Moms Who Murder | The Ocheltree Familicide, Oninda Romelus, & Dr. Tiffany Wilkes

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child. On average, according to FBI statistics, 450 children are murdered by their parents each year in the United States.

TW - child m*urder.

Despite having a seemingly perfect life on the surface, Paula Truong and her husband Thomas Ocheltree were having financial issues in 2025. Their businesses had been forced to close and their multi-million dollar house had been foreclosed on. In October 2025, Thomas’ brother became concerned when he could not get in touch with the family. He went to the home and found Paula, Thomas and their two young daughters deceased. Autopsy results are pending but media reports indicate that Paula was the perpetrator in this case.
Texas woman Oninda Romelus once appeared on the reality show ‘Paternity Court’ in an effort to determine who the father of her oldest son was. In October 2025, Oninda allegedly shot her four children and drove them to a gas station where she called 911. Two of the children passed and two survived. Oninda told authorities later that she had not called 911, that she had called the devil.
Anaesthetist Dr Tiffany Wilkes and her daughter Clementine (8) lived in Queensland, Australia. Tiffany’s mother passed away in recent years and Tiffany was said to be struggling with her mental health. In September 2025, Tiffany and Clementine checked into an Airbnb that cost $1,000 per night, and they never checked out. Tiffany sent a pre-scheduled email to a colleague that prompted a welfare check. When authorities went to the home, they found the bodies of the mother and daughter. Causes of death for the pair have not been released, but police have determined this was likely a murder-suicide.

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0:00.0	The True Crime Society podcast contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
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0:14.5	Thank you.
0:37.1	Thank you. What's up, guys, welcome back to another episode of the True Crime Society podcast with Stephanie and Olivia.
1:12.1	It is November 9th. I almost in October. November 9th, 2025. We're just flying through the year. The year's almost over. We're almost there. And it's just crazy times. If you are on Patreon, you will have seen that I talked about a little in the chat there, but just, you know, the struggles of being a new mom with a baby, not knowing anything. And just the chaos of it all. Of course, yesterday, Saturday, baby Jack, he's very passionate about clawing his face and rubbing his face aggressively.
1:17.3	And you know, babies have sharp, sharp little nails that no matter how much I file them,
1:18.5	they still seem to be sharp.
1:21.9	And of course, he's laying on his little mat.
1:25.4	I'm holding his mirror because he loves looking at himself and smiling at himself.
1:28.0	And I was actually Googling another question about, like like babies. So I wasn't looking directly at him. All of a sudden, he starts screaming,
1:34.0	crying. And I'm like, what are you, you're just looking at yourself? Like, what are you doing? What's
1:37.9	upset? What's wrong? It's not that bad. I was like, your reflection's not that bad.
1:42.8	So then I look at him and he's like, got all red like around his eye, like a red claw mark. And I was like, are you kidding me? So he's crying. He also has bad gas. So I'm like, he's crying because he's a gas. Do you scratch his face? Then I notice while he's crying and like he's awake, he won't open his eyes. Like he just has them closed. And and I'm like why are you opening your eyes please so I go I bring him to his little changing table because he likes to lay on there sometimes he's still like crying a little but he still just won't open his eyes but he's not closing them like tight like he's in pain they're just closed just won't open them I was like no. And as someone who has scratched their cornea, I have done this also.
2:20.9	And it's funny because when I did it, it was like July 4th or some holiday where I also had to go to the hospital for scratching my eye because it was a holiday.
2:31.3	So then he's crying.
2:33.3	He's upset.
2:34.5	Of course, it's Saturday.
2:35.5	So I call the doctor's office.
2:37.3	They're only open for like another hour.
2:39.0	So they told me you either go to like this pediatric ophthalmologist.
2:42.0	That was like an hour away from me or to just go to the ER to get antibiotics for him.
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