Posted on 11/21/2005 4:23:43 PM PST by Peace4EarthNow
LANCASTER, Pa. - A 14-year-old girl whose 18-year-old boyfriend allegedly fatally shot her parents left willingly with him after the slayings and was not kidnapped, prosecutors said in court papers filed Monday.
Kara Borden told detectives she left of her own free will, according to the filing. David Ludwig told detectives the two planned to get married and start a new life together.
Ludwig confessed to the slayings after his arrest and told police where to find the murder weapon in his car, according to court documents released Monday in Indiana.
In court documents filed in Pennsylvania, prosecutors said Kara Borden ran from her home to get into Ludwig's car after the Nov. 13 shootings.
"(Kara) told the defendant that she wanted to stay with him, and they drove west with the intent to 'get as far away as possible, get married, and start a new life,'" Ludwig told detectives, according to the court papers.
District Attorney Donald Totaro said Monday the kidnapping charge against Ludwig, of Lititz, will be dropped at his preliminary hearing next month.
Earlier Monday, Indiana authorities released a search warrant affidavit for the car the couple drove nearly 600 miles from the murder scene in central Pennsylvania to Indiana.
Ludwig told Indiana State Police that a Glock semiautomatic pistol he used to kill Michael and Cathryn Borden was under the driver's front seat of his parents' car, according to the affidavit.
Police seized a .40-caliber Glock pistol, a .223-caliber rifle and several articles of black clothing under a search warrant executed Wednesday. Under a separate search warrant executed Friday, police said they found a .45-caliber Colt pistol, a screwdriver, several maps and two Indiana license plates.
Ludwig told police that there were several guns in the car.
"He certainly did make a statement and cooperated with police," said Hendricks County (Ind.) prosecutor Patricia A. Baldwin. "They basically let him talk is what they did."
Police have said the murder weapon was a .40-caliber handgun.
Ludwig is being held without bail, awaiting a Dec. 16 preliminary hearing on charges that he shot the Bordens in their home in Lititz on Nov. 13. Police allege the shootings occurred after an argument over Ludwig's relationship with Kara Borden.
Police caught up to Ludwig and Borden Nov. 14 after a chase that ended with him crashing the car into a tree in Belleville, Ind.
James Gratton, a public defender representing Ludwig, said he was aware that his client had given a statement to Indiana authorities, but did not know specifically what he told them.
Neither Ludwig nor the girl, who has not been charged, was injured in the crash.
Investigators said previously they were treating Kara Borden as a crime victim but that the investigation was continuing.
In a court filing Friday, Ludwig's attorneys said they wanted investigators to preserve evidence in Ludwig's wallet, such as receipts from their journey, so that surveillance video could be obtained. The video would show that he didn't kidnap the girl, the attorneys said.
Kara Borden told detectives she left of her own free will, according to the filing. David Ludwig told detectives the two planned to get married and start a new life together.
OK, raise your hand if you didn’t make any silly boneheaded decisions when you were fourteen.
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Well there's a young person who has ruined the rest of her life.
At 14 you think that your 3 month school vacation is a long time. I have shirts older than this stupid child.
David Ludwig's got a husband or two waiting for him in prison now.
"silly and boneheaded"???
She watched him murder her parents, then,without a twinge of love or compassion for them, took off with the murder. That's little beyond silly or boneheaded, I think.
I wouldn't call deserting your family to flee with the murderer of your parents silly or boneheaded. I'd call it evil, among other words.
NONE, that rose to the level of running off with the jerk that just murdered my parents, abandon my orphaned siblings and agree to marry the murderous bastard...
Get real!
Semper Fi
What kind of person plans to marry the murderer of her parents?
(And please don't offer up the excuse that she is only fourteen—that is old enough to know the difference between right and wrong, and to know that murder is wrong.)
Oh, my, that is so . . . judgmental!
Oh. . . . never mind.
By the grace of God, never ones with these kind of consequences.
Not one like taking off with a guy who just KILLED YOUR PARENTS. Are you kidding?
I thought I was a stupid kid for spilling oil on my father's driveway and only feeling bad enough to try to clean it up and hide it instead of telling him.
Oh boy,
Next time put a winky by it ;) ;)
Most of us have made boneheaded decisions when we were 14, but nothing like this....this is sad, very sad. 14 is old enough to know the difference between right and wrong. Despicable
I thought the word "silly" was a dead giveaway.
Yeah, I guess she was valuing Ludwig's human life and letting the dead bury their dead! ;};}
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