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).
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You will notice the links do not take you to her site for videos, but you can read all the particulars without going to allvoices site.
Why is that a problem when this is top of the hour news all over the AP & Reuters.
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What’s the possible sentence for this girl?
I wonder if she thinks she can do it standing on her head? /sarc
quote—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.—end quote
DonaldC, you are so right. God help us all!!
We’re a political forum....not a rubbernecking, glomming, handwringing, “if it bleeds, it leads” forum...please keep this junk in chat...
They are losers who apparently never learned right and wrong. Some do when they are older I guess. Some never do.
OK, I can except that.
But I always thought that children murdering children was real news, not handwringing talk show gossip.
There is a guilty verdict and it goes to the heart of what the liberals have done to this country. We are now placing murder in chat instead of news.
Go figure, I guess only when a politician or millionare is murdered does it qualify for news in this country anymore.
I believe it is twenty-five to life.
Whenever does a love triangle go “good”?
That jungle fever will get you in trouble every time.
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What do you mean by that?
The little blonde skank should hang until she’s dead.
Wow.
Ghetto values, trickling into the mainstream as our culture continues its' downward death spiral towards mediocrity, will destroy our families and our overall culture every time.
Hopefully this one will rile you less.
As opposed to a love triangle that went good I suppose.
These aren’t the first white girls to go crazy over some guy. You must not watch Lifetime or WE TV; they’ve got plenty of cases of white people going crazy over white people all of the time. No need to bring race into it.
People have murdered over ‘love’ since the beginning of time, from so-called good families and from bad families. I abhor ghetto culture as much as the next FReeper, but you don’t need ghetto culture to do this kind of thing.
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