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.
On second thought... that statement really isn't my style, while I think teenagers are silly and boneheaded in general, clearly this one's at a whole nother level beyond normal teenage drama and angst.
Yeah,
but mebby the silly needed a winky too :)
Stupid decision...? yeah I've made a bunch but I've never run off to marry a man that just murdered my family. Sorry but love stops once you witness your parents being blown away. I have to wonder now if this wasn't a pre planned option for these two.
Looks like I was right in the original thread about this crime.
especially if you think you are "in love". Wonder what her sibblings are thinking now.
Yeah, I see that now.
She resented their attempts to control/end the relationship.
This has happened more than once. It's odd because if a complete stranger threatened to kill her parents 6 months ago, she'd probably have wanted him dead.
But because she gets a little sexual/romantic with some guy, she basically agrees that her parents must die.
How did I screw up when I posted the original thread? Meantioning the teens by name?
It's possible she thought that if she didn't leave when he asked he could have killed the rest of the family, isn't it?
Since she wasn't kidnapped, I hope they charge her with something (accessory?).
If she admits she went on her own with the killer. That makes her an accessory after the fact and perhaps before the fact.
She is a murderer just like he is and should suffer the same punishment.
And when she cries for mommy and daddy, no one will come. She is an accessory to murder, whether she knows it or not.
Children today. In my day, they'd murder maybe one of their parents or a grandparent in a wheelchair, but now!
I wonder if they are going to charge this "poor little orphan girl (sarc)" with anything. They should. I'm just starting to wonder if they will.
Just like Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate in 1958. If it wasnt for the 24 hour news and alerts the same thing might have happened again but he killed 11 people in 8 days.
If the guy only killed one parent- say, the dad, then I could
see how she might think it was okay to go off with her boyfriend and marry him. But, he killed both of them which is really over the top. She probably should have said she would continue dating him but not marry him. She should have known better.
I've so had it with the whole "teen angst" thing. I'm just not buying it anymore.
But on another note... this sorta reminds me of someone we know. 'cept... this girl was a little better behaved before all this happened than whats-her-name.
I've wondered before if whats-her-name is dangerous, and I've concluded before: maybe.
Do step-mothers count?
Lizzie Bordon took an ax
And gave her mother forty whacks
And when she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one
Caril Fugate got life for being an accessory in nebraska, was released in 1976.
If this is true and she floats, she better stay in that little settlement of protectors because she will find out how despicable much of the the rest of the world finds her.
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