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.
Within three months, teeming with envy and jealousy, Christine and her boyfriend would do the unthinkable. During trial, Christine claimed that Christopher had shot all four victims. She stated that as soon as they entered the home, he opened fire while she hid. She claimed that she had accompanied Christopher to the home to buy drugs earlier on in the day and that when they returned later on.
Supreme Court ruling forbids capital punishment for those 17 and under at the time of the crime. He testified to calling in the tip to Crime Stoppers after learning of the offense from his wife. Rott said that he met appellant at a drug treatment center in Kerrville around November 2004, more than a year after the murders. During their courtship, appellant vaguely told him of an incident with her former boyfriend that resulted in the deaths of four people.
She was arrested on July 19, 2006, three years and one day after the murders were committed. Paolilla was convicted in October 2008 and sentenced to life in prison. Snider committed suicide in July 2006 before he was apprehended by police. Finally, even if the prosecutor's argument did encourage the jury to speculate on facts not in the record, evidence of appellant's participation in the murders was already well-substantiated. For instance, the Lackners witnessed appellant casually approaching Rowell's house on the day of the murders. In her third recorded statement, appellant herself admitted to being inside the seekers nightmares home and holding a gun as her boyfriend pulled the trigger.