Nov 17, 2009 1:47 pm US/Pacific
Graphic Details Emerge In Teen Killing Case
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. (CBS13) ―
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Tylar Witt appeared in court Tuesday.
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Graphic details are emerging in an El Dorado County court as a judge tries to determine if a 14-year-old girl accused of killing her mom should be tried as an adult.
Prosecutors are seeking to have 14-year-old Tylar Witt tried as an adult for the death of her mother, 47-year-old Joanne Witt, who was found murdered in her home in June. Tylar and her 19-year-old boyfriend Steve "Boston" Colver were arrested a few days after the gruesome discovery at a Bay Area strip mall.
In a "fitness hearing" today on the charges, details of what may have allegedly prompted the murder were revealed. Witnesses testified that in the days before her murder, Joanne Witt gave police her daughter's diary which allegedly contained explicit sexual details about Steven.
Testimony reveals Joanne walked in a bedroom of her El Dorado home seeing Steven on the bed and finding Tylar in the closet. She was naked. On the ground there was a chain, leash, and collar. Joanne went to the cops.
CBS13's Koula Gianulias was in court during today's testimony. Koula says Tylar seemed humiliated when her diary was being read, especially the details about sex. Tylar hung her head and cover her face.
Also in the diary, Tylar allegedly wished that her mother would die. "I pray to God she gets in a car accident today after dropping me off. I hope her car slams into a truck…and she dies from a crushed skull and pelvis."
Other testimony contained allegations that Tylar drugged her mother with Vicodin on the night of the murder and then watched as Steven slashed her mother's neck and chest.
Later testimony detailed allegations that Tylar and Steven went to see friends after the murder, doing drugs, dyeing their hair and showing off a bloody knife.
It was also alleged in court that Tylar and Steven had planned to runaway to San Francisco and commit suicide with rat poison.
Witt's attorney said the teen girl will be tried alongside Colver in the same trial if she is prosecuted as an adult.
Her grandparents were in court today and sat on the side of the prosecution. The prosecution won't comment on whether or not the grandparents side with the girl or with the prosecution.
If convicted as an adult, Witt could face 25 years to life in prison.
Witt's defense plans to make its case on Thursday.
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