Posted on 12/17/2005 4:33:20 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
Well Kara Elizabeth Borden looks like she'll get away with murder just like Lizzie Borden did.
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Last Spring Ludwig took off with a teenage girl and went to a cabin. Both sets of parents resolved the problem.
Maybe the older brothers will have to take the kids.
She might not realize that for another 10 years.
I'll tell you quite frankly, if I had other children I would hesitate a long time before I let her in my home. We know that she lies, disobeys, sneaks around, sleeps around, and hasn't got the judgment to recognize a disturbed and evil individual.
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how in the world was she not charged as an accessory? PA law allows it at 14.
but she did help a murderer flee, dispose of evidence etc. SHE knows.
One brother is in the Army (just got back from Iraq), the other was planning to bring his girlfriend home to meet the parents (apparently in preparation for getting engaged) at Thanksgiving, a few weeks after they were murdered.
I don't see how either of these boys can take on the responsibility of raising these kids, especially one they have to wonder might whack them, too.
Not the first Borden to get away with killing her parents.
Yeah, and what foster family would want to take on such a kid? Her parents seemed to do everything possible to keep her protected and on track and she got them murdered.
Now she's got to deal with that, plus the growing realization that the "love of her life" was a disturbed individual with no conscience (of course, right now, she's probably still in the "it was wrong for him to kill my parents, but just look at how much he loved me!") and that he also may get the death penalty.
She's going to be a mess.
She has 2 older brothers , in their 20's. At the time of her parents funeral, they had custody of her.
Ludwig is insisting "Kara never asked, planned with or helped. There is no smoking gun," Lancaster County District Attorney Donald Totaro said at a press conference at the Lancaster County Courthouse.
Yes, but if you see someone commit at least murder (and know about the second), how is not fleeing with him, throwing out cell phones in an effort to keep him from being tracked by police, not giving aid and comfort in the commission of a crime?
When the guys jump in the car after having robbed the bank, even if the driver did not realize ahead of time that is what they were going to do and he had no role in helping plan or execute the robbery, if he sits by and rides along as they escape, doing nothing at the first opportunity to turn them in, is he not an accessory after the fact?
She knew Ludwig committed murder. She voluntarily jumped in the car and ran away with him. Had she not, he might have hung around longer looking for her, or stayed in the area longer, thus facilitating his capture before his wild and reckless chase in Indiana where he was putting people's lives at risk by running them off the road, etc.
I think this is a purely a "whaaa-she's suffered enough, poor little girl" lame decision.
I agree with you.
The DA I'm sure is reluctant to take on a case this weak. I mean, we're all pretty sure what went down and that she was involved to some degree, but proving that to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt when the kid is wailing and crying on the stand and the bad guy is insisting she had nothing to do with it would be tough.
It would also jeopardize their prosecution of the main offender.
I don't know how they do things in those parts, but my money's on her having made a deal to testify in exchange for non-prosecution of what amounts to a fairly weak case. If so, this will come out when Ludwig's lawyer files a "Reveal the Deal" motion.
Exactly. Even if she had no part in the murders, any parent would have to be concerned about her behavior that led up to this. Even if her parents were still alive, would you want a sexually active, 14 y/o defiant, runaway around your teenagers? Since she's not going to jail, hopefully she will have adults with no or grown children in her life that can help her and give her the guidance she is going to need.
She, and everyone else, knows that she's as responsible for the deaths of her parents as Ludwig is. She didn't hold the physical weapon...she just set into motion the events leading up to, and including, the murders.
Hell would be a paradise, considering what she'll face in Lititz and Lancaster County.
After the trial, she might get moved out of state. Weren't her parents from another state?
Aside from his mind-boggling cold-blooded murder of Kara's parents, he obviously was too immature to realize the price he would pay. What world does he live in?
As to Kara, I find it hard to believe she didn't hear gunshots...my understanding is that she was in the house at the time David shot her father, at least.
It's another stupid waste of human lives...all of them.
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