Episode 48: The Best Friends Forever Murder (Case: Christine Paolilla & Vera Jo Reigle)
They met in High School and became popular and inseparable. One of them was even voted “Miss Irresistible.”
Best friends forever & ever they said - but when four of them are found brutally murdered you have to wonder if someone close to them was involved…
Secrets between friends are sometimes the darkest ones. One of them is a Pretty Little Liar.
Source notes:
Book - “Never See Them Again” - M William Phelps
Documentary - “Goodnight Sugar Babe”
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/miss-irresistible-high-school-murder-trial/story?id=8650177&singlePage=true
https://murderpedia.org/female.P/p/paolilla-christine.htm
https://abcnews.go.com/US/made-houston-teen-kill-friends/story?id=12510159
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/miss-irresistible-wrong/story?id=8651461&singlePage=true
https://nypost.com/2012/02/26/psycho-17-year-old-shot-beat-classmates-to-death/
https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/baytown-news/article/Paolilla-gets-life-in-4-Clear-Lake-slayings-1675610.php#photo-1205657
https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/baytown-news/article/Husband-shocked-by-wife-s-tale-of-killings-1566661.php
DISCLAIMER: Some links are listed in the source material but the material may never be discussed in the podcast (I just wanted to list them because they gave me a deeper picture of the case in full). If there are un-verifiable sources (ie Reddit) - they are typically referred to as un-verified sources, opinions, and or theories in the podcast and not treated as fact.