 Cooey, then age 19, and Dickens, age 17, took the women to a field behind the Rolling Acres Mall where they raped, stabbed, and tortured them for three and one-half hours, eventually choking and bludgeoning them to death and abandoning the bodies.They also carved X's into the victims' abdomens.Cooey and Dickens each blamed the other for the actual murders, Horonetz having left the car before the violence began.