On the morning of Sept. 29, 2021, 17-year-old Benjamin Elliott was in a Harris County Sheriff's Office interrogation room in Houston, Texas.

DET. FREDER MUÑOZ (police interview): So, what happened, Benjamin?

BENJAMIN ELLIOTT: You ever have a really realistic nightmare? Where like just everything feels real, but also off at the same time?

Benjamin told Detective Freder Muñoz that he stabbed his twin sister once with a knife but had little memory of what had happened.

DET. FREDER MUÑOZ (police interview): So you go to sleep … what's the next thing you remember?

BENJAMIN ELLIOTT: The next thing I remember is, like, the feeling of stabbing something ... … I was in her room ... and I turned on the light ... and I was panicking. And I tried to stop bleeding with the – the — the pillow

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