The Murder of Ciara Paul - September 15 2025

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.6	When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:06.0	We have a weird homicide.
0:08.8	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
0:13.0	A cup of murder...
0:14.7	Sometimes it can take years before a suspect is found.
0:18.3	Other times, a suspect is one of the first things found in a case.
0:24.2	On September 15, 2021, a woman spent her final days on earth with her children and a man
0:31.5	who she thought she was safe with, a man who immediately became a suspect in her murder case.
0:38.9	So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning
0:45.0	cup of murder.
0:47.8	On September 16th, at about 7.30 p.m., police in Kent County, Michigan, got a call asking them to do a welfare check on a home in the 7,000 block of Canyon Place Drive.
1:00.2	The caller claimed the man living in the apartment, 29-year-old Jake Ryan had facetimed her, and on the call, he appeared to have bloodied hands and looked, quote, stabbed up.
1:15.0	He allegedly told the woman that he came home and found his girlfriend, 25-year-old Sierra Paul,
1:21.6	dead, and that her five-year-old daughter and two-year-old son were missing and that he was now heading to Georgia.
1:30.3	Police quickly made their way to the apartment and when they looked through the window,
1:34.4	they saw a large amount of blood covering the wall and floors.
1:39.6	This was enough to warrant their entry and lying there in the living room was Sierra Paul,
1:45.3	dead from multiple stab wounds.
1:48.5	They also found the two children inside the home, but did not immediately release their
1:52.9	conditions to the media.
1:55.0	It was later reported that they had significant cuts to their throats, but thankfully
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