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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

THE FAMILY I HAD-Katie Green

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

On February 5th, 2007 Charity Lee Bennett was working her shift at Buffalo Wild Wings in Abilene Texas when two police officers came to inform her that her 4 year-old daughter Ella was dead and her 13 year-old son Paris had killed her. He had convinced the babysitter she could go home and afterwards entered the room of his sister. She was beaten and strangled and stabbed 17 times. Paris first called his school friend and then 8 minutes later called 911.

On March 20th, 2018 FilmRise released the chilling documentary The Family I Had, which recounts the tragic and unimaginable story of Charity Lee Bennett and how a family struggles to move forward. Part true-crime, part mystery— Charity Lee, mother of both the victim and killer , relives her agony and her journey of love 10 years later in this feature documentary that also presents multiple and conflicting accounts leaving the audience questioning where the ultimate truth and accountability lie. THE FAMILY I HAD: An Engrossing Look At An Unthinkable Crime--Katie Green

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about the most shocking and infamous killers in true crime history. True murder with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufanski.

1:15.0

Good evening. On February 5, 2007, Charity Lee Bennett was working her shift at Buffalo Wild Wings in

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Abelene, Texas when two police officers came to inform her that her four-year-old daughter Ella was dead

1:30.0

and her 13-year-old son, Paris, had killed her. He had convinced the babysitter she should go home and afterwards entered the room of a sister.

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She was beaten and strangled and stabbed 17 times.

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A March 20, 2018 film rise released the chilling documentary The Film The Family I Had, which recounts the tragic and unimaginable story of Charity Lee Bennett and how a family struggles to move forward.

1:57.0

Part true crime, part mystery, Charity Lee, mother of both the victim and killer, relives her agony and her journey of love 10 years later in this feature documentary that also presents multiple and conflicting accounts, leaving the audience questioning where the ultimate truth and accountability lie.

2:16.0

A documentary featuring this evening is The Family I Had, an engrossing look at an unthinkable crime with my special guest, producer, director and filmmaker Katie Green. Welcome to the program and thank you very much for agreeing to this interview Katie Green.

2:34.0

Hi. Thank you. It's good to be here.

2:38.0

Thank you very much. Very powerful documentary. Let's get to you co-produce this and directed this with a partner. Tell us about your partner and tell us about the genesis of this. How long ago did you plan you and your partner to do this? Tell us a little bit about the beginnings of The Family I Had.

3:01.0

Sure. Well, yeah, I'm one half of a co-directing team, the other half-college, Ruben and I have been working together for almost I think 10 years now.

3:14.0

So we first, they're right to together on our first documentary called The Death Mother's Club, which looked at women who lost their mothers when they were young and looking at the following them, throwing various crossroads of their life and looking at how they were dealing with that.

3:31.0

And it was towards the end of that. I think the song was complete when we became very interested in juvenile justice and I think at the time there was a lot of stuff going on in the Supreme Court with the end of juvenile life for that role.

3:46.0

And there was lots of stuff that was very interesting, grabbing our attention. And we actually threw another partner, sort of brother company of ours, and there was doing another documentary on Death Mother's Club.

3:59.0

He came across charity, he'd written a blog on juvenile justice. And we really loved the way that she wrote and really fascinated by her.

4:09.0

And as we learned more about the other foundation, we found out her personal story. So we immediately called her up and said, look, we're interested in this, you know, I understand you have a son in prison and she just was really open to talking to us straight away.

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