Charity LeeParis Lee Bennett and his younger sister Ella.My son is a monster, and because he is a monster, I have lost my daughter, Charity Lee wrote in her private journal. Less than a month earlier, on Feb. 4, 2007, her 13-year-old son Paris Lee Bennett had done the unthinkable: He had brutally murdered his 4-year-old sister Ella in the familys Abilene, Texas home. That wasnt all, though. In the hours before the fatal stabbing, Paris had been viewing graphic porn, searching for S&M, bondage, sadism, and snuff films. He would later reveal, to his mothers horror, that he had been sexually abusing his sister before killing her it was, in part, why he had committed the murder. If she was dead, she couldnt tell anyone about it. This was well beyond any parents worst nightmare. Why would anyone think that their own child could harbor such darkness? Paris Bennett did harbor darkness, though. And it didnt take long before his mother, and the world, came to know the full extent of the evil that dwelled within him. The truth was shocking and horrifying. Inside Charity Lees Troubled LifeCharity Lee hadnt had an easy journey. Growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, she had become addicted to heroin by the time she was 17 years old. Still, she was a bright student who graduated from high school with honors, later attending the University of Tennessee to study human ecology. During college, life grew even more complicated. She became sober, but found it difficult to deal with life without anything to take the edge off, as she put it in a 2017 interview, published in Good Housekeeping. She debated killing herself via overdose. Then, she discovered that she was pregnant. I finally had something to live for, something to look forward to, and I learned how to be happy, she recalled.Charity LeeCharity Lee, pictured with Paris Bennett shortly after he was born.In October 1993, she gave birth to her son Paris Lee Bennett, but it quickly became clear that her son would grow up without his father. As it turned out, Paris father was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and so Lee made the decision to cut off contact. After all, she had seen firsthand how turbulent relationships and marriages could disrupt lives. As Lee told the New York Post in 2020, back when she was just six years old, her own mother was charged with killing her father. Although her mother was later acquitted of the crime, the experience had certainly left a mark. Lee was determined to provide a better life for her child. She was sober, working odd jobs to pay for school, and getting by with some financial support from her family. At the end of it all, she graduated from college and eventually met the man who would become Ellas father. But addiction can be hard to kick, and for a period of six months, after Lee, Paris, and Ella had relocated to Texas, Lee ended up relapsing on cocaine. Paris, 11 years old at the time, knew about this by all accounts, he was a notably smart child. In fact, he was later found to have a genius IQ of 141.And aside from one incident in 2005, in which he broke a stick Ella had been playing with and then ran off after grabbing a knife, he didnt seem to have a violent or dangerous personality. Lee wrote she never, at any point, had any indication that he could kill. She and Paris argued from time to time, but it didnt seem to be anything other than typical mother-son tensions. Then, in 2007, Charity Lees life fell apart.Paris Bennetts Horrific Murder Of Ella BennettCharity Lee/The Family I Had/Investigation DiscoveryParis and Ella Bennett playing together.Charity Lee left for work around 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 4, 2007, leaving Paris and Ella Bennett in the care of a babysitter. She and Paris had an argument over how hed spent his allowance at the mall. She had kissed Ella goodbye. 2007, Charity Lee had determined, was supposed to be the year she turned her life around. A week prior, she had written a journal entry, which she shared in her memoir How Now, Butterfly?:My vow is to make 2007 better than 2006 I feel as though I finally remember who I am and what I can do. I am Charity. I know who I am. I know I am good. I know I am strong.When police arrived at her job at Buffalo Wild Wings to speak with her, she had no clue about the horror that transpired in her Abilene, Texas home. That night, the babysitter left our home without my consent, she recalled. Paris had somehow convinced the sitter it was time to leave. In her absence, Paris beat and attempted to strangle Ella. He ultimately stabbed her 17 times with a knife. She died, but not quickly, as Id later find out. Charity LeeParis and Ella Bennett.It wasnt the only thing shed later learn. Paris had not stabbed Ella in a frenzied or manic state of rage. He had been slow, methodical.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, Lee wrote in a 2010 journal entry. At the crime scene, semen was found on both Ella and the bed where Paris had killed her. After the murder, Paris had called 911 on himself, reporting that he accidentally killed somebody, which is how police discovered the gruesome murder scene. Of course, it was clear that it was no accident.Charity Lee had thousands of questions running through her mind, but one stood out above the others: Why had Paris done this? The answer was even more sinister than anyone could have thought. A Psychopath Who Wanted To Hurt His MotherCharity Lee/FacebookCharity Lee with Ella.Paris Bennett initially claimed that he killed Ella because of a hallucination that made her look like a demon, but he later admitted to investigators that he had planned his sisters murder. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison, the maximum for a juvenile murder conviction in Texas. Ella was the victim of Paris Bennetts sexual abuse and his murderous plot, but it wasnt just about hurting her it had also been about hurting his mother. And he had considered killing her too. He said the first reason he didnt go ahead with it was because it was a lot harder to kill someone than he thought, Lee said. The second reason was the realization if hed killed me, I only would have suffered for five, 10, 15 minutes. But, if he left me alive [without Ella], I would suffer for the rest of my life.When Lee went to visit her son in prison, she saw firsthand how violent he could be. He attacked her at one point, slamming a table into her and pinning her to a wall so forcefully she couldnt breathe. I know hes dangerous, Lee told the San Antonio Current. I know hes different. Doctors told Lee that Paris was a diagnosed psychopath.Inside Edition/YouTubeParis Bennett as an adult.Still, she visited him behind bars even after Paris tried filing for emancipation and after she read a letter he wrote to a counselor, in which he described killing Ella in detail and elaborated on his resentment toward his mother for her drug use. He also wrote that he wanted to see someone die. When Lee, crying, asked why he didnt just kill her instead, his response was startlingly detached: Goddamn it, Mom, just get over it already. Its been almost two years already. People die all the time.As the years have gone on, however, even Paris himself has had trouble explaining exactly why he ended up the way he did. Part of me loved my sister and would have turned the world upside down for her, Paris told Piers Morgan in a 2019 interview. But, he said, there was a part of him that was wounded, twisted, dark.Paris claimed that if he were released from prison early, he would have no desire to hurt anyone else. His mother said that she would be afraid. She has another child now too, a son named Phoenix. For a brief period of time, she allowed Phoenix to speak on the phone with Paris, but by 2021, she and Phoenix had both stopped communicating with Paris entirely.As Lee explained in a Facebook post: I completely walked away from my eldest child and have not looked back. It is one thing to be a child who makes horrible decisions. It is another thing altogether to be a 27-year-old man and keep making decisions that put your family at risk. The final straw was learning he was involved with a woman who lived 2 hours away from us and was out on bond for planning a mass shooting I finally accepted it is okay to love him as my son, but really dislike the man he has become.Paris Bennett is currently held in the Ferguson Unit in Madison County, Texas, and hes expected to be released in 2047, but hell be eligible for parole in 2027.After reading the shocking, dark story of Paris Bennett, read the equally disturbing story of Eric Smith, the bullied 13-year-old who violently killed a 4-year-old boy. Then, read the tragic story of Maddie Clifton, the 8-year-old girl murdered by her 14-year-old neighbor.The post The Horrifying Story Of Paris Bennett, The 13-Year-Old Who Fatally Stabbed His 4-Year-Old Sister appeared first on All That's Interesting.

Constana Museum of National History and Archaeology/FacebookAn archaeologist documents one of the 34 graves uncovered near the Constana Municipal Hospital site in Romania.A hospital in Constana, Romania, was recently slated to undergo major upgrades, but because of its location on the perimeter of an ancient necropolis, archaeologists were called in to excavate the construction site and they made a remarkable discovery.Beneath the soil, workers uncovered 34 graves from the Roman era, some of which were located in catacombs and held multiple bodies. The burials also included artifacts like jewelry, glassware, and even part of an exceptionally rare parade shield. These extraordinary finds are revealing more than ever before about life in Tomis, the ancient city upon which Constana was built.Construction Work Reveals A Roman-Era Necropolis In RomaniaAccording to a statement from the Constana Museum of National History and Archaeology, archaeologists uncovered these tombs while excavating the area surrounding Constana Municipal Hospital, which is currently undergoing upgrades. Because the hospital is known to stand near a Roman necropolis, experts carried out a series of digs ahead of the relocation of the buildings utilities.In all, the excavations revealed 34 burials dating back to at least the third century C.E., some 200 years before the fall of Rome. Archaeologists also unearthed an intact set of tile stairs leading down into catacombs, along with a trove of well-preserved grave goods.Constana Museum of National History and Archaeology/FacebookThe tile stairs leading to the Roman catacombs in Tomis.These artifacts included jewelry, coins, glassware, and even amphorae from North Africa, revealing evidence of trade between the furthest reaches of the Roman Empire. These finds alone would have been incredible enough, but two other discoveries stood out above the rest.The first was a stone slab inscribed in Greek. It was seemingly a fragment from a sarcophagus or grave marker that was reused when building the necropolis, and it detailed an association to a deity whose name has since broken off of the slab.The second especially notable artifact was an umbo, the raised, round piece of metal at the center of a shield. The umbo uncovered at Constana was seemingly part of a ceremonial parade shield, which the museum called extremely rare.Constana Museum of National History and Archaeology/FacebookThe umbo, the center of an ancient parade shield, uncovered among the ruins of Tomis.This necropolis and the treasures found within it were all part of the ancient city of Tomis, an initially Greek settlement with a long and poetic history.The History Of Ancient Tomis, Site Of Ovids ExileConstana, located on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea, is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Romania. Greek colonists first settled there around 600 B.C.E., dubbing the site Tomis.Over the next six centuries, Tomis continued to grow as it underwent major changes, transforming from an oligarchy to a democracy. Then, in 29 B.C.E., the city was captured by the Romans, and it became part of their ever-expanding empire.In 8 C.E., the poet Ovid, who is best known for his Metamorphoses, was exiled to Tomis by Emperor Augustus. The reasons for the banishment are unclear, but scholars have speculated that the ruler disliked Ovids scandalous Ars Amatoria, which mocked Augustus moral reforms. Others believe that the poet discovered that the emperor had committed incest with his daughter or granddaughter.Public DomainOvid Among the Scythians by Eugne Delacroix, a 19th-century painting depicting Ovids exile in Tomis.Regardless of the cause, Ovid arrived in Tomis in his early 50s. He hated the city, and he documented his woes in a series of poems published as the Tristia. In one entry titled The Rigours of Tomis, he laments, I am living in the midst of the barbarian world The snow lies continuously, and once fallen, neither sun nor rains may melt it.Later in the poem, Ovid describes Tomis naked fields, leafless, treeless a place, alas! No fortunate man should visit. This then, though the great world is so broad, is the land discovered for my punishment!Ovid died in Tomis in 17 or 18 C.E., and his statue still stands in Constana to this day.Over the subsequent centuries, Tomis changed hands numerous times, falling under the rule of the Second Bulgarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire before the Romanian War of Independence in the late 19th century. And as the ancient buildings crumbled, new structures were erected, covering the history beneath them.Constana Museum of National History and Archaeology/FacebookA slab uncovered during excavations is inscribed in Greek and dates to the third century C.E.Indeed, much of Tomis has yet to be excavated, as the modern city of Constana covers it. As such, this archaeological discovery at the Constana Municipal Hospital is providing a rare peek at the ancient city that saw everything from Greek colonization to Roman rule to the death of Ovid.After reading about the Roman-era necropolis and artifacts uncovered in Romania, go inside the chilling story of Vlad the Impaler, the Wallachian ruler who may have inspired Dracula. Then, discover some of the myths recorded by Ovid in Metamorphoses, such as the legend of the Minotaur.The post Hospital Construction In Romania Just Turned Up A Staircase Leading Down Into Ancient Roman Catacombs Containing 34 Graves appeared first on All That's Interesting.

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