The 24 minutes that condemned Benjamin Elliot

The 24 Minutes That Condemned Benjamin Elliot: The Murder of Megan Elliot At 4:41 AM on September 29, 2021, a teenager called 911 from Katy, Texas, to confess that he had just stabbed his twin sister while she was sleeping. Cell phone records show that Benjamin Elliot had been active for over 40 minutes before making the call. The question that defined the trial: Can a sleepwalker disable alarms, walk between rooms, and execute a fatal attack, all without truly waking up? In this episode, we explore the battle between neuroscientists and prosecutors to interpret 24 minutes of silence in the device's record, the contradiction between Benjamin's partial memory of the second stab and the total amnesia that sleepwalking should produce, and the forensic state of Megan's body, which indicated death hours before the emergency call. Was it a premeditated crime or the extreme manifestation of a clinically undocumented sleep disorder? Victim: Megan Elliot Date: September 29, 2021 Location: Katy, Texas, United States Case Status: Guilty, 15 years sentence (February 24, 2025) - Benjamin's cell phone shows activity at 4:01 AM disabling a school alarm, contradictory to his statement of being asleep since 3 AM. - Megan's body showed pale gray coloration and coagulated blood upon paramedics' arrival, evidence consistent with death 3-4 hours before the 911 call. - Benjamin only remembered the second stab but not the first, clinically incompatible with the total amnesia expected in documented sleepwalking episodes. - Sleepwalking never reoccurred in the 3 years following the crime, weakening the narrative of an active chronic disorder. Benjamin Elliot, Katy Texas murder twin sister, 2021, sleepwalking, forensic, homicide, criminal minds, true crime investigation, parasomnia, verdict, true crime SpanishTo listen ad-free and access premium episodes, start your 14-day free trial at obomedia.comOBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie