The unimaginable case of Francisca Monteiro-Balla

When Camille Balla calls a coworker and says "I think I killed my mother", the coworker calls 911 on her way to Balla's mother's house. Police find a scene straight out of a horror movie as the follow a blood splatter trail leading to the body of Francisca Monteiro-Balla. Checking the body for vitals an officer notices something on a box a few feet away. It isn't something anyone expects to see, two eyeballs, sitting on a box, appearing to watch the officers as they try to save the life of Francisca Monteiro-Balla.

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they take a close-up look at a case that is just as scary and strange at the beginning as it is in the end.

Transcript Highlights

00:01:26 Joseph Scott Morgan compares Lewis Powell screaming “I am Mad” to
Camille Balla screaming “I am a murderer”

00:02:50 Talk about Police arrive to scene and find woman’s eyes removed

00:04:05 Dave Mack breaks down story of Camille Balla calls co-worker and tells her “I think I killed my mother”

00:06:12 Talk about County Jail versus prison

00:08:05 Discussion about Camille Balla screaming “I’m a murderer”

00:10:08 Discussion of bloody crime scene, eyeballs removed from victim, placed on cardboard box

00:11:25 Describing difference between blood “spatter” and blood “splatter”

00:13:46 Discussion about victim’s injuries

00:16:01 Talk about the fight between mother and daughter, and eyeballs removed from victim

00:17:56 Joe describes removal of eyeball

00:20:37 Discussion of suspect removing eyes from the front

00:22:43 Talk about Camille Balla claims to have smoked marijuana laced with Flocka prior to attack on her mother

00:26:12 Discussion of charges being reduced from First-Degree Murder to Manslaughter

00:28:34 Talk about broken glass around scene, blood from perpetrator and victim co-mingled making thing forensically more complicated

00:29:06 Camille Balla pleaded guilty to manslaughter, sentenced to 15-years in prison followed by 15-years on probation.

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