally.

“We had this aspect of, this is someone they knew or confidante,” said the investigator of triperers, Andrew Taravella.

The families and friends of the victims mourned for the death of four graduates of the high school. The dead were 18-year-old Rachael Coloroutis and Tiffany Rowell; Tiffany's friend, 19-year-old Marcus Prepella; and Marcus' cousin 21-year-old Adelbert Sanchez.

The community was unsettled. Who could have done such a terrible thing?

Hundreds of tips on the Houston police did not go anywhere, and the several murders became unresolved for three years until one of the suspects, Christine Paolilla, spoke a little too much.

“We always tell our children that the Boogeyman does not exist. Monsters will believe. They do not exist. Well, that's not true,” said prosecutor Rob Freyer. “Because they exist. Christine Paolilla is a monster. She quartered this entire tragedy. These were her friends.”

In the latest episode ABC13 Texas True Crime, Jessica Willey takes the investigation and the surveys and describes how the police could finally solve the crimes.

It took three years, but Paolilla, once “Miss” for her classmates, would instead become known as a murderer.

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