By TARINA WHITE, SUN MEDIA
The Calgary Sun
CALGARY -- Killing a young mother was "the ultimate rush" and better than sex, the woman's murderer said when she admitted her crime, court heard yesterday.
Elizabeth Laverne Roberts pleaded guilty in Court of Queen's Bench yesterday to the reduced charge of second-degree murder and will automatically be sentenced to life in prison.
In an agreed statement of facts, Roberts admitted she strangled and suffocated the victim, while munching on French fries, because Jennifer Renn was a "rat" for talking to police after overhearing Roberts phoning drug dealers.
The killer told an undercover cop who befriended her the murder "was the ultimate rush... I never felt anything like it before in my life and I'd do it again."
It felt better "than... sex... better than heroin, any kind of drugs," she told the cop.
Renn, 29, prayed and "fought with her life," said Roberts, a self-described career criminal. The murderer jumped on Renn's lifeless body, "making sure the air's out of her... I made sure she was gone, man."
The reduced charge means Roberts faces a minimum of 10 years behind bars before she is eligible for parole.
But Renn's brother, Kyle Mowat, is pleased Roberts admitted her guilt.
"I'm definitely relieved that she's admitted to her wrongdoing, even if it is to a lesser charge," he said.
"I'm just happy that there's some resolve."
Roberts killed Renn in February 2004 inside a northwest motel room.
Renn was invited to the motel by a man and arrived to find three others inside the room, including Roberts.
No one tried to save her.
Her beaten body was dumped inside the trunk of a car, which Roberts and a man drove away from the murder scene.
The car was pulled over by police and the pair fled.
Police impounded the car and later received a tip telling them a body was inside.
A psychological assessment has been ordered.
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