A Game Of Pray, Marry, Kill

Lititz sits in Lancaster County in south-eastern Pennsylvania, about an hour and three-quarters from Philadelphia, in the middle of Amish country. It was founded in 1756 by members of the Moravian Church and named after a castle whose Czech name was Litice. For more than a century only Moravians were allowed to live there, and only congregation members could own houses until the lease system was abolished in 1855. The town is home to Linden Hall, the oldest all-girls boarding school in the United States, founded in 1746, and it holds an annual Queen of the Candles pageant. In 2013 it won Budget Travel's America's Coolest Small Towns competition.

Michael Borden was a native of Hannibal, Missouri, one of six children in a Catholic family. He put himself through Northeast Missouri State University, now Truman State, graduated in 1977 and became the first in his family to earn a degree. He studied architecture before moving into graphic design and printing, then moved to Mississippi, where he worked for a publishing firm and married his high school sweetheart, Kathy. The couple left the Catholic church around that time and later settled in North Carolina before Michael took a job with a printing company in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. In the spring of 1997 the family moved into a new house in Warwick Township, just outside Lititz. Michael became an elder and Sunday school teacher at the Plymouth Brethren church, later described as Monterey Bible Chapel, a conservative Christian congregation where the women sat apart from the men. Neighbours and colleagues remembered him as private, serious, industrious and a perfectionist. Kathy was remembered as gentle and devoted to her children, whom she homeschooled. this part of the story is covered for now

Kara was fourteen in 2005. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it They messaged privately online because they could not behave like a couple at the group meetings. By the summer the relationship had become physical. this part of the story is covered for now They exchanged intimate messages and photographs. Kara's mother, Kathy, was already worried that her daughter was boy crazy and had asked friends and church members for advice. details of the account remain covered until revealed They believed in premarital chastity and had gone so far as to give their daughter Catelyn a diamond ring as a pledge to help her stay pure until marriage.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it In the late winter before the spring of 2005 he took a sixteen-year-old girlfriend to his family's hunting cabin in another county without her parents' permission. He brought her back voluntarily, and both families decided not to involve the police. A friend said the girl was so traumatised that she stopped speaking for about two weeks. His friends noticed that he changed during 2005, and one recalled him saying that he could kill someone and get away with it.

this part of the story is covered for now That same day Kara told her parents she was sleeping over at a girlfriend's house. details of the account remain covered until revealed Her mother was waiting. Kathy confronted her, and Kara admitted she had not been where she said. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now Michael lectured him for about forty-five minutes, calmly quoting scripture and explaining that the relationship was wrong, then forbade him from ever seeing Kara again and walked him to the door. details of the account remain covered until revealed The bullet passed through the brain stem and out through the forehead and was recovered from a door frame. Michael died almost immediately.

Kara's sister Catelyn, about fifteen, saw the shooting and ran into the bathroom. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The bullet passed through her raised right hand before entering her skull and was later removed from her frontal lobe. Catelyn heard the second shot as she fled. this part of the story is covered for now She did not answer. The couple's nine-year-old brother slipped out the back door and ran to a neighbour's house to call 911.

details of the account remain covered until revealed Kara ran after the car, waving him down, and climbed in. She later said they wanted to get as far away as possible, marry and start a new life. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Kara's friend Kayla Jefferies found Kara's phone on the road leading to the interstate and took it to the Lititz Borough police. this part of the story is covered for now The phones helped establish the direction the couple had taken.

Police treated Kara as a possible kidnap victim. The chief of police said they believed she had been taken against her will and that she was a victim until he heard otherwise. An Amber Alert was issued, the FBI joined the search because an interstate kidnapping was possible, and police across Pennsylvania and Indiana watched for the red Jetta. On the Monday morning, about twenty-four hours after the murders, a vehicle matching the description was reported at a truck stop near Fort Wayne, Indiana, but it was gone when state troopers arrived. The car was then spotted on I-70 near Belleville, Indiana. details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Kara jumped out screaming, "Don't hurt him." this part of the story is covered for now Police recovered a .40 calibre Glock, along with a Colt .45, a Ruger .45, a Ruger Mini-14 rifle, maps, clothing and newspaper reports of the killings. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now Her attorney, Robert Bryer, said she was a young girl who had seen her parents murdered and should not be blamed.

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it On the video they also discussed having sex with Kara and her sister and acknowledged that it would be statutory rape. this part of the story is covered for now About four hundred people attended the funeral of Michael and Kathy Borden.

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