Holly Harvey was just 15 and Sandy Ketchum 16 when they brutally murdered Holly’s grandparents, Carl and Sarah Collier so they could run away together. Their freedom didn’t last long however and they will spend most of their lives in prison.
Carl and Sarah Collier were decent, good people. They were in their 70s and had been together their whole lives. They worked hard their whole lives, had traditional values and attended church regularly. They had adopted two children, a boy and a girl, Carla Harvey. Carla became a “wild teen” and was basically a terrible mother who was in and out of jail for drugs, so Holly had to live with her grandparents since her mother was in prison for drugs.
Carla Harvey let Holly do whatever she wanted. Holly had no rules to live by. She was a wild child, like her mother.
Holly hated living with her grandparents-because they had rules. They didn’t want her to do drugs, wanted her to go to school, get good grades and have a curfew. Holly just wanted to party, do drugs, have sex, and hang out with her friends. So Holly and her grandparents didn’t exactly get along. Carl and Sarah should have been enjoying their retirement instead of raising a teenage wild child. But Holly was their grandchild and they could’t turn her away. 
Sandy Ketchum was a lesbian who had a father and stepmother doing the best they could with her but she had a difficult past with a biological mom who abandoned her, an abusive ex-stepmother, and trouble with the law.
Sandy and Holly met in school. Holly was more talkative, flitatious, and outgoing while Sandy was on the quiet side. After becoming friends, Sandy fell in love with Holly and they began a relatioship though it wasn’t exclusive on Holly’s side. Soon after, Sandy’s family moved to another school district, but the girls still saw each other.
After getting in trouble together Holly’s grandparents forbid Holly to see Sandy and Sandy’s parents told Sandy to never see Holly again. Both sets of guardians knew the girls were bad news when together.
If only Holly had waited. If only she could have had a little patience and waited until her mother was released from jail, then she could have went back to a home with no rules, her grandparents wouldn’t be murdered and she wouldn’t spend most of her life in prison.
But Holly couldn’t wait. She wanted to get rid of her grandparents and all their rules and be free. She wanted to be with her girlfriend, go where she wanted, and do whatever she wanted. She didn’t like rules. Her grandparents wouldn’t let her see Sandy and interfered with her drug use and partying.
So Holly came up with a plan to kill her grandparents, steal her grandfathers truck and run away with Sandy. Sandy didn’t want to actually go along with the plan, but in the end she did.
Sandy snuck over to the Collier’s house where Holly had a basement bedroom. Holly had taken all of the kitchen knives and the girls practiced stabbing a picture. Then Holly started smoking marijuana to lure her grandmother downstairs. Her grandfather was out, but would be home soon.
Her grandmother came downstairs and when her back was turn, Holly stabbed her in the back. Sarah tried her best to defend herself, but she was no match for the stabbing teen. Carl came down next and managed to hold Holly down on the bed. Not able to kill both grandparents by herself, Holly called out, “Aren’t you going to help me?” At this time Sandy came out and joined in the murders. Both were stabbed multiple times until they were dead.
After the girls were sure both were dead, they grabbed all the jewelry they could find and the truck keys, then left without a plan and soaked in blood. They drove to a friends house to clean up, but once the friend saw them covered in blood, she refused to let them enter her house. Instead she let them use a hose and got them some towels. Asked what had happened Holly ended up telling the friend they had murdered her grandparents.
The teen girls were not smart criminals. They had no plan, didn’t know where they were going, and confessed right off.
As soon as Holly and Sandy drove away, the friend told her mother and they called the police. When the police investigated the Collier’s home, sure enough the found 2 bodies. They were immediately on the lookout for the stolen truck.
The teens made it all the way to the ocean off the Georgia coast. They made it to Tybee Island. The problem was, they had no money. And they didn’t know it, but the police were tracking their general location by their cell phones.
The girls met 2 brothers on the beach and were able to talk them into letting them spend the night while the boys’ mother worked night. The next morning, the boys’ mother came home to find 2 teenage girls asleep sleeping in a bedroom. When the girls woke up, Holly showed the mother the jewelry she stole from her grandparents and tried to sell it. The mother was not interested.
Meanwhile police had tracked their location to the block they were on and were scouring the area. Next thing they knew, two dozen police officers broke the door down and arrested the girls. As Holly walked past all the officers, she laughed as if she enjoyed the attention and found it funny. A knife was found in Sandy’s pocket.
The girls went to court in spring of 2005 in Fayetteville, Georgia and ended up entering plea bargains. They will spend at least 20 years in prison, possibly much longer depending on if they get paroled.
What a waste.

A book has been written about the crime. It’s called “All I want to do is kill” by Dale Hudson. For the complete story, get the book.
All I Want To Do Is Kill (Pinnacle True Crime)