Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf were an interesting duo of child murderers and were practically straight out of a horror movie

Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf

Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf were an interesting duo of child murderers and were practically straight out of a horror movie. The two girls were only 15 and 14 years old, respectively, on June 14, 1983, when the duo would come together to commit one of the most senseless crimes of all time: the murder of Anna Bracket, an 85-year-old woman.

The girls simply walked right up to the elderly woman’s door, knocked, and explained that they were being followed by strange men. They proceeded to ask this caring woman if they could use her phone to call for help, to which she agreed. That’s when the two seemingly innocent young girls would strike.

Collier was definitely the brains and the evil behind the plot to kill an innocent grandmother, and Wolf probably just went along for the ride. Cindy Collier had a long history of violence and criminal acts, including burglary, theft, possession of drugs, and a foreshadowing charge of assault. Like all too many child murderers, Cindy had been sexually assaulted and raped at a very young age.

Wolf came from a background of sexual assault as well. After her father was arrested for molesting the poor young girl, she went in and out of various foster homes.Upon entering the home, the two teenage girls proceeded to stab Anna Bracket a total of 27 times. Later, Shirley Wolf would write in her journal one of the most cryptic messages ever left behind by a killer: “Today, Cindy and I ran away and killed an old lady. It was lots of fun.” Even more terrifying, the girls had only met one another eight hours before they decided to commit the murder.

The stars seemingly aligned in just the right way to create a dark disaster. Upon their arrest and during their trial, the girls were notably cold, uncaring, and completely devoid of all emotion. They were the definition of coldhearted, personified evil.

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