Girls left suicide notes telling families they loved them
Letters detailed their funeral wishes
Two 14-year-old girls killed themselves in a suicide pact after complaining that they were being bullied at school.
Best friends Haylee Fentress and Paige Moravetz left notes telling their families they loved them before hanging themselves during a sleepover.
Haylee’s mother, Tracy Morrison, discovered their bodies early on Saturday morning when she went to check on the girls at her home in Island Lake Township in south-west Minnesota.
Police investigating the deaths believe the teenagers had been planning the hangings for some time.
They even left details about how they wanted their funerals to be carried out in their farewell notes.
‘She requested everything pink and princess and butterflies,’ said Haylee’s aunt, Robin Settle.
The suicides came three days after Paige’s mother and stepfather left for a 10-day break in Hawaii.
Mrs Settle said her niece had only recently moved to the rural area from Indiana with her mother and eight-year-old brother and had complained that she felt ostracised and bullied.
‘I’m shocked and I’m mad and I’m sad. I don’t understand the mentality of kids torturing other kids, kids having to go through this. They don’t think they have anywhere to go to,’ she told ABC News.
‘She was made fun of for being overweight, her red hair. She posted on my Facebook wall that she really wanted to come back, that the people were mean and cruel and she didn’t fit in.’
The teen was so conscious about her size she rarely ate in public at school, said her aunt.
Paige played hockey and was teaching her friend to skate. The girls were so close that Haylee recently hyphenated her last name to include Paige’s last name on Facebook.
‘They were best friends,’ said Paige’s uncle, Brett Behnke, who described his niece as having ‘a smile that’s intoxicating – just a charmer'.
She just didn't want anybody to be sad for her. She wanted everybody to pray for her and that's the gist of it,' Behnke told ABC about Paige's suicide note.
Haylee was reportedly expelled from Marshall Middle School for defending Paige in a fight.
‘That was really weighing on her, missing her friends and being excluded from school. She felt like she was defending herself and her friend,’ added Ms Settle.
‘She was actually one of the most giving loving girls you would ever meet. She just loved everyone unconditionally. She couldn't stand people to be made fun of, tortured, teased. She stood up for the underdogs and she was one herself.
‘Her and Paige got really close. I think they've had this plan for some time,’ added the aunt. ‘They did hang themselves. My sister found them. She's a medical assistant. She attempted to resuscitate them.’
Paige’s funeral was held yesterday. There will be one service for Haylee in Minnesota today and a second one in Indiana on Saturday.
Letters detailed their funeral wishes
Two 14-year-old girls killed themselves in a suicide pact after complaining that they were being bullied at school.
Best friends Haylee Fentress and Paige Moravetz left notes telling their families they loved them before hanging themselves during a sleepover.
Haylee’s mother, Tracy Morrison, discovered their bodies early on Saturday morning when she went to check on the girls at her home in Island Lake Township in south-west Minnesota.
Police investigating the deaths believe the teenagers had been planning the hangings for some time.
They even left details about how they wanted their funerals to be carried out in their farewell notes.
‘She requested everything pink and princess and butterflies,’ said Haylee’s aunt, Robin Settle.
The suicides came three days after Paige’s mother and stepfather left for a 10-day break in Hawaii.
Mrs Settle said her niece had only recently moved to the rural area from Indiana with her mother and eight-year-old brother and had complained that she felt ostracised and bullied.
‘I’m shocked and I’m mad and I’m sad. I don’t understand the mentality of kids torturing other kids, kids having to go through this. They don’t think they have anywhere to go to,’ she told ABC News.
‘She was made fun of for being overweight, her red hair. She posted on my Facebook wall that she really wanted to come back, that the people were mean and cruel and she didn’t fit in.’
The teen was so conscious about her size she rarely ate in public at school, said her aunt.
Paige played hockey and was teaching her friend to skate. The girls were so close that Haylee recently hyphenated her last name to include Paige’s last name on Facebook.
‘They were best friends,’ said Paige’s uncle, Brett Behnke, who described his niece as having ‘a smile that’s intoxicating – just a charmer'.
She just didn't want anybody to be sad for her. She wanted everybody to pray for her and that's the gist of it,' Behnke told ABC about Paige's suicide note.
Haylee was reportedly expelled from Marshall Middle School for defending Paige in a fight.
‘That was really weighing on her, missing her friends and being excluded from school. She felt like she was defending herself and her friend,’ added Ms Settle.
‘She was actually one of the most giving loving girls you would ever meet. She just loved everyone unconditionally. She couldn't stand people to be made fun of, tortured, teased. She stood up for the underdogs and she was one herself.
‘Her and Paige got really close. I think they've had this plan for some time,’ added the aunt. ‘They did hang themselves. My sister found them. She's a medical assistant. She attempted to resuscitate them.’
Paige’s funeral was held yesterday. There will be one service for Haylee in Minnesota today and a second one in Indiana on Saturday.
