SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio -- The mother of a murder victim has harsh words for the woman accused of killing her daughter.

Police near Asheville, N.C. released mug shots Monday night of 18-year-old Tabitha Messina and 19-year-old Carlos Christopher. They were charged with two counts of aggravated murder.

They are accused of murdering her father, 50-year-old Rick Messina, and his longtime girlfriend, 43-year-old Sandy Cover.

"Sandy practically raised that kid. She's 18 years old, and Sandy and Rick have been together for say 10 or 12 years. Tabitha lived at home and I thought they got along good," Joann Bartell, Sandy's mother, said.

Bartell admitted there were problems, but she never expected it to come to this.

"She had no right to take my daughter away from me. And I don't feel sorry for her. I do pity her, because she's ruined her life," Bartell said. "If it's proven that she did it, I'd like to see the death penalty."

The two were arrested in a motel in Avery, N.C., a police report said.

Messina and Cover died at their home on Donwell Drive near Bayard Road in South Euclid.

The coroner said Messina died from multiple blows to the head and that Cover died from multiple blows to the head and back.

Both deaths have been ruled homicides.

Officers went to the home at 4:23 p.m. Sunday for a welfare check and found a screen to an enclosed patio was torn and a window in a door was broken. The bodies were found in an upstairs bedroom

The South Euclid Police Department has responded to the residence 68 times since Jan. 1, 2005 for various reasons.