THE OCHELTREE/TRUONG MURDER-SUICIDE
Thomas Ocheltree (57), his spouse Paula Truong (53) and their two daughters Alexandra (12) and Mackenzie (9) have been discovered lifeless of their multi-million greenback San Francisco dwelling on October 5, 2025.
Paula immigrated to the US from Vietnam and she or he married Thomas in 2006. Thomas had a Bachelor’s of Utilized Artwork and Design from Cal Poly State College.
Early on of their relationship, the couple bought funding properties at one level within the Mission space of San Francisco. They lived in an residence upstairs within the constructing and so they leased out the bottom flooring to a restaurant.
The couple had lived of their neighborhood for over a decade.
The couple bought their dwelling for 1.35m in 2014 and it’s now valued at round $2.2m.
Neighbors described the household as non-public however pleasant. Subsequent-door neighbor Belinda Hanart admitted to realizing little or no concerning the household, regardless of having three children shut in age to their very own. “We may hear the children within the backyard,” she mentioned. “We may hear once they have possibly dinner outdoors within the backyard.”
The world is described by the San Francisco Commonplace as being ‘an prosperous, low-crime neighborhood.’
Paula’s accountant of 15 years, Paul Bleeg, described her as a “very pushed and achieved entrepreneur.” She was mentioned to be the driving pressure behind all of the household’s enterprise ventures.
Paul had purchased an auto dismantling enterprise earlier than transferring into the enterprise of repairing European Automobiles. She rebranded her enterprise as Zentrum Motors.
The couple ran an artwork gallery and occasion area named Tessera for a time frame earlier than it closed down.
In 2014, Thomas launched his personal design firm, Ocheltree Design, which specialised in branding and packaging for wine, beer and liquor.
Different companies that the couple owned through the years embody a coffeeshop enterprise referred to as Orbit Espresso. Paula advised the Sprudge espresso weblog in 2022 that she created Orbit as a result of ‘I by no means felt I may take my kids to a espresso store.’
The corporate additionally targeted on sustainability and had a mission to ‘not solely present one of the best espresso we will, however to be one of the best for the local weather, the crop and this planet.’
Orbit closed its three places in Could 2023, saying on its Instagram web page that ‘we’re engaged on one thing new and might be again earlier than you realize it.’ However the retailers by no means reopened.
In 2017, Paula transferred possession of the home to a enterprise entity that she operated utilizing the deal with of Zentrum Motors. That entity paid off the money owed earlier than taking an extra $1.8 million in financing from Cathay Financial institution, in accordance with property information.
By 2019, Paula had taken out loans totalling greater than $2.7m, together with $500,000k in loans from non-public people. One originated from Nationwide Fleet Wholesale, a used-car wholesale dealership in Southern California. A yr later, the corporate loaned Paula an extra $260,000.
In 2020, in addition they bought a deli/comfort retailer close to their dwelling. They remodeled the enterprise right into a high-end liquor and wine retailer named Starr Spirits. This turned out to be a nasty enterprise choice and it closed in 2023. California tax officers recorded over $47,000 in gross sales liens towards the corporate, information confirmed.
The previous proprietor of the deli, Almir Zalihic, mentioned, “They only raised the costs and scared away all of the locals. They made it look very good inside, but it surely simply didn’t work for the residential neighborhood.”
Across the time that they bought the deli, the couple stopped paying their accountant’s invoices. Paul Bleeg mentioned they ‘went radio silent.’ “She was already a number of years late in paying us. I obtained phrase from my superiors that I can’t do any extra work for her,” he mentioned.
In March 2022, the couple took out a $2.24 million second mortgage on their dwelling and so they defaulted on that. By late 2024, their dwelling was being foreclosed upon. The couple tried to delay the general public public sale of the house but it surely was bought to a monetary firm in November 2024 for $2.05m. It’s thought that the corporate will need to have been leasing the house again to the household.
In January 2025, Paula was sued by her bank card firm. Superior Court docket information present that Uncover Financial institution sought to get better $17,716 from Paula after a missed cost on the finish of final July. In a choose’s default ruling on April 18, 2025, Paula was ordered to pay in full, including $441 in prices, for a complete of $18,157.26.
Within the Spring of 2025, Paula exhibited some habits that was referred to as each ‘alarming and mundane’. Paula emailed a reporter from the San Francisco Commonplace named Garrett Leahy with a tip. Paula claimed that when Alexandra was within the fourth grade in 2023, a pupil in one other class tried to poison a toddler. Paula mentioned the college had tried to cowl up the incident and preserve it quiet.
The reporter went to the household’s dwelling on Could 1. Paula additionally claimed then {that a} mother or father had been filming kids on the playground at Sundown Elementary.
When the reporter arrived, Paula was making cookies.
A instructor from Sundown Elementary was additionally on the dwelling. Paula has requested the instructor to talk with the reporter due to detrimental interactions that Paula had with the alleged filming mother or father. A screenshot of a report from Sundown Elementary that Paula texted the reporter mentioned there was “no proof of inappropriate … videotaping of youngsters on the schoolyard.”
The reporter was about to depart the house. Paula requested if he wish to hear about a difficulty that Alexandra was having with a instructor on the college. The reporter agreed and Alexandra and Thomas each got here into the room. Thomas then mentioned they weren’t focused on talking till after the college performed an investigation.
At 10.51pm that evening, Paula messaged the reporter and claimed that the alleged filmer was armed. She expressed concern about her household’s security. She despatched the identical message once more half-hour later.
Over the next three days, Paula emailed the reporter greater than 100 instances. The final textual content she despatched mentioned “thanks !!! for shinning gentle for individuals who won’t have a voice or don’t know .”
The reporter was not in a position to corroborate any of Paula’s tales so didn’t pursue a narrative.
In September 2025, the town’s public well being division issued a discover final month indicating that the Ocheltree’s deal with was delinquent in its rubbish assortment charges.
In October 2025, Alexandra was a pupil at A.P. Giannini Center College, and Mackenzie was attending Sundown Elementary.
On October 6, 2025, Thomas’ brother Robert Ocheltree grew to become nervous after he couldn’t get in contact with the household. He went to their dwelling in San Francisco. He mentioned the blinds have been closed and Paula got here to the door.
Paula didn’t invite Robert in, which he thought was unusual. She mentioned that Thomas was touring again from a golf match in Monterey and that he had misplaced his cellphone.
The next day, Robert obtained a textual content from Paula which learn “please assist me with Thomas at present? He’s not himself, and the women and I are scared.”
On Wednesday October 8, Robert referred to as police and requested for a welfare test. No one got here to the door when officers arrived on the home.
By this level, Robert was beside himself with fear. He broke into the house by shattering a glass door pane with pliers at round 1.30pm on Wednesday.
Robert discovered the our bodies of the youngsters of their beds. That they had been partially coated up. One of many women reportedly had a pink foam-like substance popping out of her mouth. Thomas was additionally present in mattress. He was mentioned to have a swollen face and a ‘blood-like’ substance round his head.
Paula was discovered deceased, hanging within the storage.
Neighbors famous that the rubbish and recycling bins belonging to the house have been introduced out to the curb however by no means introduced again in, as they usually would have been on Monday. It has been steered that this implies Thomas and the women may have been lifeless in the home for days earlier than Paula took her personal life.
‘We’re devastated. Thomas Ocheltree and his stunning daughters are the actual victims right here. They performed no half on this tragedy,’ a member of the family advised KGO-TV.
No public obituary has been printed for Paula. Thomas and his daughters have a joint obituary.
Thomas (T.R.), Alexandra and MacKenzie Ocheltree
09/19/1968 – 10/05/2025
Thomas Russell Ocheltree, Alexandra Grace Ocheltree and MacKenzie Louann Ocheltree left this earth in early October, 2025. They departed manner too quickly and might be ceaselessly in our hearts.
Thomas Russell (T.R.) Ocheltree was born in Napa, CA September nineteenth, 1968. He grew up in Napa the youngest of six kids. He was a really beloved member of our household who had many life lengthy mates. Above all he was an exquisite, variety and attentive father to his beloved daughters, Alex and MacKenzie.
Alexandra Grace Ocheltree was born June 3, 2013 in San Francisco. She was a form, candy younger girl who liked college, arts and crafts and crochet. She attended A. P. Giannini Center College in San Francisco.
MacKenzie Louann Ochetree was born on March 8, 2016 in San Francisco. She liked taking part in with mates and her beloved pet, Mango. She attended Sundown Elementary College in San Francisco.
They’re survived by T.R.’s mom and Alex and MacKenzie’s grandmother, Lou Ann Ocheltree. Further survivors embody brother Bob Ocheltree (Charise Ocheltree), sister Ann Kading (Kent Kading), sister Sue Sarka (Greg Sarka), sister Patty Finney (Gary Finney), 9 nieces and nephews and three nice nephews and one nice neice. T. R. is preceded in dying by his sister, Kathy Ocheltree and father, James (Jim) Ocheltree.
T. R.’s household needs to thank the SFPD and coroner’s workplace for his or her tough work and help of our household. We additionally want to thank the members of the family and fantastic circle of mates who’ve come to our help. Thanks to Graham-Hitch Memorial Middle.
A celebration of life ceremony might be held on a date, time and place to be decided.
In lieu of flowers or different presents, the household needs that donations be made to the women college’s or your native home violence prevention group.
THE CASE OF ONINDA ROMELUS
Oninda allegedly shot her 4 kids whereas they sat in a automotive – two of them sustained deadly accidents.
The ages of Oninda’s kids are 13, 9, 8 and three. The 2 kids who handed away are O’Karreo Covington (13) and Amourra Chapell (3).
Oninda was dwelling in Porter, Texas on the time of the shootings. She had beforehand appeared on Paternity Court docket, a courtroom TV collection that targeted on all-things household, starting from questions on paternity to tales involving DNA.
Oninda’s episode aired nearly 12 years in the past. She mentioned on the time that she had been concerned with two males on the time she fell pregnant with O’Karreo. This data concerning the episode is from Individuals:
Her accomplice Dewayne Seymore claimed she engaged sexually with one other man, Jeremy Covington, the identical time she conceived O’Karreo, which Romelus admitted.
Neither of the lads proved to be the daddy of then 18-month-old O’Karreo.
In April 2022, Oninda was arrested in Georgia and was charged with misdemeanor DUI of Medication, Failure to Keep Lane and Possession of Marijuana lower than 1 ounce.
In response to Fayette County courtroom information, it seems Oninda entered a responsible plea on the DUI cost and the opposite two expenses weren’t prosecuted underneath “nolle prosequi”.
On October 4, 2025, Oninda drove to the Oasis fuel station in Angleton, Texas. She referred to as 911 at round 4.45am . She would later inform authorities that she didn’t name 911, and that she ‘referred to as the satan.’
Regardless of this, Oninda advised authorities to come back to the fuel station.
Surveillance video and a receipt from the fuel station present that Oninda purchased $56 price of fuel whereas on the cellphone, in accordance with courtroom paperwork.
When authorities arrived, they discovered the 4 kids had been shot. The 8 and 9 year-old kids have been airlifted to a hospital in Houston, and so they have been recovering.
This data concerning the scene is from KHOU – we have now redacted the names of the surviving kids for his or her privateness.
Brazoria County deputies rushed to the scene and located 4 kids who’d been shot inside a automobile. O’Karreo Covington, a 13-year-old boy, died from a gunshot to the top within the entrance passenger seat. Three-year-old Amourra Chapell died within the backseat. 9-year-old Kylee Romelius was shot within the aspect and arm and 8-year-old Traviel Downer was shot within the arm. They have been flown by Life Flight to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. Each kids have been speaking with BCSO investigators.
One notice from that excerpt is that all the kids have totally different final names.
In Rangercast audio from the capturing scene, a deputy advised investigators, “We want a number of, MULTIPLE ambulances.”
They started performing emergency help to the victims whereas ready for Life Flight.
“We’re doing first help, we’re doing every thing we will.”
A girl might be heard screaming within the background because the deputy described the scene to the dispatcher.
“Brazoria County deputies responded to an unthinkable, unimaginable tragedy,” Sheriff Bo Stallman mentioned later at a information convention.
“It’s unimaginable to make sense of a mindless tragedy like this. However we’ll do every thing we will to hunt justice for these kids,” the sheriff mentioned.
Oninda was taken for questioning. When she was requested about why she had referred to as 911, she mentioned “As an alternative of them doing it to me, I’m gonna do it to them.”
When the investigator requested, “do what?,” she said, “kill all of them,” in accordance with courtroom paperwork.
This data concerning the questioning is from Fox26 Houston:
She additionally reportedly mentioned that she was able to work, which the investigator mentioned didn’t make sense.
The investigator requested Oninda if she had any kids, and she or he reportedly mentioned, “Uhm.” When the investigator requested her what number of children she had, courtroom paperwork state that she named her 4 kids and their ages.
The investigator requested the place the youngsters have been. In response to courtroom paperwork, Oninda said that they have been with the “satan.”
The investigator requested what she meant by that, and Oninda mentioned, “they’re lifeless,” courtroom paperwork state.
When the investigator requested what she meant by that, she mentioned, “trigger you’ll be able to’t take me with out me taking you,” courtroom paperwork state.
In response to courtroom paperwork, she additionally said that her kids have been lifeless to her.
Police went to go looking Oninda’s dwelling as they knew she has one other baby – a 17 y/o son. They broke down the door of the house, however the teenager was not there on the time. In response to Click2Houston, as of October 7, ‘it stays unclear the place he’s proper now.’
Through the search, electronics and ammunition have been seized. Detectives additionally seen a considerable amount of social safety playing cards and different paperwork that raised suspicion of legal exercise. These paperwork have been outdoors the scope of the search warrant.
One other warrant was issued and police then seized 33 social safety playing cards, 48 identification playing cards and 16 bank cards, together with different gadgets.
The search warrant says detectives noticed the social safety and identification playing cards had the identification of quite a few totally different people. A few of the identification playing cards had Oninda’s photograph on them, however the names have been of various individuals.
Most of the social safety playing cards and treasury checks had been issued to her deal with, however had different individuals’s names on them.
A number of delivery labels, telephones, computer systems, laptops, printers and different units used “in the midst of creating fraudulent items of figuring out data,” have been additionally discovered within the workplace of the house, in accordance with the warrant.
Melissa Lanford, Texas Division of Household and Protecting Companies Spokesperson, mentioned, “Little one Protecting Companies is investigating this case and ensuring that the security and well-being of the surviving kids is our first precedence. Ms. Romelus has had contact with CPS on one different event. Particulars of that interplay are confidential however might be included in a public Little one Fatality Report when our investigation is full.”
Oninda has been charged with two counts of homicide and two counts of aggravated assault with a lethal weapon, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned of their assertion. She is being held on a $14 million bond.
One neighbor, who didn’t need to be recognized, later spoke to the media concerning the household. She mentioned a few of Oninda’s kids would stroll previous the neighbor’s home.
“He all the time waves, and we inform him hello, and so they come again by, and I’ve a little bit Yorkie, and typically she’ll cease and ask if she will be able to pet the pet, and so she’ll come up and pet the pet and stuff,” the neighbor mentioned. “Seeing them Friday, they have been comfortable, and on their manner telling us hello and bye, and figuring I might see them once more Monday afternoon.”
The neighbor mentioned she by no means noticed any crimson flags.
“They seemed like simply comfortable kiddos. Nothing out of the abnormal in any respect,” she mentioned. “Simply heartbreaking to suppose that something might be so dangerous that you need to take your kids’s life. I don’t perceive.”
THE MURDER-SUICIDE OF DR TIFFANY WILKES AND HER DAUGHTER CLEMENTINE
Dr Tiffany Wilkes (54) and her daughter Clementine (8) have been discovered lifeless in a multi-million greenback property in Brisbane, Queensland on September 29, 2025. Their deaths have been dominated a murder-suicide.
Tiffany was a distinguished anaesthetist who labored at a number of hospitals throughout Brisbane, together with the Princess Alexandra.
Little is thought about Clementine’s father.
Tiffany completed her medical diploma with the College of Queensland in 2000 but additionally had a Bachelor of Legal guidelines and Bachelor of Arts.
Tiffany labored for greater than a yr on the Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge within the UK. She then joined Queensland Well being in January 2012.
Tiffany was one among 20 Australians who mentored 5 younger indigenous individuals on a visit to Antarctica in 2014.
Jane Ewing was a mentor on the identical journey and mentioned whereas she’d misplaced contact together with her lately, she was shocked by the information.
“I couldn’t have imagined something like this taking place in any respect.”
One other participant on the journey, Nicholas Kotrotsos, recalled receiving useful recommendation from the physician.
“They did polar plunge dives on the journey, and she or he suggested me towards it due to my medical historical past,” he mentioned.
Round 22, Tiffany purchased a townhouse in Norman Park in Queensland for $1.27m. The mom and daughter by no means lived within the property.
In January 2023, Tiffany wrote on social media about Clementine’s sixth birthday.
She mentioned that her daughter was a “lady marvel, mini genius, star performer and future chief of the world”.
“It’s laborious to consider you might be 6 my stunning lady!!” she wrote.
2023 was when issues appeared to go downhill for Tiffany. She was sectioned (involuntarily detained) underneath the Psychological Well being Act that yr.
Certainly one of Tiffany’s mates mentioned in late 2025 that her mom handed “two or three years in the past”.
“So far as I do know, she had no household help,” her colleague mentioned.
Clementine was mentioned to be a sensible baby. The ABC have been advised that Clementine had an “distinctive educational report”
Clementine was mentioned to have missed a variety of college days from 2024 onwards. Tiffany all the time had plausible excuses – reminiscent of Clementine being sick, that they have been happening vacation or simply wished a day at dwelling. Tiffany would finally take her out of the mainstream college system altogether.
Beneath the Queensland Schooling Division’s homeschooling necessities, taking part dad and mom should present an schooling program abstract yearly and report yearly on their baby’s progress.
The division doesn’t undertake dwelling visits for youngsters registered to be homeschooled.
As of September 2025, Tiffany had not been in a position to work for the prior 18 months on account of her psychological well being. She was nonetheless employed part-time with Queensland Well being as a employees specialist on the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane.
In some unspecified time in the future in late September 2025, Tiffany and Clementine checked into the Airbnb in Kenmore Hills. The property is listed at round $1,000 per evening, with a minimal of a 5 evening keep required.
On September 28, 2025, Tiffany was seen on CCTV taking the bins out on the property.
On September 29, it’s believed that Tiffany scheduled an e mail to be despatched to a colleague. The contents of that e mail haven’t been made public, however the colleague was involved sufficient to request a welfare test.
When police went to the Airbnb, they discovered Tiffany and Clementine deceased.
Queensland Police wouldn’t touch upon whether or not she was identified to police for psychological well being causes.
Many individuals have questioned how Clementine was in a position to fall by the cracks, with Tiffany’s documented psychological well being struggles.
“Clemmie ought to have been identified to the Division of Little one Companies as a result of Tiffany was extraordinarily mentally unwell,”
a colleague mentioned. “Any baby of somebody who has had the Psychological Well being Act invoked ought to have been on the radar of kid companies.”
“ However Tiffany was extremely sensible and regardless of her sickness, managed to persuade lots of people that she was coping very properly. She wasn’t.”
“Individuals might have given her the good thing about the doubt as a result of she was a medical skilled.”
Bond College criminologist Terry Goldsworthy advised the media that crimson flags ought to have been raised after Clementine missed a lot college.
“On the very least the college ought to’ve established that there was a justification for the kid not being in school when it comes to attendance,” he mentioned.
Tiffany was listed as an anaesthetist on the Australian Well being Practitioner Regulation Company’s web site of registered docs, however her identify was eliminated following her dying.
Australian Medical Affiliation (AMA) Queensland president Dr Nick Yim mentioned their “hearts exit to household and mates affected by this tragic occasion”.
“We all know docs and well being professionals expertise psychological well being challenges identical to everybody else,” he mentioned.
“The dying of fellow practitioners can set off misery for these working in our well being system.
“We urge any clinicians struggling to achieve out for help through inside processes at work, their GP or psychologist, and even within the first occasion to a trusted pal or member of the family.”
No reason for dying has been launched for both Tiffany or Clementine.
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