she was in her room when she heard screaming between 2: and 2:30 a. m. she said that she locked herself in the room and heard the screaming just outside the door all four victims had defensive wounds on their hands and wrists it is very probable that the life-threatening injuries that they sustained killed them within a few hours of the incident when Honolulu police got a call about a domestic disturbance on the morning of March 10th 201 24 they had no idea they were about to uncover one of the most horrifying crime scenes in Hawaii's history at first when officers arrived at the quiet monoa home everything seemed normal no signs of a struggle no one answering the door so they left but then the caller rang 911 again when officers returned just 45 minutes later a tenant inside the house let them in and that's when they saw it five bodies Paris a his wife Nako and their three children all brutally sped to death in their own home and the most chilling part the person responsible for this massacre was the very man who was supposed to protect them but what could drive a father to commit such an unthinkable crime as investigators dug deeper they uncovered A Dark Truth one of financial ruin desperation and a twisted belief that if he couldn't escape his debt neither could his family but to understand how everything happened let's start at the beginning this tragic story took place in monoa a quiet peaceful neighborhood in Honolulu the kind of place where people feel safe and where families Thrive that's where 46-year-old Paris a lived with his wife naako and their three kids sakurako orian and Nana Paris was a chiropractor with a practice near the Allah Moana Center one of the biggest shopping malls in Hawaii his wife Nao was originally from Japan and sometimes helped out at the clinic life seemed good for the Oda family they were gearing up for sakurako's high school graduation and weighing her college options both in Hawaii and on the mainland she was passionate about nursing and cooking she and her mom even had helped run the hapalua marathon together in 2019 finishing just three places apart Oran was in sixth grade at seik Charter School and Nana went to monoa Elementary Nana was on the shy side but always looked out for others while orian was the playful kind-hearted kid everyone adored to their neighbors the odas were just a normal happy family every Christmas they would decorate their house for the holidays bringing festive cheer to the neighborhood even at work Paris was known as a devoted family man one of his employees Cammy divers recall how much he loved his family he would get up early morning to prepare their lunch and cook their breakfast and he would let his wife sleep I said oh you're such a good husband you know and and there but then something changed in December 2024 the decorations never went up that was the first red flag then neighbors started noticing that the family just seemed off one person even described them as looking sad paris's employees picked up on it too the one's friendly upbeat chiropractor had started acting distant Moody withdrawn he barely smiled anymore even his patients picked up on it some of the patient had told me that oh um what happened with DrOdin you know he kind of quiet lady or something like that and I said some of the patient is it because of me they said I said no no no nothing to do with you but even with these warning signs no one could have imagined what happened next on that Sunday morning of March 10th 2024 police got a chilling call someone had heard screams coming from the Oda home on waa Place officers rushed to the house arriving at 8:34 a.
m. but when they got there the caller was nowhere to be found they knocked on the door no answer they listened closely nothing no more screams no movement just a heavy unsettling silence they even asked a neighbor if they had seen or heard anything unusual nothing but behind those closed doors something horrific had already happened one of the officers tried calling back the person who had dialed 911 hoping to get more information but there was a problem the call had come from an international number and their system couldn't call it back with no signs of forced entry no visible threats and no legal reason to enter the home the officers had no choice but to leave but 45 minutes later at 9:15 a. m.
the phone rang again the same caller this time when the police returned to the Oda home the caller was there waiting for them outside it was a woman a tenant who had been renting a room in the house and something was clearly wrong her hands trembled her face was pale she looked like she had just seen a ghost she took a deep breath trying to steady herself and then with a shaky voice she told them what had happened she had been asleep in her room when she was jolted awake by screams loud panicked blood curdling screams she checked the time sometime between 2: and 2:30 a. m. and then they got louder and closer the screams were coming from right outside her door frozen in Terror she quickly locked herself in too scared to move too scared to even breathe but then she saw something that chilled her to the Bone blood a dark thick pool of it sweeping under her door spreading across the floor she told officers that she was too terrified to open the door and that's why she didn't come out the first time they arrived instead she waited until she couldn't wait anymore then climbed out of her window and finally met with the police when she called again now with this horrifying statement the police rushed back to the house they tried the front door but it was locked they pounded on it shouting for anyone inside no response peering through a window they saw something that made their stomachs drop a motionless body on the floor and at that moment they knew this was bad weapons drawn they moved to the back door forcing their way inside and that's when they saw it officers entered through the back door and found the unresponsive male laying in blood in the hallway he had wounds to the chest and was deceased he was later identified as 46-year-old Paris Oda as officers stepped over his body they saw it a kitchen knife still clutched in his stiff right hand but the nightmare was just beginning officers moved cautiously through the house clearing it room by room and what they found was horrifying in the first bedroom a young girl lying on the floor drenched in red knife wounds covered her leg and upper body she was later identified as 17-year-old sakurako then in the Next Room officers discovered a young boy lifeless in his bed knife wounds to his chest this was 12-year-old oron the officers followed a trail of red to the master bedroom where the scene grew even darker another child face down deep wounds carved into her back that was 10-year-old Nana and just behind the door as if she had fought to protect them all until the very end her mother naoko Oda 48 years old her body riddled with jab wounds the crime scene left no doubt Paris Oda was the killer at some point during the night something inside him snapped he grabbed a kitchen knife and turned on his own family attacking them in brutal unimaginable acts of violence and when it was all over he ended his own life a family that seemed so loving normal and happy completely wiped out in a single night the medical examiner's findings only made things is more disturbing naoko and Soko died from multiple sharp force injuries orian and Nana suffered fatal knife wounds to their torsos and the most gut-wrenching part they fought back the autopsy revealed defensive wounds on their hands and wrists proof that they had tried desperately to protect themselves but Paris overpowered them the police believed they succumbed to their injuries just hours after the attack the timeline lined up exactly with what the tenant had reported the horror unfolded around 2 or 2:30 a.
m. a small memorial of flowers at the house where less than 12 hours earlier Hol police discovered the bodies of five people on Sunday morning husband is the person that um his wife and his three children I think was pronounced dead at the scene but then again we'll have more information from the medical examiners all that is still under investigation police say after the suspect killed his family he turned the blade on himself I don't know if domestic violence we haven't had a history that when we checked so what the motive is is still unclear at this point the entire Community was shaken to its core even law enforcement who had seen their share of tragedies called it the second worst mass murder in Honolulu in nearly 25 years so I just got back in from uh a flight this morning and uh uh my cousin who lives or lives with me here she just texted me and said homicide had happened or something yeah this is a super quiet neighborhood that nothing ever happens here like it's so quiet that you can like walk around at night and not not care I I just know that they're a younger family um they're friendly neighbors no problems with them ever so what could make a father commit such an unthinkable act against his own family Paris had no criminal record there was no history of domestic violence by all accounts he was a hardworking man a loving husband and a devoted father so what went wrong the truth behind this tragedy would be even more heartbreaking than anyone could have imagined as investigators dug deeper trying to piece together what led Paris to commit such a horrific act one thing became clear money problems had been weighing on him for years Paris had been drowning in financial struggles for a long time he was behind on taxes laid on car and loan payments and barely keeping his Chiropractic business of flow his financial troubles dated back to at least 2021 when the owners of his office building sued him and his company Oda Ohana Chiropractic LLC for nearly $90,000 in unpaid rent and fees court records showed that he had stopped paying rent in December 2017 and continued to rack up debt throughout the co9 pandemic in the end he settled the case in December 2021 agreeing to pay $53,000 during the pandemic Paris had also received a $26,995 paycheck Protection Program loan to cover payroll for his four employees a loan that was eventually forgiven but the debt kept piling up in June 2023 Paris ano settled a state tax lion for $7,810 by December 2023 it was clear that he was desperate for cash he listed his 2013 Ford truck for sale for $20,000 and even put up a treadmill for $800 neighbors later told local media that the Oda family lived upstairs in their $1.
