Two teenage girls plotted the brutal stabbing deaths of a retired Fayette County couple in order to continue their forbidden romance, the lead investigator in the case said Thursday.
"These girls were cold-blooded killers, but they were not smart killers. Smart killers don't stay on the phone telling their friends what they've done and where they're going," said Lt. Col. Bruce Jordan of the Fayette County Sheriff's Office.
Carl Collier, 74, and Sarah Collier, 73, were stabbed to death inside their Fayetteville, Ga., home Monday night. Their granddaughter, 15-year-old Holly Harvey, and her friend, 16-year-old Sandra Ketchum, have been charged in their deaths.
Jordan detailed the slayings for reporters Thursday, saying they had been planned for at least three days when Holly Harvey started calling friends in an attempt to find a gun. When she could not find one, she took three knives from the knife block in her grandparents' kitchen, he said.
Harvey snuck Ketchum into the house and, sometime between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Monday, the girls started smoking marijuana, possibly to lure the grandparents into a basement bedroom, Jordan said. The grandparents confronted Harvey, who had one knife, as Ketchum, armed with another knife, waited under the bed.
Harvey was a troubled teen long before the killings, Jordan said.
"I found a poem written...but the poem talked about Holly's depression and the fact that she cried herself to sleep at night and that she wished for everyone to suffer the way she suffered and that all she wants to do is kill," said Jordan.
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One girl was 15, the other 16. One sentenced to two consecutive life terms, the other to three consecutive life terms. Is this fair for two people under the age of 17?
Some people think Homosexuality in the media and lesbian porn has led these two very young girls to do this. The last 15 years or so it seems that violent crime is being comitted by younger and younger individuals who feel outcast from society.
Do you think it's a symptom of a flaud society that such young individuals feel so trapped and desperate at such young ages or do you think these kids are just the exception and are no reflection of our society? Do you think more acceptance of those who are different would curb this kind of behavior or do you think it doesn't matter what we do?
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