Michael Benson's True Crime Bundle (113 page)

Blissfully unaware of any future irony, Rachel Wade posed for this joke photo. She is sitting on a bar in torn stockings, wearing a bonnet, holding a handgun, and the caption reads,
Wanted!

The victim was a big girl, five-nine, and had struggled with a weight problem. Once she had a man, though, she went on a crash diet and lost thirty pounds.
(Photo courtesy Lisa Marie Lafrance)

A late bloomer, Sarah Ludemann was a senior in high school when she had her first boyfriend. Her willingness to fight for him proved fatal.
(Yearbook photo)

Sarah Ludemann died in the street, a gaping stab wound in her left breast. The first cop on the scene called it “the biggest puncture wound” he’d ever seen.
(Yearbook photo)

Rachel’s friend Egle Nakaite said, “People sometimes thought Rachel was prissy, but she wasn’t, once you got to know her.”
(Photo courtesy Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office)

Javier Laboy’s house. The street in front of the house is well marked with rubber patches, laid down by cars entering or exiting the scene hurriedly.
(Photo courtesy Pinellas Park Police Department)

Rachel Wade was thoroughly interrogated, only hours after the stabbing. At first, she said she had no idea how Sarah was stabbed.
(Photo courtesy Pinellas Park Police Department)

When she was informed that Sarah was dead, Rachel Wade burst into tears and admitted that she was the one who’d wielded the knife.
(Photo courtesy Pinellas Park Police Department)

Journalist Lane DeGregory was covering Sarah Ludemann’s death for the
St. Petersburg Times
when she learned she’d won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.
(Photo by Tucker DeGregory)

Rachel Wade (right) dropped out of high school and left home so she could spend more time hanging out and hooking up.
(Photo courtesy Lisa Marie Lafrance)

Lisa Lafrance, who has described her body type as “more to love,” shows off her beach body in a photo she took of herself for her Facebook page.
(Photo courtesy Lisa Marie Lafrance)

The Camacho boys were playas—and fertile. Jay (pictured) had a baby with Jamie Severino. His younger brother Joshua impregnated Erin Slothower, and was sexually involved with both the victim and her killer.
(Photo courtesy Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office)