The Prosecution Says The Teen Planned To Kill In The Case Of A Twisted Love Triangle

LARGO - Assistant Attorney Lisset Hanewicz, wasted no time Wednesday morning to get to the bottom of the murder on Rachel Wade.  "I go to / ------ kill you," the prosecutor said the eight jurors. "This is what Rachel Wade said Sarah Ludemann 7 1 / 2 months before she took a knife and stabbed her in the heart of the night, she killed her.  Youth escalating confrontation over mutual friend left Ludemann, 18-year-old Pinellas Park high school student, dead, and Wade trial for second-degree murder this week in Pinellas County Criminal Justice Center.  Perceived threat to the prosecutor, used to run his opening remarks was voice mail from the state said Wade went Ludemann. There were more threats, she said, everything up to the spear.  "Rachel told friends:" I'm going to / ------ kill that bitch, "Hanewicz said." At night, she killed her, she had argued with Sarah on the phone. She said to her: "I'm going to hit you and your friend's Mexican.  She promised her. She did it, and here we are, as a result.
"  Wade, 20, faces up to life in prison if convicted. Protection has indicated that it could claim self-defense, although authorities say Wade used a kitchen knife to stab Ludemann, who was unarmed, in the heart, when she withdrew from her mother's minivan.  Love interest in the center of this deadly triangle Josh Camacho, who was directly involved as victims and the accused at the same time, as well as the father of a child with a third woman.  It's a complicated story to explain to the jury. The victims and the defendant's rivalry intensified with the help of text messages, voice mail, websites, social networks and physical confrontations. Case also entails a range of Pinellas Park teenagers that goes beyond the victim, the accused and their mutual friend, many of whom will testify this week.  Deadly confrontation took just a few seconds, that April 2009 night, the prosecutor told the jury.  "Once (Wade) sees ahead, she takes a knife and runs counter to the front of the van with a knife in his hand," said Hanewicz jury.  "It goes straight to Sarah. Everyone agrees, it happened in seconds.  "It was so fast, people do not realize it," said Hanewicz. "Rachel turns and leaves. Sarah, meanwhile, with a knife in the heart.  How Ludemann collapsed, the prosecutor said one of her friends - Janet Camacho, the boy's sister, as young women dating - with Wade shouted from the street.
 
But Wade did not use a knife in that fight.  "Rachel had never killed Janet, the prosecutor stated to the jury.  Defense attorney Jay Hebert refused his opening remarks, but the defense reserves the right to speak to the jury after the state rests.  In the courtroom 1, the largest courtroom in the building were packed for the trial. Bailiffs divided family members and friends of the victim and the accused on opposite sides of the courtroom.  Then, before the trial, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Joseph A. Bulone strictly warned both sides.  "There is going to be an emotional outburst from someone," said the judge. "If someone, they will lose their right to stay in the courtroom today, or any other day this week."  The state called its first witness Wednesday night, Ashley Lovelady, a friend of the victim.