Two Florida teenagers accused of plotting to kill a classmate in a “blood ritual” will remain held in jail without bond, after prosecutors argued that footage of the two laughing in a patrol vehicle following their arrest showed they continue to pose a threat.
Isabelle Valdez, 15, and Lois Lippert, 14 — both students at Lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs — were arrested in late January after police investigated an anonymous tip reporting the alleged murder plot.
Both teens were subsequently charged as adults with attempted premeditated murder, attempted felony murder and other counts.
The tipster reported to the app FortifyFl on Jan. 22 that Valdez told the tipster about plans to kill “somebody we know from school” the following day, according to the police report.
A search of Valdez’s backpack on Jan. 23 turned up a knife, which Valdez allegedly admitted to planning to use to cut the victim’s throat or stab him in his stomach while in a school bathroom, according to the police report.
The victim reportedly reminded Valdez of Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter, and “she believed if she killed the victim, she would have a blood bond with Adam Lanza, which would resurrect him from the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ,” prosecutors stated in court filings. Valdez planned to “leave flowers at the scene and smoke a cigarette after the homicide was completed,” prosecutors stated.
Lippert allegedly supplied gloves, chocolate, flowers and cigarettes and helped sharpen the knife in a school bathroom in support of the murder plot, according to prosecutors. She also drew “graphic and disturbing” sketches of the victim for Valdez, according to prosecutors.
In the patrol vehicle footage from Jan. 23 released by the Office of State Attorney for the 18th Circuit, which is prosecuting the case, both teens can be heard complaining about the “snitch” who submitted the anonymous tip, discussing sharpening the knife and mentioning school shooters. At one point they also talked about how much “time” they will receive and their booking pH๏τos.
“Dude, I was going to do my makeup this morning, for the mug sH๏τ, but I couldn’t find anything,” Valdez says.
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