When Girls Kill

Rachel Wade (born on February 27, 1990) was convicted of murder in the second degree in the high-profile murder of Sarah Ludemann.

Rivalry with Sarah Ludemann

Rachel Wade and Sarah Ludemann were romantic rivals. The rivalry began after Wade's breakup with Joshua Camacho. Camacho began seeing Ludemann, much to Wade's dislike. In the first six months Ludemann was with Josh, the police spoke to Ludemann six times regarding public confrontations with Camacho. She got into a verbal argument with the mother of Josh's child. Joshua punched Ludemann in the face, but Ludemann did not press charges.

Wade left insulting voicemails for Ludemann. Their rivalry became more volatile. They began to harass one another and, according to Wade, Sarah would show up to an Applebees where Wade worked in order to taunt her. During one incident, Ludemann told police that Wade repeatedly called her cell phone and left threatening voicemails. Detectives admitted that Ludemann also made threats toward Wade. The rivalry would continue until Ludemann's death. Ludemann drove to where Wade was located and pulled Wade's hair. Wade's head was looking in the downward position and Wade flailed her arm with a knife. Ludemann was stabbed, resulting in her death.

Natasha Cornett, 24, is a self-described Satan worshipper serving three life sentences for the shooting deaths of a Knoxville couple and their 6-year-old daughter. Cornett and many other Kentucky teen-agers encountered the Lillelid family at a rest stop near Greeneville, Tenn., in 1997. The couple's 2-year-old son also was shot, but he lived.

Ely, now 22, is serving a life prison sentence for her role in the 2011 murder of Belleview resident Seath Jackson, 15.

Her co-defendant Justin Soto, now 24, is also serving a life term. Ringleader Michael Bargo, now 23, is on death row. The youngest co-defendants, Amber Wright, now 19, and her brother Kyle Hooper, now 20, were juveniles at the time of the murder but were tried as adults and each sentenced to life in prison. Recently, the 5th District Court of Appeal awarded Wright a new trial and Hooper a new sentencing. The state has appealed those decisions.

The case against James Havens, 41, an alleged accessory to the murder, is still pending.

During the trials, prosecutors argued Ely and Wright sought to lure Seath to Ely’s Summerfield home, where the men ganged up on him and beat and shot him, before wrapping his body in a sleeping bag and burning it in a backyard fire pit. The next day, the ashes were placed in paint buckets and discarded in a pool at the bottom of a lime rock quarry.

Tess Damm - In 2007, at the age of 16, Damm and her boyfriend stabbed her mother to death. In 2008, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison.