“I bet you didn’t think it was gonna turn out like this"
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February 4th, 2007 – it’s a quiet Super Bowl Sunday in Abilene, Texas, where Charity Lee Bennett is working a busy shift at the local bar, but at around midnight, cops arrive at the bar, demanding to speak with Charity. Just hours earlier, a 911 dispatcher received a frantic call from her 13 year old son Paris, saying he just found his younger sister Ella, covered in blood – with the babysitter nowhere to be found. As Charity rushes back home to her kids, she has no idea that she will be thrown into the most unthinkable and disturbing betrayal: what really happened to Ella that night, and what does Paris have to do with it?
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Charity has written a book, "How Now, Butterfly?" which is a memoir about her personal grief & healing journey: https://www.amazon.ca/How-Now-Butterfly-Survival-Transformation/dp/1948239647
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Credits:
Written, directed & edited by Matthew Rice
Researched by Bianca Yzabelle Tan
Voiceover by William Akana
Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader-
Sources:
Getty Images
The Family I Had, Motto Pictures, 2017
Inside Evil with Chris Cuomo: Murder in the Family, CNN, 2019
Charity Lee Interview, Solminod, 2012