Jon Holato

Two 17-year-old Australian girls faced sentencing yesterday in Perth Children’s Court after pleading guilty to murdering Eliza Jane Davis, their friend, on June 18, 2006. The two girls wanted to experience murder and told the police that it “felt right” to strangle a friend and bury her body beneath her West Australian home.

As the girls sat in court, the prosecutor said they had confessed that after partying with Eliza on a Saturday night they decided to kill her the next morning.

“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.

What exactly was their motive?

“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.”

Apparently the girls snuck up behind Eliza when she was reading, one wrapped speaker wire twice around her throat and started pulling while the other girl held her down and tried to place 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 was just yelling at us ‘What the f**k, what are you doing’ .. ‘Oh you freaks, what’s wrong with you psychos.’”

Are the girls showing any remorse you might ask?

“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. If she had died another way it probably would have bothered me … but it just did not,” one girl said.

Frankly I’m at a loss for words on this one. How three girls could go from friends one night to two of the three killing the other in the morning is just more than I am able to comprehend. I know there are a lot of non-religious individuals out there who do not believe in demons or evil, but I welcome any opinions from them on what else could have brought about such blatant, cold-hearted brutality.