AmaiStina
08-06-2004, 12:00 AM
as a fellow FT writer referred to it.
i copied & pasted it from the news website.
Teenagers 'Cold-Blooded Killers'
Reported By: Jon Shirek
Web Editor: Tracey Christensen
Last Modified: 8/5/2004 8:56:15 PM
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.
"At some point in time during that confrontation, Holly stabbed her grandmother in the back," Jordan said, adding that the grandparents were then able to pin Harvey down on her bed. Harvey began to holler for help, saying, "Why aren't you helping me?"
"Sandy came out from under the bed and got involved in the struggle and, at that point, it became a melee," said Jordan.
The grandfather escaped and ran upstairs, possibly to call 9-1-1, but Harvey used the knife to cut the phone lines. Harvey followed her grandfather and the two struggled on the top of the stairs. The fight made its way into the kitchen, when Carl Collier died of multiple stab wounds. During her struggle with Ketchum, Sarah Collier made it out of the bedroom and into a hallway, where her body was found. She had been stabbed at least 15 times, investigators said.
"Holly had written four notes on her arm of things she wanted to remember to do. The first word was kill. The second word was keys. The third word was money and the fourth word was jewelry," said Jordan.
The girls took the grandmother's jewelry, but may not have found any money in the house, Jordan said. They fled the scene in the Colliers' truck and drove to a friend, Sarah Polk's house in Griffin. There, Jordan said, they used a towel to wipe the blood off them and changed clothes. They put the clothes and murder weapons in a backpack and then drove to the Georgia coast. When they left, Polk called 9-1-1, which prompted a visit to the Colliers' home and the discovery of the two bodies.
Investigators tracked the girls to Tybee Island through their cell phone use. While there, Jordan said, Harvey and Ketchum befriended two brothers, ages 14 and 22, on the beach and asked for a place to stay. The boys' mother gave her permission and allowed the two to sleep in her new beach home.
Fayette investigators staked out the stolen pick-up truck and converged on the home to arrest the girls Tuesday. Ketchum had a knife in her pocket, Jordan said, leading investigators to consider the possibility the girls planned to kill the boys' mother in order to steal her car. A search of the truck turned up the knives used to kill the Colliers, Jordan said.
"I'm going to tell you those knives were wicked and they turned my stomach when I opened that towel and saw them. I don't think any reasonable human being can look at those knives and not believe that the intent was clearly to kill these people," he said.
Jordan said Ketchum has been remorseful, is cooperating, and has a complete understanding of what effect the killings will have on the rest of her life.
"I've had a long conversation with Sandy. I think Sandy was in it for the love," Jordan said.
The victims' granddaughter, he said, is emotionless.
"There will be evidence presented at trial that she had not cried all the way up to the point of her arrest. I spoke to her that day. She was callous and cocky."
Jordan, who writes crime novels when he is not at work at the sheriff's office, said Harvey may be the most unrepentant killer with whom he's ever dealt.
"I have arrested teenaged killers before and I have arrested some that I thought was cold but she is the coldest and probably the most heartless individual I've ever interviewed, especially directly after they've killed somebody in their immediate family," he said.
After her arrest, Harvey tried to struggle her way out of her handcuffs. When she was walked out of a bedroom and saw the crowd of police officers who had converged on the beach property, she laughed.
"It almost made her giddy to know that we had brought that many people to arrest her and as she went by the officers she laughed at each one as she went by them."
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.
Services for the Colliers will take place Sunday and Monday. Visitation is scheduled from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Mowell Funeral Home on Sunday, with a Monday a funeral to begin at 11 a.m. at the Fayetteville First Baptist Church.
Heres a picture of the two girls:
http://www.11alive.com/assetpool/images/04838517_fay-co-teen-suspects.jpg
i copied & pasted it from the news website.
Teenagers 'Cold-Blooded Killers'
Reported By: Jon Shirek
Web Editor: Tracey Christensen
Last Modified: 8/5/2004 8:56:15 PM
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.
"At some point in time during that confrontation, Holly stabbed her grandmother in the back," Jordan said, adding that the grandparents were then able to pin Harvey down on her bed. Harvey began to holler for help, saying, "Why aren't you helping me?"
"Sandy came out from under the bed and got involved in the struggle and, at that point, it became a melee," said Jordan.
The grandfather escaped and ran upstairs, possibly to call 9-1-1, but Harvey used the knife to cut the phone lines. Harvey followed her grandfather and the two struggled on the top of the stairs. The fight made its way into the kitchen, when Carl Collier died of multiple stab wounds. During her struggle with Ketchum, Sarah Collier made it out of the bedroom and into a hallway, where her body was found. She had been stabbed at least 15 times, investigators said.
"Holly had written four notes on her arm of things she wanted to remember to do. The first word was kill. The second word was keys. The third word was money and the fourth word was jewelry," said Jordan.
The girls took the grandmother's jewelry, but may not have found any money in the house, Jordan said. They fled the scene in the Colliers' truck and drove to a friend, Sarah Polk's house in Griffin. There, Jordan said, they used a towel to wipe the blood off them and changed clothes. They put the clothes and murder weapons in a backpack and then drove to the Georgia coast. When they left, Polk called 9-1-1, which prompted a visit to the Colliers' home and the discovery of the two bodies.
Investigators tracked the girls to Tybee Island through their cell phone use. While there, Jordan said, Harvey and Ketchum befriended two brothers, ages 14 and 22, on the beach and asked for a place to stay. The boys' mother gave her permission and allowed the two to sleep in her new beach home.
Fayette investigators staked out the stolen pick-up truck and converged on the home to arrest the girls Tuesday. Ketchum had a knife in her pocket, Jordan said, leading investigators to consider the possibility the girls planned to kill the boys' mother in order to steal her car. A search of the truck turned up the knives used to kill the Colliers, Jordan said.
"I'm going to tell you those knives were wicked and they turned my stomach when I opened that towel and saw them. I don't think any reasonable human being can look at those knives and not believe that the intent was clearly to kill these people," he said.
Jordan said Ketchum has been remorseful, is cooperating, and has a complete understanding of what effect the killings will have on the rest of her life.
"I've had a long conversation with Sandy. I think Sandy was in it for the love," Jordan said.
The victims' granddaughter, he said, is emotionless.
"There will be evidence presented at trial that she had not cried all the way up to the point of her arrest. I spoke to her that day. She was callous and cocky."
Jordan, who writes crime novels when he is not at work at the sheriff's office, said Harvey may be the most unrepentant killer with whom he's ever dealt.
"I have arrested teenaged killers before and I have arrested some that I thought was cold but she is the coldest and probably the most heartless individual I've ever interviewed, especially directly after they've killed somebody in their immediate family," he said.
After her arrest, Harvey tried to struggle her way out of her handcuffs. When she was walked out of a bedroom and saw the crowd of police officers who had converged on the beach property, she laughed.
"It almost made her giddy to know that we had brought that many people to arrest her and as she went by the officers she laughed at each one as she went by them."
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.
Services for the Colliers will take place Sunday and Monday. Visitation is scheduled from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Mowell Funeral Home on Sunday, with a Monday a funeral to begin at 11 a.m. at the Fayetteville First Baptist Church.
Heres a picture of the two girls:
http://www.11alive.com/assetpool/images/04838517_fay-co-teen-suspects.jpg