She said she had accompanied him to the house to buy drugs and that the shootings took place after they returned later. The four victims were found dead July 18, 2003, in a Clear Lake-area home. Prosecution witnesses have said the killings appeared to have been drug-related. She and Snider went to the house to steal money and drugs — his idea, she said — and Snider surprised her by handing her a gun just before entering the house.
Christine Paolilla, right, and her boyfriend at the time of the murders, Christopher Snider, left. On July 18, 2003, Christine and her boyfriend Christopher Snider went to Tiffany's home in Clear Lake City, Texas, and murdered Tiffany, Rachael, and two other friends in cold blood. Why would a young girl-who had already experienced such a deep loss-commit such a brutal act? Especially upon the two people she seemingly cared about most. By the time she entered high school, Christine had suffered the sudden death of her father and was diagnosed with alopecia--an irreversible disease that caused her to lose her hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes.
He said Snider killed Precella and Sanchez, and Paolilla shot the two girls. "Their intention ... that day was not for anyone to be murdered," Rott said. "Their intentions that day were to hang out and do drugs." Rott, who was not married to Paolilla at the time of the killings, shared with the Chronicle previously unpublicized details of what he said his wife told him happened that day.
Although appellant received potent dosages of each drug, no seekers crime one testified that either morphine or Methadone would render appellant incapable of understanding her rights. After receiving this treatment, appellant did not slur her words during the second interview. She did not pause inappropriately before answering a question, nor did she seem confused. Nothing on the audio recording indicated that appellant was incompetent to testify.
Using a six-person photo spread, the Lackners also identified Snider as the accompanying male. Dr. Glass also described the drug treatment appellant received following her arrest. He said that six milligrams of morphine was a significant dosage normally reserved for intense pain, similar to the type of pain experienced by an adult male during a heart attack.
In July 2005, the second anniversary of the murders, Paolilla saw a newscast on television about the still unsolved case. She became upset after seeing sketches of the suspects given by neighbors and confessed to Rott that she and Snider had committed the murders. By November 2005, Paolilla and Rott were living in a motel room in San Antonio. For the next eight months, the couple holed up in the room, shooting heroin and cocaine. At an early age Christine Paolilla was forced to go through several hardships. After her father was killed in a construction accident, her mother began abusing drugs and neglecting Christine and her brother.