Illinois- Two Mississauga teenage sisters convicted of murdering their mother talked about their arrest and sought sex from an operator of an Internet chat site based in Chicago before they went on trial, the Star has learned.
The girls, whose identities are protected by law, also sent pictures to the website, including several shots of the older sister posing naked.
As well, they reportedly provided information that had never before been revealed until their trial began Nov. 7, including that police had secretly videotaped conversations where they confessed to killing their mother.
"One guy had a camera hidden in his car, so he caught my bull----," a person identifying herself as the older sister tells the website operator in an online message board posting on Oct. 7 - a month before their trial began. "Now I'm under arrest. If I'm not convicted, I'll fill in the specifics."
She said their trial would start at the end of October. "It will be in the papers so I can't give any good details until it clears up. I'm looking at a life sentence over stories that were told by me and believed by kids.
"Someone died in an accident and I'm getting blamed. I am in awe of my stupidity. Regardless of the verdict, my story will be posted somewhere. The trial will take a few months though."
Peel police said they were unaware of the site or that the online conversations even existed until yesterday.
"But we're now going to be investigating this and having our tech crimes experts look into it," Peel homicide Insp. Jennifer Evans told the Star yesterday.
"I can't get away for a few more weeks because I'm under house arrest," a person claiming to be the older teen wrote on Nov. 25, after the trial was underway. "I have too many secrets."
The information comes after the sisters, now 19 and 18, were convicted of first-degree murder in the Jan. 18, 2003, drowning of their 44-year-old mother, who died in the bathtub of their Mississauga townhome.
They pleaded not guilty, with defence lawyers suggesting their alcoholic mother had drowned accidentally, as a coroner initially ruled.
Their crime went undetected for almost a year until one of their friends, who later agreed to be secretly videotaped with the sisters, went to police with information suggesting they had planned a deliberate murder of their mother, making it look like an accidental drowning while intoxicated.
The teens will undergo psychiatric examinations before they are sentenced in March. None of the newly discovered Internet chats revealed details about the murder, but they do provide further insight into their mental state.
Several Internet conversations presented as evidence during their eight-week trial showed the two girls, then 16 and 15, told several friends they were planning to murder their alcoholic mother by drowning her. They also talked with friends, online and in person, before and after the crime, about meeting at a restaurant afterward to establish an alibi, then making a well-rehearsed 911 call after coming home.
In another message board posting in September, the older teen tells the website operator she wants to have sex with him "when my legal issues clear up and I can leave the country." She promises to send pictures. The younger sister later asks if he's into threesomes.
