Mother "Butchered" Her Twin Daughters with a Samurai Sword: THE TRAGIC MURDERS OF TORI AND LILY BALL
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What is the tragic story of Tori and Lily Ball?
Hello everyone, my name is Rachel and welcome back to another true crime video.
So the case that I have for you all today is definitely a very tragic case. It's really awful how this entire thing was able to happen, and I do feel like things could have been done to prevent it. There is also an element to this case of whether or not the person responsible could be held accountable for her actions because of mental health, So I'm really looking forward to hearing what all of you think about this case after hearing the details. Today we are going to be discussing the tragic murders of Tori and Lily Ball. Tori Ball and her twin sister Lily Ball were born on September 12, 2007 in San Diego, California to Monica McCarrick and Michael Ball. These twins were known to be loving, sweet, and full of life.
As twins, they had a special bond that only a twin could understand. But the girls were born into a rough life from the start. Monica, their mother, had always struggled with mental health and drug use for basically her entire life. When Monica was 12 years old in 1995, Monica was hospitalized for self-inflicted wounds and suicidal ideation, as well as intoxication.
What were Monica's struggles leading up to the tragedy?
At 12 years old, she had already started drinking alcohol. This was nothing new, though, as she had been self-harming from even a younger age. Then, by the age of 14 years old, Monica was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder and was prescribed medication to treat it. However, it appears that Monica may have been actually misdiagnosed, which I think is pretty common with these types of disorders that Monica had, unfortunately. So sometime between 2003 and 2005, she had been diagnosed with major depressive disorder. It seems to me that a lot of times adults with undiagnosed ADHD may be wrongly diagnosed as depressed, and some adults with depression may present as having ADHD and be prescribed medications that are not suitable for them. So, by the age of 12, Monica started using drugs and alcohol to cope with her mental health issues.
She started using weed, LSD, mushrooms, ecstasy, and by age 14, she was using cocaine, and then by the age of 18, she was using methamphetamine. From the age of 18 and well into her adult life, Monica continued using meth. She claimed that she didn't use it while pregnant with her twins, but that's just her word. I don't know what to believe. At this point, after we get through more of the details in this video, you guys can make your own assumptions about what really happened. But either way, according to Monica, she used meth almost every day from the time that she was 18. until she was 25 years old. Because of the drug use, Monica became paranoid, she would act out, and sometimes she could even be violent with Michael.
There were claims of domestic abuse throughout their relationship. She had been arrested on several occasions for drug use and domestic violence as well. So because of her severe issues with drugs and accompanying mental health issues, her relationship with Michael, the father of her children,
How did Monica's mental health issues manifest?
did not last so about a year or so after the twins were born by 2009 Michael and Monica split up after the breakup Monica moved from California to Pennsylvania for a change of scenery there she lived with one of her aunts and things seemed to be pretty calm for a period while she lived there it was a new change in pace and things were going really well for her and her children But in November of 2009, Monica had been on Facebook when she reconnected with an old friend of hers who was living back in California. This man was Robert Paulson, who had a pretty rough history of his own. Robert had previously been dating a woman named Jill. And I believe the two were broken up when Robert and Monica started talking again.
But after the breakup and after Monica and Robert started talking again, in April of 2010, Jill took her own life. She had actually used one of Robert's guns to shoot herself. So obviously this was very tragic and devastating for Robert to go through. So Robert and Monica continued their relationship long distance until May of 2010 when they became engaged.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the tragic story of Tori and Lily Ball?
0:00–1:36
2
What were Monica's struggles leading up to the tragedy?
1:36–3:40
3
How did Monica's mental health issues manifest?
3:40–11:10
4
What events led to Monica's alarming behavior?
11:10–25:31
5
What happened on the day of the murders?
25:31–46:32
6
What did first responders find at the crime scene?
46:32–48:57