Posted on 11/13/2005 2:15:56 PM PST by grjr21
Pennsylvania State police are searching for a 14-year-old girl reportedly kidnapped at gunpoint after her parents were murdered.
Authorities have issued an Amber Alert for Kara Beth Borden, who was last seen at 8 a.m. in Warwick Township, Lancaster County.
Police reported that the teen was taken by 18-year-old David G. Ludwig. Authorities say he was last seen driving a red Volkswagen Jetta with Pennsylvania registration E-H-H-0-9-9-4.
Borden is described as white, 5-feet-1, and 100 pounds, with brown hair with blond highlights. She was last seen wearing a black sweat shirt with "Pillar" across the front, blue jeans and black sneakers.
Ludwig is a white male with brown hair and brown eyes.
State police are urging people in the following counties or cities to be on the lookout for Ludwig: Lancaster, Lebanon, Dauphin, Perry, Juniata, York, Cumberland, Mifflin, Snyder, Northumberland, Franklin, Berks, Chester, Montgomery, Bucks, Philadelphia, Delaware, Schuykill, Lehigh and Northamption counties.
It was not immediately clear how authorities discovered the killings.
Neighbor John Hohman, 40, said he first noticed an ambulance on the street around 8:15 a.m. About 25 minutes later, he said he got a phone call from Lancaster emergency management officials telling his family to stay inside.
Looking out the window, Hohman said he saw teams of police running through the neighborhood; around 10:15 a.m., authorities told him to go into his basement and wait there until further notice.
"We were really upset; we didn't know what going on," Hohman said.
Hohman said Borden, who played soccer, occasionally babysat for him. "She's a very nice girl," Hohman said.
Neighbor Tod Sherman, 47, has lived in the quiet suburban development for 12 years and said that Borden was one of five children.
The Borden family has lived on the street in a tan, two-story house for several years, he said. Kara's father, Mike Borden, worked for a printing company, said Sherman.
"He was very smart and focused, a nice guy. They were super people," Sherman said. "They were just a fine family."
The Bordens home-schooled their children and knew Ludwig through a home-schooling network, Sherman said.
Sherman's son Tyler, 11, played with Kara's youngest brother, David. Tyler said he sometimes saw Ludwig at the Borden house, frequently dressed in black.
"I didn't find him to be very friendly," said Tyler.
The eldest two Borden children, both male, are in their 20s and no longer live at home, Sherman said. The whereabouts of David Borden and Kara's older sister, both of whom still live at home, were not immediately clear.
The Amber Alert system uses a state's emergency notification system to give broadcasters a description of a missing child and a suspect's vehicle. The information is also displayed on electronic highway signs.
It is named for 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was kidnapped and killed in Arlington, Texas. It is used in 47 states.
Amber Alert: http://www.amber.state.pa.us/amber/site/default.asp
Jim, could it please be taken into consideration that Amber Alerts warrant breaking news status?
I've posted some before and the kids were taken across state lines. Kidnappers sometimes come into an area from somewhere else...they aren't just local incidents in many cases.
This has to be a very big shock. Pillar is a Christian group and so as soon as I heard it I had a feeling it was not going to be the avg pedophile that had taken her. This is terrible.
I haven't been all the way through the thread so excuse if this info has been posted.
David G. Ludwig killed 14-year-old Kara Beth Borden's parents after they and their daughter argued about her curfew, police said. The girl was last seen Sunday morning at the family's home in Warwick Township, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.
"We think they're boyfriend and girlfriend," said Seace. "The young girl was out during the night, came home, and her parents confronted her. From what we understand, he came to the house."
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/topstories/news-article.aspx?storyid=47277
Some of it has to do with motherly instinct.
Christians are humans too. And sometimes Christians are bad news, or their kids.
I have a neighbor who is very Bible oriented Christian. She has one disabled daughter and an older girl. The older one is sneaky and violent. The mom spends tons of time and energy taking care of the little one so the older one has problems that she doesn't see or doesn't want to.
Although we used to be close, a few incidents caused us to pause. I thank the Dear Lord that nothing has happened so far. I have heard from other mothers in a homeschooling group that I don't belong to, this girl is getting worse.
Just what Pennsylvania needs -- another missing blonde girl so that the talking heads can speculate about which minority group was responsible for abducting her and murdering her parents, before the authorities can develop meaningful evidence to counter the hysteria.
I think that for the most part when something is done by someone who claims to be a Christian that the person had a false conversion, of the mind but not the spirit. Backsliding is always possible but if there has never been fruit evident in their life it's cause for question.
My son was attacked by some other boys the other day at a church event. Thank God it was over quickly and he wasn't injured badly. Unfortunately those boys were allowed to stay for the remainder of the event with a stern warning. I was called at the time of the incident due to my son's injury but the other parents were not called and that was wrong. So we have to deal with the situation with our church leaders this week. I learned last night that some girls had jumped a girl at church some weeks previous. We are living in perilous times!
>> I was called at the time of the incident due to my son's injury but the other parents were not called and that was wrong. So we have to deal with the situation with our church leaders this week. I learned last night that some girls had jumped a girl at church some weeks previous.<<
You're right. All parents should be held responsible for their children.
I have it at my church too. We do Slovak dance and one family has six of the dancers. Because of that, the littlest can do anything. She has hit my daughter twice. We keep a good eye on these children.
Carolyn
I believe at MYSPACE you have to say you are 18 or over to make a page. So that is what the kids do.
They've already got a suspect. He's white.
Sounds like the movie Badlands, starring the young Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek (also with Warren Oates), which was, in turn, based on a true story. But I can't remember the real outlaw's name.
From what I've heard, police are admitting she may have left with him willingly (still kidnapping as she's 14 and he's 18).
I am beginning to suspect the girl has a role in this whole thing.
She's just 14, and we don't know what is going thru her mind today. She is in grave danger with this guy, in part because there is no way out for either of them.
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"She is in grave danger with this guy, in part because there is no way out for either of them."
This is my worry. IF the girl went along willingly, she may by now have remorse and is scared and hysterical. Does not bode well.
MurryMom is back, and just as "lucid" as ever!! I think JimRob has withheld the ZOT all these years so we can toy with her.
I have a really bad feeling about this one, and I suspect from the comments by the police they do too.
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