Monday, June 17, 2013

Paula Cooper ... will leave prison after 24 years

The girls, Crawford said, "planned to kill (Pelke) from the get-go."
Cooper, who was identified as the ringleader in the murder-robbery, brought a 12-inch butcher knife when she and three friends went to Pelke's home on May 25, 1985.
Pelke welcomed the teens into her home after the girls said they were interested in Bible study lessons.
One of the teens then hit Pelke on the head with a vase, knocking her to the ground.
"Paula Cooper got on top of her and kept saying to her, and this is her own admission, 'Where's the money, b----?'" Crawford said.
When Pelke responded that she didn't have any money, Crawford said Cooper "started torturing her, slicing her with the butcher knife across her chest."
As Pelke lay on the floor, Crawford said the investigation revealed, "she was saying the Lord's Prayer as she died."

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