Teens Sought In Pa. Murders Found

A Pennsylvania teenager suspected of killing his girlfriend's parents in an argument over her curfew was captured in Indiana on Monday with the girl in his car after a police chase that ended in a crash. The 14-year-old girl was not hurt, authorities said.

David Ludwig, 18, and Kara Beth Borden were taken into custody around midday after he crashed his parents' car head-on into a tree in Belleville, some 600 miles from where the killings took place.

Investigators said it was not immediately clear whether the girl was abducted or went along willingly, but they were operating on the assumption she was kidnapped. Police said they were questioning Ludwig, but since Borden is a minor, she has not yet been questioned.

"It's completely insane, completely insane," Lancaster County, Pa., Coroner G. Gary Kirchner said. "This isn't a Romeo-and-Juliet deal. This is far worse than that."

Authorities said Ludwig shot Kara's parents, Michael F. and Cathryn Lee Borden, early Sunday after they and their daughter argued about her curfew when she came home late. The shootings happened at the family's home near Lititz, Pa., about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.

An alert for the girl was issued across the East, and police in Pennsylvania and Indiana investigated reported sightings of the pair as they made their way west in a red Volkswagen Jetta. They were stopped in Belleville, about 20 miles west of Indianapolis.

The two had been spotted at a central Pennsylvania gas station Monday morning, but were not caught then.

The shift manager at a truck stop Subway shop in Lamar, about 90 miles from Borden's home, said she sold the couple an Italian sub at about 9 a.m. on Monday, and thought they matched a radio description she had heard earlier.

"Her face was all puffy, her eyes were puffy," Amanda Workman told The Associated Press. "You could tell she was crying."

Workman said the young couple paid cash and had apparently made another purchase from a different part of the truck stop.

"They were really shady. They didn't want to talk a lot. They just ordered their sandwich and left," Workman said.

Workman said the photograph police showed her of Kara Borden matched closely, and recalled that she was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with a printed pattern. Ludwig's hair is now much shorter.

"The guy that I seen had short hair, like he had shaved his head," Workman said.

Workman called police right away, first to get a better description and then to report a possible sighting. It took police about 20 minutes to respond, she said.

Police said they chased the pair about four miles at about 95 mph before the collision. Indiana State Trooper David Cox said Borden was frantic, crying hysterically and screaming.

Kara's 13-year-old sister, Katelyn, told investigators her parents were shot after they argued with Ludwig for about an hour, according to court papers.

Katelyn said she saw Ludwig shoot her father, and then ran into the bathroom, where she heard a second shot, presumably the one that killed her mother, court papers said. Ludwig then ran through the house calling for Kara, she told investigators.

The couple's 9-year-old son ran to the neighbors, who called 911.

Police late Sunday issued an arrest warrant for Ludwig on charges of criminal homicide and kidnapping.

Stephanie Mannon, 16, said Ludwig and Kara 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."

Both Ludwig and Kara maintain Web sites. Hers refers to interests in soccer, art and her Christian faith; his says he enjoys "having soft air gun wars" and claims expertise in "getting in trouble."

"(Cathryn) was concerned that Kara was boy crazy like many young teens, but she was e-mailing back and forth and she poured her heart out to me, 'What should I do,' and 'What a situation,' you know, trying to avoid tragedy," family friend Reba Zimmerman said on CBS News' The Early Show.

The Bordens, both 50, were apparently shot once each in the head, authorities said. Mike Borden worked for a printing company, and the children were home-schooled, said neighbor Tod Sherman.

Neighbors say Kara Beth and Ludwig were both home schooled and knew each other through a home school network, reports CBS News correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi.

It was the second violent episode in a week in normally quiet Lititz, a Lancaster County village known for quaint shops, artists and Sturgis Pretzel House, which bills itself as America's first pretzel bakery. On Tuesday, police shot and killed a 23-year-old man after he shot and wounded an officer who had gone to his house to arrest him on a traffic charge.