ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. \u2014 The two Lake Brantley High School students accused of trying to resurrect the \u201cSandy Hook\u201d school shooter by murdering one of their classmates in January were put into the back of the same patrol car after their arrest.<\/p>\n
The move allowed officers to listen in to a conversation between the girls \u2013 who didn\u2019t realize they were being recorded \u2013 which included jokes about mug shots, discussions about how much prison time they\u2019d receive and frustrations one of their friends snitched, officers said.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors are now using that conversation as ammunition against Isabelle Valdez and Lois Lippert as they push a judge to keep the girls behind bars.<\/p>\n
Both Valdez and Lippert filed to be released pending their trials and have a court date next week, while prosecutors maintain they\u2019re a danger to the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cValdez told Lippert that she was going to use makeup this morning for her mugshot, but she could not find anything,\u201d the readout of the conversation stated. \u201cValdez then said, \u2018It\u2019s over.\u2019 Lippert replied, \u2018Yea, it\u2019s over. It doesn\u2019t matter if you look good or not.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The conversation also allegedly included jokes about the blood ritual the two planned to perform, discussions about the girls\u2019 plans to spread their story around the True Crime community, and hopes by Valdez law enforcement would send her to a psych ward.<\/p>\n
Those hopes echoed other statements by Valdez, including texts she sent to Lippert and an apology note written to her parents the night before her arrest, that showed the teenager was tortured by the thoughts running through her head and knew they were wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis really is about our mental health crisis unfolding in real time right before our eyes,\u201d Cherlette McCullough, a therapist, said upon hearing some of the comments. \u201cWhen our teens start doing things like posting dark thoughts on social media, when they start saying things like, \u2018I\u2019m not right,\u2019 or they\u2019re saying things like, \u2018I need help, or I need to be checked into a mental facility, or I need to be Baker Acted,\u2019 it\u2019s not just something for attention. That could literally be a cry for help.\u201d<\/p>\n
WFTV reached out to both Lippert\u2019s and Valdez\u2019s parents and attorneys. Everyone either declined to comment or did not call or text back.<\/p>\n
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