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00:00She was in her room when she heard screaming between 2 and 2.30 a.m.
00:06She said that she locked herself in the room and heard the screaming just outside the door.
00:12All four victims had defensive wounds on their hands and wrists.
00:17It is very probable that the life-threatening injuries that they sustained
00:20killed them within a few hours of the incident.
00:24When Honolulu police got a call about a domestic disturbance on the morning of March 10, 2024,
00:30they had no idea they were about to uncover one of the most horrifying crime scenes in Hawaii's history.
00:36At first, when officers arrived at the quiet Manoa home, everything seemed normal.
00:41No signs of a struggle, no one answering the door, so they left.
00:45But then, the caller rang 911 again.
00:48When officers returned just 45 minutes later, a tenant inside the house let them in.
00:54And that's when they saw it.
00:56Five bodies.
00:57Paris Otta, his wife, Nako, and their three children, all brutally slipped to death in their own home.
01:05And the most chilling part?
01:06The person responsible for this massacre was the very man who was supposed to protect them.
01:11But what could drive a father to commit such an unthinkable crime?
01:14As investigators dug deeper, they uncovered a dark truth.
01:18One of financial ruin, desperation, and a twisted belief that if he couldn't escape his debt,
01:24neither could his family.
01:25But to understand how everything happened, let's start at the beginning.
01:30This tragic story took place in Manoa, a quiet, peaceful neighborhood in Honolulu.
01:36The kind of place where people feel safe and where families thrive.
01:40That's where 46-year-old Paris Otta lived with his wife, Na'ako, and their three kids, Sakurako, Orian, and Nana.
01:47Paris was a chiropractor with a practice near the Ala Moana Center, one of the biggest shopping malls in Hawaii.
01:54His wife, Na'ako, was originally from Japan and sometimes helped out at the clinic.
01:59Life seemed good for the Oda family.
02:01They were gearing up for Sakurako's high school graduation and weighing her college options, both in Hawaii and on the mainland.
02:08She was passionate about nursing and cooking.
02:11She and her mom even had helped run the Hapalua Marathon together in 2019, finishing just three places apart.
02:18Orian was in sixth grade at Sikhs Charter School, and Nana went to Manoa Elementary.
02:24Nana was on the shy side, but always looked out for others, while Orian was the playful, kind-hearted kid everyone adored.
02:31To their neighbors, the Otas were just a normal, happy family.
02:35Every Christmas, they would decorate their house for the holidays, bringing festive cheer to the neighborhood.
02:40Even at work, Paris was known as a devoted family man.
02:43One of his employees, Cammy Divers, recalled how much he loved his family.
02:48He would get up early morning to prepare their lunch and cook their breakfast, and he would let his wife sleep.
02:54I said, oh, you're such a good husband, you know, and dad.
02:59But then, something changed.
03:01In December 2024, the decorations never went up.
03:04That was the first red flag.
03:05Then, neighbors started noticing that the family just seemed off.
03:08One person even described them as looking sad.
03:11Paris' employees picked up on it, too.
03:13The once-friendly, upbeat chiropractor had started acting distant, moody, withdrawn.
03:19He barely smiled anymore.
03:20Even his patients picked up on it.
03:22Some of the patients had told me that, oh, what happened with Dr. Oda, you know, he kind of cried at the ladies like that.
03:29And I said, some of the patients, is it because of me?
03:32He said, I said, no, no, no, nothing to do with you.
03:35But even with these warning signs, no one could have imagined what happened next.
03:39On that Sunday morning of March 10, 2024, police got a chilling call.
03:44Someone had heard screams coming from the Oda home on Waluwa Place.
03:48Officers rushed to the house, arriving at 8.34 a.m.
03:51But when they got there, the caller was nowhere to be found.
03:55They knocked on the door, no answer.
03:57They listened closely, nothing.
03:59No more screams, no movement, just a heavy, unsettling silence.
04:03They even asked a neighbor if they had seen or heard anything unusual, nothing.
04:07But behind those closed doors, something horrific had already happened.
04:11One of the officers tried calling back the person who had dialed 911, hoping to get more information.
04:16But there was a problem.
04:17The call had come from an international number, and their system couldn't call it back.
04:21With no signs of forced entry, no visible threats, and no legal reason to enter the home, the officers had no choice but to leave.
04:28But 45 minutes later, at 9.15 a.m., the phone rang again, the same caller.
04:33This time, when the police returned to the Oda home, the caller was there, waiting for them outside.
04:38It was a woman, a tenant who had been renting a room in the house, and something was clearly wrong.
04:43Her hands trembled, her face was pale.
04:45She looked like she had just seen a ghost.
04:48She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself.
04:50And then, with a shaky voice, she told them what had happened.
04:53She had been asleep in her room when she was jolted awake by screams.
04:57Loud, panicked, blood-curdling screams.
05:00She checked the time, sometime between 2 and 2.30 a.m., and then they got louder and closer.
05:06The screams were coming from right outside her door, frozen in terror.
05:11She quickly locked herself in, too scared to move, too scared to even breathe.
05:15But then, she saw something that chilled her to the bone.
05:18Blood.
05:19A dark, thick pool of it sweeping under her door, spreading across the floor.
05:24She told officers that she was too terrified to open the door.
05:27And that's why she didn't come out the first time they arrived.
05:30Instead, she waited until she couldn't wait anymore.
05:32Then, climbed out of her window, and finally met with the police when she called again.
05:36Now, with this horrifying statement, the police rushed back to the house.
05:40They tried the front door, but it was locked.
05:42They pounded on it, shouting for anyone inside.
05:44No response.
05:45Peering through a window, they saw something that made their stomachs drop.
05:49A motionless body on the floor.
05:51And at that moment, they knew this was bad.
05:54Weapons drawn, they moved to the back door, forcing their way inside.
05:58And that's when they saw it.
05:59Officers entered through the back door and found the unresponsive male laying in blood in the hallway.
06:05He had wounds to the chest and was deceased.
06:08He was later identified as 46-year-old Paris Oda.
06:12As officers stepped over his body, they saw it.
06:14A kitchen knife still clutched in his stiff right hand.
06:18But the nightmare was just beginning.
06:20Officers moved cautiously through the house, clearing it room by room.
06:24And what they found was horrifying.
06:26In the first bedroom, a young girl lying on the floor drenched in red.
06:30Knife wounds covered her leg and upper body.
06:32She was later identified as 17-year-old Sakurako.
06:36Then, in the next room, officers discovered a young boy, lifeless in his bed.
06:41Knife wounds to his chest.
06:42This was 12-year-old Orion.
06:44The officers followed a trail of red to the master bedroom, where the scene grew even darker.
06:48Another child, face down, deep wounds carved into her back.
06:53That was 10-year-old Nana.
06:54And just behind the door, as if she had fought to protect them all until the very end,
06:59her mother, Naoko Oda, 48 years old, her body riddled with jab wounds.
07:04The crime scene left no doubt.
07:06Paris Oda was the killer.
07:08At some point during the night, something inside him snapped.
07:11He grabbed a kitchen knife and turned on his own family, attacking them in brutal, unimaginable
07:17acts of violence.
07:19And when it was all over, he ended his own life.
07:21A family that seemed so loving, normal, and happy, completely wiped out in a single night.
07:27The medical examiner's findings only made things more disturbing.
07:30Naoko and Saroko died from multiple sharp force injuries.
07:35Orion and Nana suffered fatal knife wounds to their torsos.
07:38And the most gut-wrenching part, they fought back.
07:41The autopsy revealed defensive wounds on their hands and wrists, proof that they had tried
07:46desperately to protect themselves.
07:48But Paris overpowered them.
07:50The police believe they succumbed to their injuries just hours after the attack.
07:54The timeline lined up exactly with what the tenant had reported.
07:57The horror unfolded around 2 or 2.30 a.m.
08:01A small memorial of flowers at the house where, less than 12 hours earlier, Honolulu police
08:07discovered the bodies of five people on Sunday morning.
08:10Husband is the person that, um, his wife and his three children.
08:15I think was pronounced dead at the scene.
08:18But then again, we'll have more information from the medical examiners.
08:21All that is still under investigation.
08:23Police say after the suspect killed his family, he turned the blade on himself.
08:27I don't know if domestic violence, we haven't had a history that, when we checked, so what
08:32the motive is, is still unclear at this point.
08:34The entire community was shaken to its core.
08:37Even law enforcement, who had seen their share of tragedies, called it the second worst mass
08:42murder in Honolulu in nearly 25 years.
08:45So I just got back in from, uh, a flight this morning, and, uh, my cousin who lives, or
08:52lives with me here, she just texted me and said a homicide had happened or something, yeah.
08:57This is, like, super quiet neighborhood that nothing ever happens here.
09:01Like, it's so quiet that you can, like, walk around at night and not care.
09:06I just know that they're a younger family.
09:09Um, they're friendly neighbors.
09:12No problems with them ever.
09:13So what could make a father commit such an unthinkable act against his own family?
09:18Paris had no criminal record.
09:19There was no history of domestic violence.
09:21By all accounts, he was a hardworking man, a loving husband, and a devoted father.
09:25So what went wrong?
09:28The truth behind this tragedy would be even more heartbreaking than anyone could have imagined.
09:35As investigators dug deeper, trying to piece together what led Paris to commit such a horrific
09:40act, one thing became clear.
09:42Money problems had been weighing on him for years.
09:45Paris had been drowning in financial struggles for a long time.
09:49He was behind on taxes, late on car and loan payments, and barely keeping his chiropractic
09:54business afloat.
09:55His financial troubles dated back to at least 2021, when the owners of his office building
10:00sued him and his company, Oda Ohana Chiropractic LLC, for nearly $90,000 in unpaid rent and fees.
10:09Court records showed that he had stopped paying rent in December 2017 and continued to rack up
10:14debt throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
10:16In the end, he settled the case in December 2021, agreeing to pay $53,000.
10:21During the pandemic, Paris had also received a $26,934 paycheck protection program loan to
10:29cover payroll for his four employees, a loan that was eventually forgiven.
10:33But the debt kept piling up.
10:35In June 2023, Paris and Naoko settled a state tax lien for $7,815.
10:43By December 2023, it was clear that he was desperate for cash.
10:47He listed his 2013 Ford truck for sale for $20,000 and even put up a treadmill for $800.
10:53Neighbors later told local media that the Oda family lived upstairs in their $1.7 million
10:58home while they rented out the downstairs unit to another family, who, by a twist of fate,
11:03had left for a trip to Japan just before the murders.
11:07Then, in January 2024, Paris reached out to a realtor about selling their home.
11:11Business at his chiropractic clinic had dried up, and to make ends meet, he had even started
11:16driving for Uber.
11:17He confided in a relative, telling them he felt it was his responsibility to fix things.
11:22He also shared his worries with his wife, and they tried making adjustments, but the
11:26financial problems just wouldn't go away.
11:28By February 2024, things had reached a breaking point.
11:31Paris told Naoko that he was thinking about ending his life, but he didn't want to do it alone.
11:36In the middle of February, Paris texted his wife that they needed to plan to do it.
11:45He said he could not take it anymore, and he told her that their children needed to come with
11:49them because no one could take better care of them than he could.
11:52Naoko, trying to stay hopeful, urged him to think of a different way out.
11:56She suggested they move to Japan, where her parents could help them start fresh.
12:00But for Paris, he had already given up.
12:02After that conversation, he pulled away.
12:05He became quiet, distant, like a man carrying terrible weight.
12:09That was the moment when everything shifted, when the years of stress, debt, and fear became
12:13too much to handle.
12:15Then came March, and with it, even more pressure.
12:18Tax season was creeping up, and Paris felt like he was running out of time.
12:22He spoke with a realtor again about selling their Manoa home, hoping to find a way out before
12:27things got even worse.
12:28But instead of relief, Paris' fear turned into something darker.
12:32He confided in relatives, saying something that sent chills down their spines.
12:37He would rather die than face the shame of going to jail over his unpaid taxes.
12:42And then, in a moment of pure desperation, he made a terrifying statement.
12:46He threatened to harm his own family and burn their house to the ground.
12:50And it didn't stop there.
12:51Around the same time, Paris reached out to someone with a chilling request.
12:55He wanted a gun.
12:56That person never responded, but as we already know, that didn't stop Paris from going through
13:00with his plan.
13:01Shocking details from police on why a Manoa father killed his family and then himself
13:06this past Sunday.
13:07Honolulu police say that Paris Oda had severe financial problems.
13:11He hadn't paid his taxes in years and was behind on car, tuition, and loan payments.
13:17Police say this January, Oda contacted a realtor about selling his house and started driving
13:22for Uber to make money since he didn't have enough chiropractic clients.
13:25He said he could not take it anymore and he told her that their children needed to come
13:30with them because no one could take better care of them than he could.
13:35Noopo Trap tried to be optimistic and encouraging with Paris.
13:39She suggested that they move to Japan with her parents, but Paris stated that he was done
13:44and too tired.
13:45In the aftermath of the tragedy, Hawaii News now spoke with Paris Oda's mother, Annette.
13:50Understandably, she was devastated, struggling to process the unthinkable loss.
13:55She shared that the family was in disbelief, wrestling with the reality of what had happened
14:00and wishing it wasn't real.
14:01When asked if there had been any warning signs, anything that could have hinted at what was
14:06coming, Annette declined to comment.
14:08Back at the family's home in Manoa, the community came together to mourn.
14:12Flowers, letters, and candles filled the growing memorial.
14:15At the top of the stairwell, a pink teddy bear was left in honor of the youngest victim,
14:2010-year-old Nana, with a heartbreaking note that read,
14:23We love you.
14:24Most of the people we talked to say they didn't know the family well, but are still devastated.
14:29One woman said she cried all day because of the tragedy.
14:33Neighbors say what happened doesn't make sense.
14:36Tragic.
14:38Everybody's feeling it, and everybody's just, it feels like part of your family.
14:45We go on our walks, we go down there, and we see the kids riding their bikes, skateboards
14:51in the neighborhood.
14:54So, yeah, it was just very normal.
14:57But one person says he sensed something was wrong.
15:01It didn't feel right seeing the kids walk past us throughout the week, making eye contact.
15:04To see something in their eyes, like they were sad, couldn't figure it out, and then
15:07seeing this on the news, just, it hurts.
15:11For those who knew Paris, the news was almost impossible to believe.
15:15They had never heard anything unusual from the home.
15:18No loud fights, no disturbances.
15:20Paris had seemed completely normal.
15:22One of his former chiropractic patients, Martha Randolph, was shaken.
15:26She described him as trustworthy, calm, and professional, so much so that she never once
15:31questioned her safety in his care.
15:32The realization that he was capable of such a horrific act left her reeling.
15:37In the wake of the tragedy, the schools where the children studied stepped up to help students
15:42and staff process their grief.
15:43Ilani School, where 17-year-old Sakurako was a student, sent out an email inviting the school
15:49community to come together, even holding a special early morning chapel service for those
15:54who needed comfort.
15:55Sikhs Charter School, where 12-year-old Orian attended, reached out to parents, letting them
16:00know that crisis counselors were available to support students.
16:04Manoa Elementary School, where 10-year-old Nana was a student, also provided a crisis intervention
16:09team to help the children cope with the loss of their classmate.
16:13Therapists like Britt Young, who specialized in helping families through trauma, stressed
16:17the importance of talking to children about what happened in an age-appropriate way.
16:21For younger children, like those in elementary and middle school, feelings of fear and uncertainty
16:26can be overwhelming.
16:28They might worry that if something like this could happen to another family, it could happen
16:32to them too.
16:32Parents can help by reassuring them and providing a sense of safety.
16:36For older kids, teenagers, and young adults, more open and honest conversations are important.
16:41Letting them ask questions, giving thoughtful answers, and simply being there to listen can
16:46help them process their emotions.
16:47But it's not just the kids who are struggling to come to terms with the tragedy.
16:51Even adults, whether they knew the Oda family or not, felt the weight of this loss.
16:55Tense reaction of anger, perhaps, and grief for perhaps a family you didn't even know.
17:01I'm so angry this could happen.
17:03Who would do that?
17:05So it's not like we're adults and we just handle it completely, you know, we process it
17:10without going to that angry place.
17:12It's normal to feel angry.
17:14It's normal to wonder who would do this.
17:16At the end of the day, no words can erase the pain of what happened.
17:20But by creating a space where children feel safe, heard, and supported, families can begin
17:24the long road to healing.
17:26So what do you think about this case?
17:28Do you believe anything could have been done to prevent this tragedy?
17:31Drop your thoughts in the comments.
17:32I would love to hear your perspective.
17:34And if you thought this story was chilling, trust me, there is more where that came from.
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