A Malignant Envy: The Clear Lake Murders (ad free)

Christine Paolilla was an outsider at Clear Lake High School.  Looking different and lacking self-confidence, she was brutally teased and bullied. Christine was awkward, near-sighted, and she had alopecia, requiring her to wear thick glasses and wigs.

But then, Christine was befriended by two pretty, popular girls: Rachael Koloroutis and Tiffany Rowell.  They helped Christine improve her appearance and she seemed like a new person with a new lease on life.  In 2003, she was voted “Miss Irresistible” by her classmates.

But on July 18, 2003, Christine’s helpful new friends, Rachael and Tiffany, were gunned down, along with two young men, at Tiffany’s house.  At first, it appeared to be a drug-related mass murder, but law detectives saw indications of a crime fueled by intense hatred and jealousy.

Join us at the quiet end for A Malignant Envy. These murders went unsolved for years before any arrests were made.  By then, Christine was in a dysfunctional relationship with a heroin addict she’d met in rehab.  When she learned that the police were closing in on her and her high-school boyfriend as the killers, she went into hiding. An anonymous tip would lead to her apprehension, but was this high school girl really responsible for the massacre of four people, including her two best friends?

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Best Friend’s Betrayal, Deadly Women, Investigation Discovery, 2/16/2017

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.), Christine Marie PAOLILLA v. The State of Texas, May 26,2011

legal-forms.laws.com, Ex Parte Christine Marie Paolilla v.–Appeal from 351st
District Court of Harris County, 11/29/2007

Miss Irresistible Accused of Killing Friends, ABC News.com, 9/24/2009

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