Girls killed best friend because it "just felt right".
By Liza Kappelle
April 23, 2007 07:34pm
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TWO 16 year old schoolgirls who wanted to experience murder told police it "just felt right" to strangle a best friend and bury her body in a shallow grave beneath her West Australian home.
The now 17-year-old girls, who cannot be named due to their age, today faced a sentencing hearing in Perth Children's Court after pleading guilty to murdering Eliza Jane Davis in the small coal mining town of Collie on June 18, 2006.
As the pale, slightly built girls sat stony-faced in court today, Prosecutor Simon Stone said they had confessed that after partying with Eliza on the Saturday night they decided to kill her.
"Sunday morning me and (her) woke up, and we were just talking, and for some reason we just decided to kill her," one of the girls told police in her interview.
"We just did it because we felt like it, it is hard to explain," the other girl said.
"I knew we had wanted to kill someone before.
"We knew it was wrong, but it didn't feel wrong at all. It just felt right."
The girls planned their attack and changed into old clothes.
One of them snuck up behind Eliza as she was reading, wrapped speaker wire twice around her throat and quickly tightened it as the other held her down, trying to press a chemical soaked cloth into her mouth.
"She started not being able to get her breath, and we just kept going," one of the girls said.
"She began just yelling at us `What the f**k, what are you doing' .. `Oh you freaks, what's wrong with you psychos.' "
Mr Stone said they chose to strangle Eliza because one of them had to return to Perth that afternoon and they wanted a quick and "non-messy" killing.
"As our friend, we did not really want her to suffer," one told police.
"We didn't really expect to get away with it. We were willing to take the risk."
The girls regretted the fuss the killing caused but neither felt remorse for their dead friend, Mr Stone said.
"If she had died another way it probably would have bothered me, but it just did not," one girl said.
The girls reported Eliza missing after they buried her and pretended to help her family look for the dead girl.
The girls turned themselves in several days later, walking into separate police stations and directing authorities to where they buried her body.
Mr Stone told the court the girls had no remorse and were holding back on the reason behind their cold-blooded, premeditated, sadistic killing.
"It is a mystery your honour, what happened."
He said the girls had discussed killing someone else and one had prepared for homicide by killing two kittens.
"Whilst together (they) will continue to pose some risk to others in custody."
Mr Stone called for sentences of life in prison.
After sleeping together, the two girls woke about 10.30am and started talking about killing Miss Davis, who was in another bedroom. It was decided that one of them would strangle her with wire and the other would place a cloth soaked in chemicals over her mouth.
After the murder, the girls dragged the body out of the room and pushed it down a flight of stairs. They dug a shallow grave in the foundations of the house and covered the body with sand. They then reported Ms Davis missing but a few days later went to the police.
One of the girls told detectives: “I can’t remember how we got her into my room but she came and sat on the couch. I sat next to her and kept watching for the perfect opportunity.
“I leant down to the couch and wrapped the wire round her neck. I wrapped it around twice, pushed her forward, got behind her and kept going.
“The only thing I was thinking about was trying to pull it as tight as I could.”
‘She was face up to me as I was doing it . . . At first she said, “You freaks — you’ll never get away with it”.’
ONE OF THE TEEN KILLERS
She described how the other girl held a cloth over Miss Davis’ face as she struggled for her life.
The girl went on: “She was face up to me as I was doing it and then we moved to the floor. At first she said, ‘You freaks — you’ll never get away with it’. She added a bit of anger in it when she realised there was no chance she could get away. She started to get scared. She started to cry. It was all blood coming out of her mouth.”
Asked how she felt now, the girl replied: “I don’t feel that bad about the fact she is dead.”
The hearing continues tomorrow.
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How long b4 the Aussies make speaker wire illegal.
Girls killed best friend because it "just felt right". 
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