Steven Paul Colver and Tylar Marie Witt once vowed in a suicide pact to live together in eternity.
Today, in a Placerville courtroom, they are to be sentenced together in the fatal stabbing of Witt's mother, Joanne M. Witt.
In the culminating act of a sordid courtroom drama on the forbidden love of two teens that led to murder, Colver and Witt are going to be sent away – he for life, she for at least 15 years.
It is unknown if the pair, who likened themselves to Romeo and Juliet in lurid journals after Joanne Witt's murder, will address the court. Mark Ralphs, attorney for Tylar Witt, 16, said "That decision is up to her."
But Norbert Witt, Joanne Witt's father and Tylar's grandfather, will speak about the immense tragedy that rocked his family starting that June day in 2009 when then 14-year-old Tylar called her 19-year-old boyfriend to kill her mother in her bedroom.
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