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US teen reported seized; parents killed
Updated: 2005-11-14 08:35
A 14-year-old girl was missing after her parents were shot to death in their
home Sunday morning in Lititz, Pennsylvania of the United States, and
authorities were searching for her 18-year-old boyfriend, who reportedly
abducted her at gunpoint.
Michael and Cathryn Borden, both 50, were found shot to death shortly after 8
a.m., Lititz Police Chief William Seace said.
The couple's 9-year-old son David, the youngest of five children, had fled to
a neighbor's house and called 911, Seace said. An older daughter still living at
home and two adult sons were also safe, he said.
But Kara Beth Borden, 14, was missing. Police said she was last seen that
morning at the family's home in Warwick Township, about 60 miles west of
Philadelphia, and was reportedly abducted at gunpoint.
The Borden family had lived in the home for several years, said neighbor Tod
Sherman, 47. Mike Borden worked for a printing company, and the children were
home-school, he said.
Sherman said the family knew the 18-year-old suspect, identified by police as
David G. Ludwig, through a home-schooling network. He said he had occasionally
seen the teen at the Bordens' home.
Stephanie Mannon, 16, said Ludwig and Kara Borden had been seeing each other
secretly.
"Their parents didn't approve of them being together" because of the age
difference, she said. "It wasn't because he was a shady character, because he
wasn't."
Neighbor John Hohman, 40, said his family got a phone call from Lancaster
County emergency management officials Sunday morning warning them to stay
inside. He said he looked out a window and saw police running through the
neighborhood. About an hour and half later, authorities told residents to go to
their basements.
"We were really upset. We didn't know what going on," Hohman said.
Hohman described Kara, who occasionally baby-sat for his family, as "a very
nice girl."
Sherman described her father as "very smart and focused, a nice guy."
"They were super people," he said.
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