GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A Gwinnett County teenager and her boyfriend who confessed to killing her grandparents have been indicted by a grand jury.
Detectives have testified in open court that Cassie Bjorge confessed to killing her grandparents, Wendy and Randall Bjorge, but also said she and her boyfriend, Johnny Ryder, planned to murder several other family members.
They are accused of not only killing Wendy and Randall Bjorge in early April, but trying to kill Ryder's sister and boyfriend.
Ryder’s sibling escaped, and that led to the teens' capture more than a week after the grandparents’ murders.
Police said the teens used a tire iron, hammer, baseball bat and butcher knives to beat and slice the throats of the grandparents, then caulked two doors inside the home, as well as the front door, to try and seal the smell of death inside.
Police said Bjorge admitted the teens stayed in the home smoking pot for days. The said the young couple invited friends over to party during that week.
Their friends had no idea what had happened as Bjorge’s grandparents’ bodies laid upstairs.
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