By Seamus McGraw 

LANCASTER COUNTY , Pa.   (Crime Library) - Although authorities have not charged Kara Borden with anything, and her lawyer maintains that she is not a suspect in the investigation into the slaying of her parents, four Web sites allegedly created by the teen have been preserved by court order, according to published reports.

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A Lancaster County judge last week, acting on a request by prosecutors, ordered the four sites on Xanga.com and MySpace.com to be maintained, giving investigators time to probe them for details of her relationship with 18-year-old David Ludwig, according to a report published in the Harrisburg Patriot-News.

Ludwig, who had been involved in an intimate relationship with the 14-year-old Borden has admitted to authorities that he killed the girl's parents, Michael and Cathryn Borden, in their Lititz home after they demanded that Ludwig end his relationship with Kara. The young couple fled after the slayings and Ludwig was apprehended a day and a half later after crashing his Volkswagen Jetta while trying to escape from police.

Kara was returned to Pennsylvania , and has been staying with relatives. Her attorney, Robert Beyer, has said that the girl had no part in the slayings. He has also said that although prosecutors are continuing their investigation, it is unlikely that the teenage girl will face any charges in connection with the slaying.

But authorities apparently believe that Kara's postings on the Web sites may provide additional details about her relationship with Ludwig and need to be preserved in the event of a trial. Most observers believe a trial is unlikely and that Ludwig, who is charged with two counts of murder and a count of reckless endangerment, will seek to strike a deal with prosecutors.

Most of Kara's postings were deleted almost immediately after Ludwig's arrest, though authorities can still retrieve them. Some lingering snippets remained on the Web sites, however, and were detailed days after the slayings by Crime Library contributor and blogger Steve Huff. They provide an intimate glimpse into the couple's troubled romance. On a least one of the postings, a friend of Kara's takes her to task for engaging in a risky relationship with a young man four years her senior.

In one exchange, Kara's unnamed friend warns her that, "things are getting out of hand."

An angry Kara responded; "if it doesn't have anything to do with you, then I don't want to know...what you have to say. No offense, if it has to do with David and me, we are taking care of it — we know what we are going to do."

The exchanges cited by prosecutors in their request to preserve Kara's websites add another layer of drama to the relationship. In one of those exchanges, a friend it's not clear whether it is the same friend threatened to reveal Kara's relationship with Ludwig, according to the Patriot-News. The newspaper, replicating Kara's typographical errors quotes her response: "you do not know how we feel. ... you dont know how we feel about eachother and how much we want to be with eachothers."

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