Eliza was a talented schoolgirl who wanted to become a psychologist or a forensic scientist.
She had been friends with her killers – a psychologically-scarred orphan and a drug-addicted Goth, who had a morbid obsession with death and had practised killing on two kittens.
All three teenagers had danced, smoked cannabis and snorted “ice”, or methylamphetamine, together at a party in Collie on June 17, 2006.
But the teenagers planned how to kill Eliza, dressing in old clothes and strangling her with speaker wire before they buried her body under the house.
They then reported Eliza missing and pretended to help with the search before finally turning themselves into police after deciding the grave was so shallow discovery was inevitable.
“We discussed what would happen if we sort of killed Eliza. . . we both admitted we wouldn’t care,” one of the girls said in her subsequent interview with shocked police.
“I said do you want to?. . . she said, yeah, and we did it.”
One of the teens strangled Eliza, while her accomplice held the struggling girl down and pressed a chemical-soaked cloth to their victim’s mouth.
The girl who twisted the wire around Eliza’s throat chillingly described to police how she watched her victim’s emotions shift from anger, to fear, to the realisation she was going to die.
“She was face up to me as I was doing it,” she said.
“She started to get scared, she started to cry. It was all blood coming out of her mouth.”
The other girl said: “She started not being able to get her breath, and we just kept going.
“She was just yelling at us `What the *crag*, what are you doing’. . . ‘Oh you freaks, what’s wrong with you psychos.”
They strangled 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 said.
“We knew it was wrong but it didn’t feel wrong at all, it just felt right.
“We were willing to take the risk.
“We said if we did get caught, shit happens, and we will deal with it.”
One of the girls said she regretted the devastating impact on Eliza’s family and friends but did not feel sad Eliza was dead.
Don't know if it's true or not... but it only persuades me to stick with the "kill a goth, save a sane person" mentality.
Ever heard of Reena Virk? Schoolgirl murdered in Victoria, B.C. I live not far from there, and I saw the place where she was killed with my own eyes (Obviously a few years after it happened), and it just feels unsettling, knowing somebody was killed there.
Ever heard of Reena Virk? Schoolgirl murdered in Victoria, B.C. I live not far from there, and I saw the place where she was killed with my own eyes (Obviously a few years after it happened), and it just feels unsettling, knowing somebody was killed there.
Oh wow! Someone was killed in front of house on the side walk =D It wasn't a preety sight either
