His Own Family Came to His Door With Knives | The Murder of Paul Scott

Serialously with Annie Elise

This bonus episode of Serialously with Annie Elise explores the brutal murder of 37-year-old Paul Scott in his own home in June 2025. The case centers on a shocking betrayal by

Key takeaways

• Paul Scott was murdered in his own home by his mother, sister, and brother—family members he trusted deeply.
• The murder stemmed from a minor argument at a birthday party that escalated into a months-long vendetta.

Main topics

• Family-based homicide
• Pre-meditated murder

Notable quotes

"He's dead. There's nothing else we can do."

Conclusion

Paul Scott's murder was a tragic, avoidable act of familial betrayal rooted in

Transcript preview

Speaker 2 (0:22) Hey, Speaker 1 (0:26) true crime besties, welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly. Speaker 1 (0:49) Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all new episode. Now, at first, I wasn't going to cover today's case, but because I was kind of like, okay, do I want to talk about it? Do I want to share it? But the more that I learned about it, the more I felt like this is pretty unhinged. I feel like I have to talk about it because it has to do with a mother and children killing together and I don't know, just like filming things and just. so diabolical in every single way, but there's not enough information out there that I was like, there's no way I can make this like a full bore episode, but you know what I can do? I can definitely make it a bonus episode. So here we are. Hello. We are going to do a bonus episode today because I do have to talk to you about this case. I also have to apologize because it's probably going to mess you up mentally. It did for me. It took me like days after researching it to kind of recalibrate and recover myself, especially as a parent. But I think that it is one worth sharing. So. It takes us back to pretty recently, okay? 2025, not very long ago. And on the night of June 21st, 2025, a phone call came in to 999, which that's the UK's version of 911, okay? So the caller was saying that a man had been stabbed. And this phone call came in right around three in the morning. So like middle of the night, early morning hours. And the caller sounded like a young woman. However, she wasn't able to give very much helpful information. She told the operator that her name was Emily, that she didn't know the address where this man had been stabbed, but that he had been. In fact, she said she didn't even know how to give them directions to the house. The only information that she was able to give 999 was, quote, We just walked into the house and he's dead. He's on the floor. Blood all over. Now, as I'm sure most of you are familiar, the 999 operator can technically pull your address. The only issue, it's not instant. There are multiple steps involved, starting with seeing what cell tower your phone is calling from, where it's pinging from, then using GPS to get exact coordinates. So the operator was on top of it, hoping to get a better idea of where this call was coming from, but it was going to take a few minutes. It was going to take some time. And around two and a half minutes into this phone call, Emily then finally gave the operator an address. 21 Peridot Close. So the first responders were now well on their way. But in the meantime, the operator was instructing this caller, Emily, on things that she could do to potentially help while she was waiting for first responders to arrive. So the operator asked Emily if she could attempt CPR. Emily said she didn't know how, which is understandable. Nobody calling 999 is expected to know exactly what to do in a situation like this. That's why the operator is there to walk you through it. And not everybody knows how to just do CPR. But when the operator started to give Emily instructions, she said no. She wasn't going to do it because she was going to get sick if she tried, saying, no, no, no, no, I can't do this. It's going to make me sick. I can't do it. Like find someone else. Like it's not me. Now I'm guessing that the reason she was saying that is from the blood, which I get that as well. Like I understand that if somebody has a lot of blood, like it might make you sick. You don't think you can have the will to be strong enough to overcome that. I understand it. But that wasn't all that Emily said. At one point she told the operator, quote, listen, he's dead. There's nothing else we can do. Which, that feels pretty cold-hearted, doesn't it? Now, as jarring as that was to hear, the operators are all trained for these kinds of situations, right? Sometimes people are in denial. Maybe they're in a state of shock, thinking that the outcome is going to be one way or another. Which, that was why it was so incredibly important that at least Emily tried to do CPR. But Emily just kept saying things like, he's dead. He's not breathing. Speaker 1 (4:55) I said, absolutely not. Eventually, the operator was also able to find out that there was a defibrillator at a park nearby. So if Emily couldn't perform CPR on her own, whatever her reasons may have been, maybe she could go grab this defib. Maybe she could see if it was any help while they waited for the first responders. However, Emily's response to that suggestion, she didn't know where the park was that the operator was describing. She didn't know how she would get there or how she would find her way back. So she didn't go. She didn't even try. The call then ended when the first responders took over the phone, announcing that they had finally arrived at the scene. And unfortunately, Emily had been right about one thing. This man was dead. He was pronounced dead at the scene. And the man was 37-year-old Paul Scott. Now, when it comes to Paul, I didn't see a single negative thing about him in any of my research. Paul's sister described him as the kindest soul that she had ever known. Paul's father said that he was someone who valued family and also valued those in his life that he was closest with. He liked to go out, he liked to have a good time on occasion, but all in all, he was definitely more of a homebody. He didn't have a huge group of friends either because he was at that age where at 37 he preferred quality over quantity, so he had a select group of friends, not anything massive or huge. Paul's dad said that on the nights that he would go out, Paul would call him late at night just to tell him that he loved him and that he was thinking about him. And that was one of the biggest takeaways that I got from doing my research on this case. Paul was a guy who was extremely close with his family. He was always telling everyone how much he loved them and how much they meant to him. His family also said that he was a very big hugger. I mean, if Paul was coming over, they knew they were going to be showered with love. Now, despite being in his late 30s, Paul hadn't settled down yet. He hadn't found the person that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with, but he was okay with that. He still dreamed about eventually falling in love and starting a family of his own, but he was okay that it hadn't happened by this point. However, now, as we know, that was no longer an option for Paul. He had been brutally murdered, stabbed to death at his own home, no less. And his death had been nothing short of brutal. Paul's autopsy would later reveal just how brutal his final moments had been. The report showed he had likely been stabbed with a kitchen knife with a 20-centimeter blade. And while Paul had only been stabbed once, that one wound, it had done immense damage. The wound was to the left center of his chest, and it went through his skin, The tissue, the muscle of his chest wall, the other muscle between his fourth and fifth rib, and then ultimately through his heart. Which, that is deep, that is penetrating so many hard forces, which would take an incredible amount of pressure and an incredible amount of force. The actual depth of the wound was around 8.6 centimeters, though five of those centimeters were in his heart alone. So, That being said, it certainly makes sense why he was already deceased when first responders got there. He truly never even had a chance at survival. So there is no denying the brutality of Paul's death. The question was, who had done this to him? In his own home? Was this some sort of break-in or robbery that had ended in his death? What happened here? Well, here's the thing. Right away, investigators were able to see that this was no random break-in. Starting with the fact that there were no signs of forced entry. None at all. Nowhere in the house. And on top of that, nothing was messed up. Nothing was missing. Nothing appeared to have been ransacked. It didn't look like it was a burglary gone wrong. Other than Paul's body