Cassie Bjorge along with her boyfriend Johnny Rider would be convicted of the murders of her Grandparents in Georgia
According to court documents Cassie Bjorge and Johnny Rider were in a relationship that her Grandparents, Wendy and Randall Bjorge, did not approve of. Instead of ending their relationship the two teens would come up with a horrible plan that they thought would work
On the day of the murder Johnny Rider would attack Randall Bjorge while Cassie Bjorge would drag Wendy Bjorge into a bedroom. A tire iron, hammer, baseball bat and butcher knives were used to kill the elderly couple. Cassie and Johnny would then caulk the door to the bedroom in order to keep the smell of the murder scene contained.
Cassie Bjorge and Johnny Rider would attempt to murder her sister and brother who thankfully were able to escape and call 911
Cassie Bjorge and Johnny Rider would be arrested. Plead guilty to two counts of murder and be sentenced to life in prison
Cassie Bjorge Current Information
NAME: BJORGE, CASSANDRA
GDC ID: 1002246318
YOB: 2000
RACE: WHITE
GENDER: FEMALE
HEIGHT: 5’03”
WEIGHT: 136
EYE COLOR: BROWN
HAIR COLOR: BROWN
MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: ARRENDALE STATE PRISON
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: LIFE
Johnny Rider Current Information
NAME: RIDER, JOHNNY HIRO
GDC ID: 1002246300
YOB: 1998
RACE: WHITE
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 5’10”
WEIGHT: 168
EYE COLOR: BROWN
HAIR COLOR: BLACK
MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: CENTRAL STATE PRISON
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: LIFE
Cassie Bjorge Case
Gruesome details of the heinous murder of a Lawrenceville couple left loved ones in tears Friday.
This as two teenage murder suspects enter guilty pleas. Wendy and Randall Bjorge were savagely slaughtered in their own home by their granddaughter and boyfriend.
Cassandra Bjorge, 17, cried a bit but had nothing to say before she and Johnny Rider were given consecutive life sentences.
“I wonder how much vicious cruelty it takes to leave someone to putrefy,” said Sylvia Berman, sister of Randall Bjorge.
Berman laid out all the agonizing questions that run through her mind when she thinks about how her brother and his wife, Wendy were stabbed and beaten by their own granddaughter Cassandra last April.
“Did he die quickly? Did Cassie see his face? Did he see Cassie’s face? Someone he loved so much, someone he was so proud of.
Chris Bjorge, the couple’s son, too emotional to read his own victim impact statement so he asked his wife.
“It is sad to me that first time they visit my house and meet my children is in a paper bag from a funeral home,”
Prosecutors outlined the horrifying ordeal that the teens admitted to committing. Both waited for the lights to go dark in the couple’s Lawrenceville home, then entered with Cassandra’s key. She ambushed and beat her grandmother while Rider kicked the grandfather and beat him with a tire iron in front of Mrs. Bjorge. All this before he slit their throats.
Gwinnett County Judge Debra Turner simply appalled by the lengths the two went to cover up their crime for a week.
“I just continue to be stunned that you sealed areas so that you could make sure the smell of decaying human flesh wouldn’t be noticed. That you had parties and ordered Chinese food with two people that you had brutally murdered lying upstairs,” the judge said.
The plea deal spared both the death penalty in this capital murder case.
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