On July 8, 2006, police received an anonymous tip via Crimestoppers regarding the murders of Rowell, Koloroutis, Precella, and Sanchez. The male caller told police that he had been in rehab with Paolilla who had admitted to being a participant in the crime . Police tracked Paolilla down in San Antonio and arrested her on July 19, 2006. (Paolilla's husband was also arrested as police found 70 vials of heroin in the couple's room).
The courts charged her, and Paolilla faced life in prison - narrowly averting the death penalty because she was 17 at the time of the attacks. The case has spurred features on half a dozen docuseries, yet the public still questions why Paolilla turned on her friends. While Paolilla later maintained her intention was to rob Rowell’s home, theorists speculate jealousymotivated the teen. Argument that places the jury outside the record has always been held to be improper. See Everett v. State, 707 S.W.2d 638, 641 (Tex.Crim.App.1986). But despite being highly inappropriate, we cannot conclude that the argument was clearly prejudicial when taken in context.
Born on March 31, 1986, Christine Paolilla is a declared murderer who is sentenced to lifetime imprisonment for brutally killing four people , in which two of them were her friends. With her new found confidence she met and began dating 21 year old Christopher Lee Snider. Snider had a history of drug use as well as a criminal record.
She was friends with two popular girls at school — Rachael Koloroutis and Tiffany Rowell — and she had been voted “Miss Irresistible†by the student body at Clear Lake High School in suburban Houston. Christine Paolilla was born on Long Island, New York on March 31, 1986 to Lori, a stay-at-home mom, and Charles seekers crime Paolilla, a construction worker. When she was 2 years old, her father died, followed by her grandfather and great-grandmother. When she was 7 years old, Paolilla went to live with her grandparents. As a young girl, Christine was diagnosed with alopecia and began wearing wigs.
The couple then fled from the home but not before grabbing a bag of drugs. We do not find that appellant's recorded statements were admitted in violation of Townsend. Appellant may have very likely been under the influence of heroin during her first interrogation, yet no one, including Dr. Glass, actually testified that she appeared intoxicated. Moreover, Dr. Glass never testified that heroin by itself was sufficient to abrogate appellant's free will.
Snider committed suicide in Greenville, S.C., shortly after Paolilla’s arrest, as Houston Police looked for him. He also showed a large photo of Snider, who committed suicide in July 2006, and questioned police tactics in questioning his client. "She totally understands the grief of the families, her friends, the ones who were killed. She only wishes they could understand that she didn't want any of that to happen. But she understands their grief." Her accomplice and former boyfriend, Chris Snider, ran into the woods with a bottle of soda and a collection of pills once he heard the cops were on his tail. Cops tracked her down through her ATM activity, and within two days of that tip, they arrested her.