Ashley Marie Barger and Nicole 'Jade' Olmstead Charged in the Death Of Brandy Stevens-Rosine / No Death Penalty Sought!

Posted: 07/27/2012 7:07 pm Updated: 07/27/2012 7:09 pm
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Ashley Marie Barber (left) and Nichole "Jade" Olmstead are accused of killing Brandy Stevens-Rosine.
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The body of Brandy Stevens-Rosine, 20, was found beaten, choked, and buried alive, allegedly by her former lover, Jade Olmstead, and Barber's new lover, Ashley Barber.

VERNON, Pa. -- Authorities say two lesbian lovers tortured and murdered 20-year-old Brandy Stevens-Rosine, an Ohio college student who was beaten and buried alive in a shallow grave behind the women's secluded home.

Details of the May killing were revealed for the first time at a preliminary hearing this week for Ashley Marie Barber, 20, and Nichole "Jade" Olmstead, 18, who a judge ordered to stand trial on charges of homicide and conspiracy.

Krysti Horvat, a close friend of Stevens-Rosine, was in court to hear police and prosecutors present the gruesome evidence. "The night before the detectives told us some of the details so we would not be so terribly surprised, but even after that it was still shocking to hear what Brandy went through," Horvat told The Huffington Post. "She was like the little sister that everyone would want to have, and for her to be brutally murdered is unfathomable."

Stevens-Rosine, a popular sociology student at Youngstown State University, left her home in Beaver Township, Ohio, on the morning of May 17 for an impromptu meeting with Olmstead, whom she had once dated. Despite the breakup, the two remained in regular contact.

"Brandy had been in love with Jade, and they were together about a year before they broke up," Horvat said. "Jade then started going with Ashley, but anytime Jade needed anything Brandy was there. She had even recently driven to Baltimore to give Jade a ride to where she wanted to go."

The reason for Stevens-Rosine's get-together with her old flame remains unclear. Stevens-Rosine drove 75 miles northeast, across the state line and into Pennsylvania. Her destination was a home on Drake Hill Road in Wayne Township, Crawford County, east of Cochranton, owned by Barber's parents. Barber and Olmstead had been living together at the address.

After winding her way through a maze of roads that led her deep into the woods of Crawford County, Stevens-Rosine began the final leg of her journey. It took her through acres of isolated back hills, indiscriminately sliced into rudimentary sections by dusty dirt roads. Thick canopies of trees envelop portions of the road, and it’s not uncommon for the piercing sun to cast spooky shadows onto the landscape. As she neared her Drake Hill Road destination, Stevens-Rosine sent a text message to a friend, saying she had a "funny feeling."

Two days later, Stevens-Rosine's family reported her missing to the Beaver Township police. Authorities said they were concerned because the young woman was diabetic and did not have her medication, but they did not immediately suspect foul play.

"These are always tough cases because obviously a 20-year-old girl has the ability to leave and not have people hound her, looking for her," Beaver Township Police Chief Carl Frost later told Youngstown's WYTV.

Before she'd left home, Stevens-Rosine told her grandmother she was going to visit a friend, but did not say where. Horvat had never been to Barber's home before and didn't know where Stevens-Rosine went. But she had the address Stevens-Rosine had texted the day she went missing. On May 20, she travelled to Pennsylvania to search for her friend.

"I drove to Drake Hill Road, but it was at nighttime and it looked like a dirt road in the middle of nowhere. I couldn't see her car and I couldn't see tire tracks, so I left," Horvat said.

The following day, Stevens-Rosine's cellphone pinged a tower in Meadville, Pa., right outside of Cochranton. On May 22, Horvat returned to the area with Stevens-Rosine's mother and grandparents to go door-to-door on Drake Hill Road. As it turned out, one of the homes they visited belonged to the Barber family.

"We spoke to Ashley and Jade in the front yard and they claimed they hadn't seen her, so we went home with more questions than answers," Horvat said.

Later that day, Pennsylvania state troopers went to the Barber residence and located Stevens-Rosine's 2002 Kia Rio in the driveway. According to Horvat, the vehicle had not been parked in the driveway earlier that day. Troopers seized the car, but found no sign of Stevens-Rosine.

The next day, Stevens-Rosine's mother, Carrie Rosine, posted a message about her daughter's disappearance to the Facebook page of radio station Majic 99.3 and 104.5. It read, in part:

"The PA State police have found her car last night ... [Barber and Olmstead] had been questioned the night before and told the police that Brandy never made it there ... Then last night they stated that Brandy came there and got a ride from another friend. They [said they] never saw the car, they never saw the person that picked her up; that she walked down the dirt road to get picked up."

Rosine said her daughter's vehicle had been "completely cleaned out." She also said Ashley Barber had been taken to the hospital for an injury.

"Barber coincidentally went to the emergency room from falling down the basement stairs right around the time Brandy went missing," she posted on the Facebook page.

Rosine did not elaborate and told HuffPost on Thursday, "They advised us not to talk to the press."

Not long after Rosine's May 23 Facebook post, police notified her that they had found a shallow grave a few hundred yards from the Barber residence. An examination of the makeshift plot revealed the partially decomposed body of Brandy Stevens-Rosine.

Crawford County Coroner Scott Schell pronounced Stevens-Rosine dead. Investigators took three hours to exhume the remains.

Following an autopsy, Schell told The Meadville Tribune that Stevens-Rosine had "multiple injuries from multiple different objects ... to a large percentage of her body."

On May 24, state police sent out a press release that said, "Barber and Olmstead both admitted to their role in killing [Stevens-Rosine] and the burying of her body."

Barber and Olmstead were arraigned on charges of criminal homicide, conspiracy and tampering with physical evidence.

Horvat attended the funeral for Stevens-Rosine and read from a eulogy she penned.

"All Brandy wanted was to be herself in a world without prejudice, and I believe Brandy achieved that goal the best she could. Brandy was an inspiration to others. She taught others not to fear who you are, but to embrace his or her self. ... She shared 20 years with us, and now it is time to cherish those years."

The two defendants were jailed without bond and appeared in court for their preliminary hearing on Wednesday.

State Trooper Eric Mallory told Magisterial District Judge Michael Rossi that Olmstead and Barber had invited Stevens-Rosine to their home on May 17. They lured her into the woods behind the home, under the pretense of seeing a fort the couple was building, and savagely attacked her.

Mallory said the two women admitted punching and kicking Stevens-Rosine and placed a "Saw" hat in her mouth to quiet her screams. "Saw" is a horror movie series about a fictional diabolical psychotic called "Jigsaw" who psychologically tortures.

"She was screaming for her life," Mallory testified.

They knocked Stevens-Rosine to the ground, the trooper said. Barber put a rope around her neck and strangled her while Olmstead hit Stevens-Rosine in the head with a shovel, Mallory said.

According to the trooper, Olmstead said she hit Stevens-Rosine four or five times in the head and could see Stevens-Rosine's brains protrude from the gaping wounds. Mallory said Barber hurt herself head-butting Stevens-Rosine, then repeatedly pounded the victim's head against a stump.

"She was on the victim's back with her knee in her spine, pulling her head back with the rope ... and letting it hit the stump," Mallory said.

When the fight was drained from Stevens-Rosine, the two girls rolled her into a shallow grave they had dug prior to the assault, Mallory said. When the women found Stevens-Rosine still breathing, they smashed her face with a large rock and poured water into her nose and mouth to drown her, the trooper said.

Barber "said that her worst fear was being buried alive," Mallory said. "She was trying to kill her."

According to the autopsy report, Stevens-Rosine suffered blunt force trauma, a skull fracture and 15 lacerations to the scalp. Her death, according to Erie County forensic pathologist Eric Vey, was caused by suffocation from dirt in her airway. Crawford County District Attorney Francis Schultz said Stevens-Rosine had been buried alive.

Mallory explained the evidence-tampering charge during the hearing, saying the defendants buried the "Saw" hat, a blood-soaked sweatshirt and the bloody rock used to smash Stevens-Rosine in the face. The hat, Mallory said, had been used, "to pick up what [Barber] referred to as meat or brains."

Barber initially told police her father had committed the murder because he was not tolerant of homosexuals, Mallory said. The women later admitted to killing Stevens-Rosine, police said.

The defense hasn't commented on the case. Schultz, the D.A., declined to comment on a possible motive. Horvat said she thinks her friend was killed out of jealousy.

The accused killers are being held without bail at the Crawford County Correctional Facility and are scheduled to be arraigned on Aug. 24. Schultz said he will decide whether his office will pursue the death penalty prior to that hearing.

"Brandy didn't deserve this at all," Horvat said. "She was a great person and I think about her every day, because she was that kind of friend."

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UPDATED: JULY 26, 2012 12:08 PM EST
Police: Cochranton homicide victim buried alive
BY VALERIE MYERS, Erie Times-News
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MEADVILLE -- Brandy M. Stevens, 20, was still alive but probably beyond feeling pain when a woman she had loved helped to bury her.

Jade N. Olmstead, 18, and her new lover, Ashley M. Barber, told police that they invited Stevens to their Cochranton-area home on May 17 and then savagely beat and choked her and buried her in a grave they had waiting, state police Trooper Eric Mallory testified during a preliminary hearing for the two women Wednesday.

Both will stand trial on charges of homicide and conspiracy to commit homicide, Vernon Township District Judge Michael Rossi ruled. Mallory testified that Barber and Olmstead admitted to the killing and described their relationship and their relationship to the victim in separate interviews with police.

Olmstead greeted Stevens and lured her into the woods near the home that she shared with Barber and Barber's parents in Wayne Township, to see a crude fort that she and Ashley Barber were building. Barber was hiding there. At the fort, the two women began punching and kicking Stevens and stuffed a "Saw" cap into her mouth to stop her pleading for her life and screaming.

"They said they were freaking out from her screams," Mallory said.

Stevens was knocked to the ground by the two women. Barber put a rope around her neck and strangled her while Olmstead alternately hit her in the head with a shovel and helped to choke her, Mallory said.

Barber also repeatedly pounded Stevens' head against a stump and told police that a bruise on her own forehead came from head-butting Stevens' besides.

"She was on the victim's back with her knee in her spine, pulling her head back with the rope ... and letting it hit the stump," Mallory said.

The two women rolled Stevens into a shallow grave that they had prepared for her at the fort. When they saw that she was still breathing, they threw a large rock onto her face and poured water into her mouth and nose.

"She said that her worst fear was being buried alive," Mallory said of Barber. "She was trying to kill her."

The results of an autopsy by Erie County forensic pathologist Eric Vey showed that Stevens suffocated on dirt, police Trooper Phillip Shaffer testified.

Barber and Olmstead originally told police that Stevens had come to visit, then left her car there and walked up the road with her belongings to meet a friend, Mallory said. Barber said that she'd gotten the bruise on her head in a fall down the cellar stairs.

She later told police that her father had killed Stevens because Stevens "looked like a boy" and her father wasn't very tolerant of homosexuality, Mallory said. The women admitted killing Stevens after police told them that they'd found her grave.

Barber and Olmstead will also stand trial on an evidence tampering charge. The women burned some of the victim's belongings as well as some of their own clothes that they bloodied during the killing, Mallory said.

They buried the bloody rock, one of the women's blood-soaked Ohio State University hoodie and the "Saw" cap with Stevens.

"The black hat was used to pick up what she (Ashley Barber) referred to as meat or brains," Mallory said.

Stevens' grandmother, Kathy Stevens, sobbed during the graphic descriptions of the killing. She earlier sobbed on the makeshift witness stand in the Vernon Township Building meeting room. The hearing was moved there, from Rossi's smaller courtroom, to accommodate families and friends of the victim and the accused.

Kathy Stevens described seeing her granddaughter for the last time when she left home on May 17. She reported her missing to Beaver Township police on May 19 after her granddaughter didn't answer or return any of her phone calls.

Cell phone records and a relative's tip shifted the search for the young woman to the Cochranton area, and to Olmstead and Barber. Police found Brandy Stevens' car in a driveway at the Barber home and an unexplained stain nearby on Drake Hill Road and called for a cadaver dog.

"You could smell a certain odor of decay at certain times, depending on which way the wind was blowing," police Trooper John Michalak said.

Stevens, also known as Brandy Stevens-Rosine, was a student at Youngstown State University, where she was studying sociology, according to her obituary in the Youngstown Vindicator.

"She was a wonderful person," Tera Haines, of Boardman, Ohio, said. "She was nine years younger than me but was like a mother to me. She was very, very nice."

Haines was at Wednesday's preliminary hearing for Barber and Olmstead.

"I'm here for justice for my friend," Haines said.

Barber and Olmstead are being held at the Crawford County Correctional Facility in Saegertown. Rossi on Wednesday denied a defense attorney's request for bail for Barber.

Crawford County District Attorney Francis Schultz will decide whether to seek the death penalty for the two women.

"That's something that I will decide before the arraignment," Schultz said.

The women will be arraigned in Crawford County Court on Aug. 24.

VALERIE MYERS can be reached at 878-1913 or by e-mail. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNmyers.

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Graphic details released in murder of Brandy Stevens of Beaver Township

Updated: Jul 25, 2012 9:05 PM CDT
By Michelle Nicks, Reporter

MEADVILLE, Pennsylvania - A painful and emotional day in a Pennsylvania courtroom as gruesome details are revealed about how 20-year-old Brandy Stevens of Beaver Township was murdered.

Magistrate District Judge Michael Rossi has now bound the case over to the county court, determining that there is enough evidence to put the two women accused of killing Stevens on trial.

District Attorney Francis Shultz told reporters they will now have to decide on whether this is a death penalty case.

Pennsylvania State Police investigators say the Youngstown State student was lured to her death by her ex-girlfriend and another young woman, and then tortured and thrown in to a shallow grave.

And what was the motive for the crime; unresolved issues that developed during their relationship.

As court was set to begin, the proceedings were moved from the Magistrate's Office on Perry Highway to the Vernon Township Municipal Building across the street. The municipal building was better suited to handle the volume of people who were in attendance.

Shortly before the two women accused of the bizarre and brutal killing were escorted in to the hearing handcuffed and under tight security, the younger sister of the murder victim was overcome with emotion, and had to be comforted by her mother.

Brandy Stevens was a diabetic and was reported missing by her grandmother when she failed to return home on May 17th.

Six days later, the victim's ex-girlfriend 18-year-old Jade Olmstead was charged with the murder, along with Olmstead's new love interest, 20-year-old Ashley Barber.

Pennsylvania State Police found the victim's body buried in Cocharnton, Pennsylvania near Meadville. A cadaver dog led them to the scene located just yards away from where the two suspects lived.

Linda Ser, whose four daughters were all friends with the victim says, "This was the worst experience I had to go through in my life. Hearing the details. It's one thing to lose a child, but to lose a child in the manner that they took her life angers me. And I feel so bad for her mother and all those who loved her."

Amando Tondo, who worked with the victim in Boardman, had tears in her eyes. "It's shocking that somebody can do this to somebody that they supposedly loved."

A long-time close friend of the victim, Tera Haines says, "Brandy was the greatest person probably that I've ever known, and it shouldn't even be happening."

As investigators testified that an autopsy showed Stevens had blunt force trauma to the head, 15 lacerations to her scalp, a skull fracture and a rope around her neck, several of the victim's family members understandably left the courtroom in tears.

The coroner's report said there was evidence of suffocation and brown liquid in her nasal passages.

Pennsylvania State Trooper Phil Shaffer, with the Criminal Investigation Unit, testified that it is his understanding from the coroner's findings that the victim did not die from the rope around her neck, but suffocated from the dirt that entered her system.

Trooper Eric Mallory who investigated the case and interviewed the suspects says the two young women confessed to the planned and brutal attack on the victim saying they lured her to the wooded area where they dug the shallow grave. That's where they repeatedly beat her using a shovel at one point, and also using a rope in an attempt to strangle her.

Investigator Mallory says the women admitted that Stevens was still alive when she was placed in the grave. So they grabbed a large rock and threw it on the victim's face, and then poured water in her mouth and nose saying they saw it gurgle and then it stopped.

What's most haunting, the suspects told state police the victim screamed and begged for her life, and she even promised not to tell anyone if the two alleged killers would just let her go.

The suspects will be arraigned in Crawford County Court on August 24th and then the case will be set for trial.

Meanwhile, friends of the victim have set up an account with Huntington Bank, hoping to collect enough money to build a statue or some type of memorial for Brandy Stevens.

The victim was cremated so they hope to create something lasting in her memory.

Donations can be made to the Brandy Rosine Memorial Fund at any Huntington Bank location. There is also a link on Facebook to a Paypal account.

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Posted: 08/27/2012 3:46 pm

MEADVILLE, Pa. -- Prosecutors here will not seek the death penalty for two lesbian lovers accused in the murder of Brandy Stevens-Rosine, an Ohio college student who was beaten and buried alive in a shallow grave.

Crawford County District Attorney Francis J. Schultz said he made the decision "after careful consideration of the law and the facts that have been uncovered in the investigation of this case."

Ashley Marie Barber, 20, and Nichole "Jade" Olmstead, 18, are charged with one count each of criminal homicide, conspiracy to commit criminal homicide and tampering with physical evidence. According to Pennsylvania state police, Barber and Olmstead have both admitted to their role in killing Stevens-Rosine.

Schultz described Stevens-Rosine's murder as "brutal," but said the allegations alone are "not sufficient to warrant the seeking of the death penalty under Pennsylvania law."

Stevens-Rosine's close friend, Krysti Horvat, told The Huffington Post she is confused by Schultz decision.

"It seems like he is taking it easy on them," Horvat said. "Does this mean I can plan out a murder, dig a grave, kill a person, then live off of tax payer's money in jail for the rest of my life?"

"No sort of punishment will bring Brandy back, so I have reluctantly accepted the DA's decision," Horvat added.

At a preliminary hearing in July, shocking and graphic details of Stevens-Rosine's homicide became public.

The 20-year-old sociology student at Youngstown State University was, according to state police, lured by Barber and Olmstead to their residence in Crawford County, Pa., on May 17. Stevens-Rosine had once dated Olmstead.

Two days later, Stevens-Rosine's family reported her missing. On May 23, authorities found Stevens-Rosine's partially decomposed remains in a shallow grave a few hundred yards from the residence where Barber and Olmstead were staying.

Crawford County Coroner Scott Schell performed the autopsy and found Stevens-Rosine had multiple injuries, from multiple objects, to a large percentage of her body.

State Trooper Eric Mallory testified at the preliminary hearing that Olmstead and Barber had invited Stevens-Rosine to their home, lured her into the woods, and savagely attacked her.

Mallory said the two women admitted punching and kicking Stevens-Rosine. After the beating, Barber put a rope around the girl's neck and strangled her while Olmstead hit Stevens-Rosine in the head with a shovel, Mallory said.

According to the trooper, Olmstead said she hit Stevens-Rosine four or five times in the head and could see Stevens-Rosine's brain protruding from the gaping wounds. Mallory said Barber hurt herself head-butting Stevens-Rosine, then repeatedly pounded the victim's head against a stump.

The two girls rolled her into a shallow grave they had dug prior to the assault, Mallory said. When the women found Stevens-Rosine still breathing, they smashed her face with a large rock and poured water into her nose and mouth to drown her, the trooper said.

According to the autopsy report, Stevens-Rosine suffered blunt force trauma, a skull fracture and 15 lacerations to the scalp. Her death, according to Erie County forensic pathologist Eric Vey, was caused by suffocation from dirt in her airway. In court, Schultz said Stevens-Rosine had been buried alive.

Pursuant to the law of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a prosecutor may only seek the death penalty in a case of an alleged first-degree murder if at least one of eighteen aggravating circumstances is present.

"In this case there is no evidence to prove any of the death penalty's qualifying aggravating circumstance beyond a reasonable doubt," Schultz said without elaborating.

According to Pennsylvania law, criminal homicide constitutes murder of the first-degree when it is "committed by an intentional killing." Aggravating circumstances, such as those that could warrant the death penalty, include instances where the "offense was committed by means of torture."

The defense hasn't commented on the case and Stevens-Rosine's mother, Carrie Rosine, has not shared her opinion on the DA's decision. The distraught mother told HuffPost she has been advised not to talk to the press.

If convicted, Barber and Olmstead face a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without parole.

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If the death penalty is warranted for any case, it is this one! OMG how that girl must have suffered...and to die from dirt in the airways because she was buried alive!? These two will probably enjoy themselves in prison for life, finding numerous girlfriends, willing and unwilling. JMO.

I completely AGREE w/your opinion, Lisette!

Published: Sat, September 29, 2012 @ 12:03 a.m.

Murder victim’s friend, mother lead memorial fundraising drive

By Ashley Luthern
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NORTH LIMA

The acoustic song “Swing Life Away” will stay with Krysti Horvat forever.

Horvat, a junior at Youngstown State University, and a few others had the phrase “Swing Life Away” tattooed in honor of their friend, 20-year-old Brandy Stevens-Rosine, who was murdered last spring.

“It was one of her favorite songs. The song is so mellow, just like her,” said Horvat, who said the tattoos were modeled after one Stevens-Rosine had.

The words “Swing Life Away” from the song by Rise Against also are printed on bracelets for sale to benefit a memorial fund for Stevens- Rosine, who was studying sociology at YSU.

Horvat and Carrie Rosine, Brandy’s mother, will offer the bracelets at Sunday’s Boardman Rotary Oktoberfestival for a suggested donation of $3 per bracelet or two for $5.

The funds will be used for a memorial bench, and possibly a tree, at YSU and to create a scholarship at Boardman High School.

Stevens-Rosine was found dead May 23, buried in a shallow grave in Cochranton, Pa., after leaving her Beaver Township residence May 17. Two women are charged with criminal homicide in her death.

The cost for the memorial bench is $2,500, and the cost of the tree is $1,500, said Rosine, who added she knows friends and loved ones need a physical place to remember her daughter.

“One reason we put the bench idea together was that people were asking where she was buried to pay their respects. I had her cremated; I wasn’t going to bury her again,” Rosine said. “I know her friends need some place to go and talk to her.”

They’ve already raised about $900 and are hoping to add more funds and awareness this weekend.

“Since Brandy attended Boardman High School, a lot of people knew her. We thought the Oktoberfestival would be a great opportunity to be around people who knew her: friends, teachers and others,” Rosine said.

Rosine said her daughter was involved in so much in Boardman, from volunteering at the library to playing upright bass in the high school orchestra.

Her daughter’s love of music was the inspiration for the proposed scholarship qualifications of having at least a 2.5 grade-point average and planning to major in music, music theory or the performing arts. Rosine hopes the scholarship will be in place for the 2013 graduation.

She also has planned to offer prize baskets at the Oktoberfestival booth to benefit the memorial fund. The baskets will include a shirt or hat of her daughter’s.

“She was known for always wearing a different shirt. She had so many different ones in all colors,” Rosine said. “... And it didn’t matter who you were; she was so caring she would give you the shirt off her back.”

Horvat, who designed the bracelets and many of the memorial fund materials, said she thinks about her friend often.

“It’s hard to put into words. She lit up a room when she walked in, and you could tell her anything. ... She was smart and witty and energetic,” Horvat said.

Donations can be made at any Huntington Bank branch to the Brandy Stevens Rosine Memorial Fund.

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January 11, 2013
Meadville Tribune

MEADVILLE — The homicide trial for two young Cochranton area women accused of luring an Ohio woman to their Wayne Township home in May and killing her has been postponed until at least March while the two women undergo mental health evaluations.

At a hearing this morning in Crawford County Court of Common Pleas, Judge Mark Stevens ordered a psychiatric hearing for Ashley Marie Barber to determine if Barber is mentally competent to stand trial and whether she understands the criminal responsibility for the crimes for which she is charged.

Stevens also ordered a psychiatric exam for Jade Marie Olmstead but that exam is to determine if Olmstead understands her potential culpability in the case.

The two women are accused of luring Brandy M. Stevens, 19, of Beaver Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, to their home in Wayne Township in May, brutally beating her and burying her in the woods while Stevens was still alive.

Barber, 19, and Olmstead, 19, both of 29558 Drake Hill Road, Cochranton, each are charged with one count each of criminal homicide, conspiracy to commit criminal homicide and tampering with physical evidence.

They were scheduled to go on trial during the January criminal term of county court that starts Monday.

Both Barber and Olmstead are being held in the Crawford County jail in Saegertown without bond while they await trial.

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I don't know how I missed this case but this has to be one of the most brutal! OMG I couldn't even finish reading what was done to those poor girls! And it doesn't warrant the DP?

Just because their crime was brutal and unsophisticated, the trial was postponed so these 2 could be psychologically evaluated. Attorneys again proving that they will grasp at every straw available to them to slow the Judicial Process. Are the days of speedy trials gone forever?

Perfect example of the slow turning wheels of Justice