Chakaya Brittney Folborg was sentenced to life in prison after admitting she used a steak knife to kill her sister in the shower, authorities said. ‘The mother and their 12-year-old sister were on the other side of the bathroom door begging her to stop when they heard this,’ an officer said.
A Georgia woman was sentenced to life in prison after she admitted to stabbing her sister to death with a steak knife.
Chakaya Brittney Folborg, 24, pleaded guilty in court Wednesday to the murder of her adopted sister Kourtney Chanel Dyches in their Mableton home on Feb. 20, 2012, authorities said.
The sisters were both 21 years old at the time.
“It was straight up jealousy,” Sherwin Figueroa, assistant district attorney of Cobb County, told the Daily News. “It’s just wrong and it is what it is.”
Figueroa, who prosecuted the case, explained that Folborg was adopted as an infant from a woman with a crack problem in New York. At the time, their mother did not think she could get pregnant. Shortly after, she gave birth to Dyches.
As they aged, Dyches became a popular girl with lots of friends. But Folborg admitted that she felt like a failure.
The girls never talked about boys, entertainment or other light-hearted subjects as teenagers, according to Figueroa.
Officer Kim Isaza said the sisters had a lot of tension in part because they lived in such a small house — so small that their family members could hear Dyches’ final moments about 11 p.m. that day.
“The mother and their 12-year-old sister were on the other side of the bathroom door begging her to stop when they heard this,” Isaza told The News.
Dyches died before cops could get to the house, officers said.
“This victim was a vibrant young lady with the rest of her life ahead of her,” Figueroa said in a statement.
“The defendant, without any provocation, took a knife from the kitchen some two hours before the killing and waited until the victim was in the shower before viciously stabbing her at least six times.”
Folborg, who has been in jail since her arrest, will be eligible for parole after serving 30 years.
