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
Tragic all around.
We will have to wait for the rest of the story I guess, before we find out the facts.
14 year old girl abducted after her parents were murdered
Please stay alert for this young lady.
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Thanks T.
Lititz...huge Amish territory.
My pleasure!
Prayers for the girl.
Thanks, I have been listening on my police scanner to the southern central PA. area where I live. This is just terrible news.
FUNNY. Though, does this suggest there was a normal version?
Have you heard of them having any leads? I pray they find this girl and she is ok. I also pray she didn't have anything to do with the murder of her parents.
Please add me to the PA list, thanks (Delaware County resident here)
Bumping and praying that the girl is found safe and sound. And praying for the other children, too, for they have got a lot to deal with now.
You have been added. I only use my state lists for alerting to missing person, fugitive alerts...that type of urgent news.
Thanks toots.
Thank you!
You're welcome trussell
Lititz? I do not understand your reply.
Lititz is the next town up from Lancaster. Warwick is a bedroom community on Lititz's SE. (More like a subdivision or two.)
This is the same community where just this past Monday a druggie shot it out with the cops (wounded cop still in the hospital) then drove to the southern part of the County and committed suicide as the manhunt closed in.
I, too, pray for her safe return. Dear God, let's give our kids back their innocence and their childhods.
Dang...sounds like this area is having a run of bad luck with their criminals. :(
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