Did Lewis Bennett Murder His Wife, or is She Lost at Sea?! The Case of Isabella Hellman
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Who was Isabella Hellman and how did she meet Lewis Bennett?
Isabella Hellman was born as Lou Stella Isabella Rodriguez in Bogota, Colombia in November of 1975, and at some point in the 1990s, she moved from Colombia to Florida in the US. When she first moved to the US, she wanted to go to college, but she spoke no English, she had a very thick accent, and after taking some English classes, she decided instead to get a job and start working immediately.
She settled in Palm Beach County, Florida, and she became an American citizen.
She was described as being fun-loving, open-minded, and wanting to live in the moment. By February of 2002, Isabella married her first husband, William Hellman.
The two were married for 10 years before they filed for divorce in 2012. The divorce was then finalized in August of 2014. I don't know a lot about the previous marriage or who William was or why their marriage ended. There's not really a lot of information on that aspect of this. But either way, at some point in 2014, Isabella had met a man online named Louis Bennett. Lewis Bennett was born in April of 1977 in Dorset, England, and at some point during his childhood, he moved to Australia. He went to a Bangor University in Wales and then at Camborne School of Mines. He then went on to work in mining for a few years after that. By May of 2011, Lewis started his own business called Next Generation Solar, which was a solar panel company in Australia.
Then, by August of 2015, Lewis registered Next Generation Solar in Florida and he started practicing business there. When Isabella and Lewis first met, again, they originally met online, A friend of Isabella's said that their relationship started as a fling and it was pretty much only online. Louis never was in Florida, mostly spending his time in Australia. But soon after the two started their fling, things got more serious. But even once things were more serious, Louis would never really come visit Isabella. She was always the one who flew out to meet up with him in different places. She flew out to Southampton, England to meet his parents. Then he would be working at various ports in various areas, such as in Tadi and Singapore, and so she would fly out to meet him there.
Now, also going back to November of 2013, Lewis had purchased a 37-foot catamaran in St. Martine in the Caribbean. Then he eventually registered his boat to Australia where he lived. So him being on that boat, he sailed the open seas as much as he could. He worked at different places. So that's sort of why he was always traveling around to all of these different places. But it's not really known how Isabella was able to afford to make these different trips or how Louis afforded to go to all these different places either. This is something that we will discuss a little bit more later on, but at the same time, it was strange to those around them that Isabella was able to afford all of this travel. So friends and family members would ask her and all Isabella knew was that Louis told her that he had some family money coming in.
So that is how he was able to afford the lifestyle that he lived. Either way, by July of 2016, Isabella and Louis had their daughter who they named Amelia. Isabella was so excited for the birth of her daughter and she had always wanted to be a mother. However, after the baby was born, it seemed that there was a lot more stress placed on the relationship between Isabella and Louis, which is very expected when a couple has their first child. There's obviously going to be more stress, They're going to have to compromise on different things that they've never had to even talk about before. There's a lot of new things that happen and a lot of issues can arise. But it seemed to be even more so between Isabella and Louis.
Isabella wanted to raise her daughter following Colombian traditions such as piercing her ears, getting her an identity bracelet, and getting her a teething necklace. But Louis didn't agree. He wanted to raise her following his own traditions. They would argue about every little thing on how to raise their daughter from what she would eat, what she needed to eat, and even what diaper she wears.
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