Two teenage girls from Perth, Australia will be serving 15 years to life in prison for the murder of a 15-year-old friend at a sleepover last summer. What has shocked Australia (and the world) is the chillingly blase manner in which they formulated and carried out their fatal plan.
The two girls had been discussing whether or not they could (hypothetically) ever feel bad about murdering someone. They decided that the only to know for sure was to actually kill someone-- so they agreed to kill their friend who, having gone to bed earlier, was sleeping in the next room.
The girls changed into old clothes, got some speaker wire from the stereo, and strangled their friend, Eliza Davis, as she slept. The pair then dug a grave under the house and buried the body there. Their next move was to report their friend as missing, and went so far as to assist family and friends with the search. The deadly duo confessed their deed to the police only after deciding that the grave they had dug was too shallow, would eventually be discovered, and inevitably lead to their arrest.
Police and experts remained dumbfounded over the pair's sociopathic attitude toward the crime. According to news reports, the girls admitted that they knew it was wrong to kill, but told police in the end "that it felt right." In court, they also admitted that they did not regret Davis' death.
Because of their age, neither their names nor their photographs have been released.
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