BELLEVILLE, Ind. -- A man wanted in a Pennsylvania double homicide and apparent abduction of a 14-year-old girl was captured Monday after a car he was driving crashed in Indiana following a police pursuit, State Police said. The girl was found unharmed.\nState Police 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten said David Ludwig, 18, was apprehended at about 12:30 p.m. after a car he was driving crashed about 20 miles west of Indianapolis.\nBursten said Ludwig was found with the missing girl, 14-year-old Kara Beth Borden, a daughter of the slain couple who was apparently Ludwig's girlfriend.\n"He's in custody and we have the girl," Bursten said.\nPolice in Pennsylvania said Ludwig killed Kara's parents, Michael F. and Cathryn Lee Borden, early Sunday after they and their daughter argued about her curfew. The shootings happened at the family's home near Lititz, Pa., in Warwick Township, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.\nFootage from news helicopters in Indiana showed a girl sitting in a police cruiser and a young man wearing a gray T-shirt, handcuffed sitting next to a red Volkswagen Jetta that had run head-on into a tree. The site is some 600 miles from the scene of the killings.\nAuthorities in Pennsylvania had said Ludwig had his parents' red Jetta. Bobby Poteet, a Belleville resident, said he was out walking when he saw the car being pursued by two state police cruisers.\n"They were flying," he said.\nLudwig and Borden were brought to the State Police post in Putnamville, Ind., where they were being questioned, 1st Sgt. Steve Hibler said.\nPennsylvania authorities talked with Indiana State Police but had little new information, said Richard F. Garipoli Jr., police chief of Warwick Township.\n"They are both OK, and we are working with the Indiana State Police to get them back here," Garipoli said.\nPolice Chief William Seace said earlier that authorities were operating on the assumption the girl had been kidnapped and an Amber Alert had been issued.\nPolice in both Pennsylvania and Indiana had investigated reported sightings of the pair.\nKara's 13-year-old sister, Katelyn, told investigators her father and mother were shot after they argued with Ludwig for about an hour, according to a police affidavit filed in court.\n"As they got near the front door, Katelyn Borden saw David Ludwig with a handgun pointed toward her father, and Katelyn saw David Ludwig pull the trigger, heard a gunshot and then she ran into the bathroom," the affidavit said.\nShe heard a second shot while hiding in the bathroom, it said. Ludwig then ran through the house calling for Kara, she told investigators.
The couple's 9-year-old son ran to the home of neighbors, who called 911, police said earlier.\nPolice issued an arrest warrant late Sunday for Ludwig on two counts of criminal homicide, one count of reckless endangerment and one count of kidnapping.\nLancaster County Coroner G. Gary Kirchner said Monday the victims, who were both 50, apparently died of single gunshot wounds to the head. Autopsies were being conducted.\n"It's completely insane, completely insane," Kirchner said. "This isn't a Romeo-and-Juliet deal; this is far worse than that."\nThe Borden family had lived in their home for several years, said neighbor Tod Sherman, 47. Mike Borden worked for a printing company, and the children were home-schooled, he said.\nSherman said the family knew the 18-year-old suspect through a home-schooling network.\nStephanie Mannon, 16, said Ludwig and Kara Borden had been seeing each other secretly.\n"Their parents didn't approve of them being together" because of the age difference, she said. "It wasn't because he was a shady character because he wasn't."\n-- Associated Press writers Martha Raffaele in Lititz, Pa., and Mark Scolforo in Harrisburg, Pa., contributed to this report.
