Posted on 07/28/2010 10:50:36 AM PDT by Korah
Rachel Wade has been found guilty of Murder in the Second Degree of Sarah Ludemann in a teen love triangle murder case that drew national headlines. Wade broke down crying when the Florida jury read the guilty verdict. She will be sentenced on September 3.
Prosecutor Wesley Dicus described the violent stabbing that actually bent the knife.
"You saw the blade on that knife, it's bent with enough force to rip through not just skin, not just the fatty tissue of Sarah Ludemann's breasts, not just her muscle, but her rib bone, her lung and ultimately her heart," Dicus said.
"Common sense tells you, you don't plunge a knife into someone else's chest unless you don't care," he continued.
Defense attorney Jay Hebert claims Wade acted in self-defense. Hebert says on the night of the murder, Ludemann and her friends went "jump" Rachel and that it was Sarah, not Rachel, who started the fatal fight.
Wade and Ludemann were both dating Josh Camacho in a dramatic love triangle that lasted for months. There were several confrontations between the teen girls via phone calls, text messages and occasionally in public.
Friends say Josh encourage the fighting and told the girls, "If you love me, you'll fight for me." Camacho is not currently charged with a crime.
Teen love triangles that lead to violence are reportedly on the rise in the US.
If anyone would like to watch a few video reports about this, you can go to
Accused killer Rachel Takes Stand in Her Defense (Tampa Bay Fox video),
Video of Death Threat Phone Recordings During Trial (CNN Justice),
Love triangle Murder News Coverage (WTSB 10 Tampa, Bay).
(Sarah Ludemann)
(Joshua Camacho)
(Rachel Wade)
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(Joshua Camacho)
(Sarah Ludemann)
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thug
“One of my many questions in this is, What did they see in this thug that deserved one being killed and the other going to prison?”
If you wrestle with pigs, you are going to get muddy.
Women today have no sense of picking mates how are good providers, stable, etc. The number of children in the wake of bad parental decisions is going to kill this country.
The real love triangle is that the dude is inlove with me, myself, and I from the looks of the pictures.
That jungle fever will get you in trouble every time.
Nothing that was deserved, but the so-called bad boy has always appealed to many girls of that age. It sounds like this particular creep was of a mind to “turn out” these girls much in the same way a pimp does - i.e. “If you love me, you’ll fight for me.”
and the pig enjoys it
Well these two seem to have been the typical teen girl today doesn’t it (at least the ones I see), welders’ googles, the same cloned look as every other girl and going after the metrosexual girly man, what can one say, seems a lot of girls today don’t have their heads on straight... unfortunately one of them paid with their life this time.
I don’t have an answer for you. It constantly amazes me how often I see an attractive young girl with a guy who looks to be a real loser.
Listen to the murderer’s threats here:
http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2010/audio/to-die-for-audio/
AMEN!!!
Those girls look like the girl who cornered me in the locker room in junior high. I stood up to her, but as you can see I still remember it, LOL.
Doesn’t Rachel look a lot like Reese Witherspoon in the last photo of her in the blues jail jumpsuit?
Why is Nancy Grace crap posted in the news forum?
Well, it is also posted on CNN, ABC, 48 hours et all.
However, I can post the whole story by jumping from this site instead of them.
This keeps Freerepublic from trouble.
Rachel doesn’t look so smug any more. Guess that whole prison thing isn’t so great now, is it gangsta?
They fought over that creep?!
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