“Then he pulled the table back, I caught my breath, and he slammed it into me again.”īennett, who was sentenced to 40 years in prison, continues to try and hurt Lee throughout the book, saying things like, “By the way, I enjoy watching your pain.” I thought I was going to die there,” she wrote on April 14, 2007. “He slammed the table into me, pinning me against the concrete wall behind me. But the realization really sunk in when he attacked her in the visitor’s room in jail. Lee was never in denial that her son might kill her one day. ![]() ‘My son is a monster, and because he is a monster, I have lost my daughter.’ But, if he left me alive, I would suffer for the rest of my life.” “The second reason was the realization if he’d killed me, I only would have suffered for five, 10, 15 minutes. “He said the first reason he didn’t go ahead with it was because it was a lot harder to kill someone than he thought,” Lee said previously. Bennett allegedly pretended to perform CPR, but never actually did.Īt first, the disturbed teen claimed he was driven to kill because of a hallucination that made his sister look like a pumpkin-headed demon on fire.īut soon after, Bennett admitted the truth: He had planned the murder and considered murdering his mom too. He then called a friend from school and chatted for six minutes before calling 911. He told the detectives he stabbed her and pulled the knife out slowly that it felt like stabbing a mattress or a marshmallow.” “…his stabs were slow and methodical, not frenzied, not an uncontrollable rage,” Lee writes. He then entered his sister’s room where she was sleeping, tortured and stabbed her 17 times. “ told me that my daughter had been hurt,” Lee previously recalled in the 2017 documentary “The Family I Had.” “And I was saying, ‘You need to take me to Ella now,’ and they were like, ‘You can’t go … she’s dead.’īennett and Ella were being watched over by a babysitter when Bennett - who has a “genius” level IQ of 141 - convinced the sitter to go home. 5, 2007, when police stopped by her job at a Buffalo Wild Wings near Abilene. Authorities also found semen both on Ella and on the bed where she was killed, Lee states. “He sexually abused her that night, and he admitted the more violent he became, the more excited he became, ending in death for her and climax for him,” she wrote in an entry dated September 22, 2010. “He said ‘Yes.’ He’d been looking the night he killed Ella, but it was so I would see it and get mad,” Lee writes of the “scene straight out of a horror movie.”īut years later, Bennett switched his story to something even darker: He killed his sister “so she wouldn’t tell on him” about the sexual abuse. When Lee learned Bennett was browsing graphic porn like “S&M,” “bondage” and “sadism” and even searched for snuff films in the hours leading up to her daughter’s murder, the mom decided to confront her son. “My son is a monster, and because he is a monster, I have lost my daughter,” the 46-year-old Lee wrote in one gut-wrenching journal entry less than a month after the Feb. The book, which chronicles the Texas mother’s pain, grief and eventual forgiveness through a series of journal entries, also reveals shocking new details about the merciless slaying, including how Bennett watched violent porn for hours before murdering his sister and that he sexually molested her. Lee co-wrote the book with the help of writer Brian Whitney. The bone-chilling encounter, and over a dozen more intimate conversations between the two while Bennett was behind bars, are all detailed in Lee’s memoir, “ How Now, Butterfly?: A Memoir of Murder, Survival & Transformation” (WildBlue Press), which she co-wrote with the help of writer Brian Whitney, out Tuesday. ![]() I did kill her,” a pleased Paris Bennett, then 13, proudly declared to his horrified mom in March 2007. ![]() Charity Lee was visiting her teen son in jail when he blurted out the unthinkable: He brutally murdered his 4-year-old sister.
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