Those Wacky Heterosexuals

Curiosity Didn’t Kill, But 16-Year-Old Het Girls Did

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Two presumed heterosexual teenage girls in Western Australia killed a friend to see whether they would feel remorse. They didn’t. Their new sentences of life in prison, with a minimum sentence of 15 years, will give each time to develop something resembling a conscience.

The girls, both 16 at the time of the murder, strangled 15-year-old Eliza Jane Davis then buried her under a house. They told police they knew it was wrong to kill but it “felt right,” and they did not regret Davis’s death.

Perth Children’s Court president Denis Reynolds said the murder was “gruesome and merciless in the extreme.” The pair cannot be named because of their age.

While the three were staying at the same house in the coal-mining town of Collie, south of Perth, on June 18, 2006, the 16-year-olds had been discussing how neither would feel bad about committing murder when they decided to kill Davis, who was sleeping in another room. They dressed in old clothes, then strangled Davis with speaker wire and buried her body under the house.