True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Mother "Butchered" Her Twin Daughters with a Samurai Sword: THE TRAGIC MURDERS OF TORI AND LILY BALL
26 Mar 2025
On October 12, 2010, firefighters responded to a call at an apartment, rented by Monica McCarrick. When arriving to the scene, however, they found that 3 year old Tori and Lily ball were dead, and Monica was barely clinging to life. Turns out, Monica used a sword to murder her 2 young daughters, and attempted to take her own life. What could have caused this mother to commit such a disturbing act?
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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.
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.
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