Arlington, Washington - On Monday Keira Earhart,38, pulled into his driveway to witness someone running from his house. He went inside to find his wife’s jewelry missing and called 911. Police arrived but after a search, were unable to find the burglar. A second 911 call was made a few hours later, Earhart telling police that the burglar was back in the area and that he had ran into a field near his house. Police arrived a second time, finding Earhart in the field, but once again they were not able to find the burglar. On Wednesday morning a neighbor called police saying he had found the body of a man in a creek near Monday’s burglary. The body was of a 25-year-old who had been shot to death. After a little investigating, police learn neighbors heard shots on Monday, before the second 911 call was placed. One reported Earhart told them he had taken “warning shots” at the burglar. Earhart was booked into jail facing second-degree murder charges. The dead man did have the stolen property in his possession.  Not sure if the Castle Doctrine applies in Washington, but even if it did I am pretty sure it doesn’t cover shooting a fleeing burglar in a field near your house three hours after the crime was committed.

Ok, just watched the video . If I were a lawyer, I’d have this guy doing probation on reckless homicide charges or some shit. How in the hell is a jury going to convict a guy known in the community for volunteer work and working with foster children for an act he may not have done on purpose? Sure, it was a dumbass thing to do as “warning shots” do not usually find themselves in the back of a running man. But still.

BOCA RATON, Florida – Pamela Flowers was reported missing by her roommate who stated she has not seen or heard from Flowers since she left for a Halloween party on Oct 30th. Police began an investigation that led them to Flower’s ex-boyfriend’s apartment. No one would come to the door so police gained entry on Tuesday via a search warrant. Inside they found 49-year-old Christopher Sharpe hiding, as well as Flower’s corpse. Police say it looks as if she had been dead for some time. Sharpe was arrested and has been charged with first-degree murder. Not to be too morbid, but I think that if I had just murdered someone in my apartment, I’d have an easier time trying to dispose of it in pieces than to living in the place while it rotted in another room.

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OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma police say the suspect in the deaths of four people has turned himself in. 28-year-old David Allen Tyner surrendered to the Mayes County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday and now faces six murder charges. He is a suspect in the deaths of Jennifer Lynn Ermey, Casey M. Barrientos and Millie Barrera and 22-year-old Brooke Phillips – one of the prostitutes featured on the HBO reality series “Cathouse.” On November 9, their bodies were found in a burning home where Phillips and Barrera had been shot to death – Phillips was shot six times. Both women were pregnant (hence the six murder charges.) A motive is not known at this point, but Tyner supposedly knew one of the victims. There may be more arrests to come as police do not feel Tyner acted alone. Radar Magazine has a lot of articles about this case and it looks like Phillips hung out with a pretty rough crowd. I’m not familiar with Phillips or the show “Cathouse” and I’m lazy. Anyone care to enlighten?

Dunnellon, FL – She took him in four years ago so he wouldn’t have to face the hell that is the foster care system. She loved him, cared for him, put a roof over his head, and fed him. Now, 66-year-old Doris Babcock is dead – the young boy she took under her wing, 19-year-old Zachary Snyder, stands accused of murdering her. Damn. I think a nice ‘Thank You’ card would have been sufficient. Doris’s husband, a long-distance truck driver, called police on Saturday and requested a well-being check on his wife when he was unable to get in contact with her. When authorities arrived at the home, they came in contact with Zachary – who, the husband told them, was not supposed to be there. The couple had asked him to leave the home a few weeks earlier after they discovered he had been stealing from them. Zachary, who appeared to have cuts on his hands and Doris’s debit and credit cards in his pockets, told officers that Doris wasn’t home. At that point, Zachary was arrested and charged with theft and probation violation. They later discovered the gruesome truth about Doris’s whereabouts.

Zachary Snyder

A search of the Babcock home revealed blood, and lots of it. It was on the kitchen walls, in the sink, and in the bedroom. Blood evidence was found in Doris’s vehicle. There were patches of carpet missing in the home and in the vehicle which were later found in plastic garbage bags with blood-soaked rags and a bent knife. In the backyard, a fire was smoldering in a pit. Zachary told investigators that he was burning some trash – turns out, he was burning Doris Babcock – her remains identified by a pin that had been surgically inserted in her elbow years earlier.

A search of Zachary’s mobile home turned up some interesting shit, as well. He had a butt-load of ‘to-do’ lists and on the top of each list the first entry was “Kill Mrs. Dee.” He also wanted to remember to take her Jeep, get gas, and look for the PIN numbers to her numerous cards.

“That lady’s done more for me than anybody else has,” Zachary stated in an interview. “If I were to die, she would be the only one I could see honestly caring.” You are probably right, Zach. He, of course, denies killing the woman he calls ‘grandma.’ The one who has done so much for him. Regardless, he’s charged with premeditated murder. Personally, I hope that fucker is ass-raped, without the benefit of lube or spit, twice a day, every single day, for the rest of his natural life, for what he’s done. Asshole.

An interview with the ungrateful shit can be seen at the source link.

Source | Asshole’s Myspace

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NICHOLS HILLS, Oklahoma – Details are scarce at the moment, but police have arrested Dr. Stephen Wolf, 51, on suspicion of killing his 9-year-old son, Tommy Wolf. Numerous 911 calls were made by his wife, Mary Wolf. One from a neighbor’s home and then two more from inside the Wolf home. When police arrived at the scene,  they found Mary with defensive wounds to her face and hands and Tommy dead at the scene. No word on cause of death, although Wolf had to be disarmed by arriving officers – reports are that it was a knife. No word on what started the altercation, but police believe that it started in the boy’s bedroom. Dr. Wolf has practiced medicine for 17 years and Tommy was a 3rd-grade student at Christ the King Catholic School.

ST. CHARLES, Illinois – We have seen our fair share of adults getting ridiculously involved in their kid’s business here at D’D, but here is another example of it going into psychotic territory. 33-year-old  Timera Branch was pissed off at 17-year-old John Keyes because of an altercation he got into with her son at a dance Saturday night. Her son was mad about his girlfriend dancing with Keyes. This led to Branch’s son getting punched in the face. The next day Keyes was in the driveway of some apartments when Timera Branch drove her car over a curb, rammed Keyes and killed him by crushing him against a building. She was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and is being held on $1 million bond. Stories like this make me wonder if at any point do the parents ever think to themselves “this is not a good idea.“

Belen, New Mexico – The story of any son getting so angry at their father that he would shoot them in the back of the head is tragic enough but this story is compounded by the fact that Benjamin Hilburn was only 10 when he pulled the trigger. Benjamin would state in the 911 call that he was angry at his father, 42-year-old Bryon Hilburn. He would expand on that later, telling investigators he felt his father was too harsh with him and punished him too much. In August police say Benjamin shot his dad in the back of the head with a shotgun while his 6-year-old sister was in the room. Benjamin, now 11 years old, is in the custody of his mother and has been charged with first-degree murder. It is quite possible he is the youngest person to be charged with murder in New Mexico, a state that does not charge anyone under 14 as adults. Continue reading to hear the full 911 call as Benjamin desperately tries to get someone to the house to save his dad.

The reason why he is with his mother, and not in jail or a juvenile facility is because in New Mexico, you cannot detain anyone under the age of 12. Valencia County DA Lemuel Martinez has concerns that the boy may act out again on someone else, but CYFD spokesperson Romaine Serna says the boy is being closely monitored. “There are several people in the home on a weekly basis. A CYFD clinical social worker is providing services to the family as well as contract providers. So there are several visits during a week,” he said.

The boy’s attorney, Jeff Buckels, says it is preposterous that the boy would be capable of committing deliberate murder. “Murder in this state and everywhere else requires premeditation and requires some appreciation for what is going on,” said Buckels. “I think it is basically obvious to almost anyone that is asking too much of a 10-year-old.”

Back in September, his mother, Monica Albear, defended her son saying that he was being abused. “They’re basically trying to say he’s crazy and he’s not, he’s a very intelligent, he is very loving, he’s very caring. He worries about his mom a lot. I would like for people to quit voicing, putting mean things on the Internet, because it’s just not fair,” Albear said. “They don’t know who he is, they don’t know what he’s been through, they don’t know what my family has been through. And I think it’s wrong and I think my son deserves justice.”

Why would she leave Benjamin and his siblings in the custody of Bryon if she knew that there was abuse in the home. Some reports state that she has been absent from the children most of their life – but her claims of abuse are not unfounded. Children, Youth and Families Department reported its investigators checked out the the home at least seven times in the last several years but said they never found evidence of abuse. Of course the calls could be vindictive in nature, but still – this fact along with Benjamin’s statements give a bit of validity to the claim.

While we do not have the full details of the events leading up to the shooting, you heard the 911 call. What do you think? Based on his demeanor and comments in the 911 call, did Benjamin commit first-degree murder? Was it a form of self-defense? Here is a news video report after the shooting incident. Oh, and Maria Medina? Call me.

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, New York – The remains of 18-year-old Jennifer Hammond were found in a heavily wooded near the Edinburg/Greenfield town line. Missing since 2003, Hammond was last seen at the Creek and Pines Trailer Park in Ballston Spa selling magazines door-to-door. The teen had a history of running away, but had a bus ticket back to her home state of Colorado. The ticket was never picked up, and her belongings were left in a hotel room. So now that the “where is Hammond” question has been answered, investigators will move on to figuring out how she died. But there may be more to this. Her death shares similarities with another teen found dead in the area — 19-year-old Christina White.

Investigators have not stated that there is a link between the two girls, but the similarities are pretty damn peculiar. White’s remains were found in 2006 in a wooded area in the Town of Greenfield, New York about four miles from where Hammond’s skull was found. Both White and Hammond were last seen in two different trailer parks less than one mile from each other in the town of Milton, New York. Obviously, this can be a coincidence, but the questions has been raised. Is there a serial killer operating in the area?

Police are not ruling it out, but it looks like they may focus their attention on the suspect in White’s death — John Regan of Connecticut. Regan tried to abduct a female Saratoga Springs High School student from the school parking four months after White’s disappearance. Luckily, the girl was able to escape. Regan, then 50, was convicted of attempted kidnapping. Currently an inmate at Clinton Correctional Facility, Regan was subsequently convicted of kidnapping in a 1993 case, and stalking and restraining another victim in a 2004 case.

Jennifer Hammond and Christina White

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Claremore, OK – With friends like Preston Dohrer, you might want to think about a life insurance policy. Or, hey, how about a whole new class of friends? As is evident in Preston’s Myspace pictures, he likes to party. And set shit on fire. And, as is evident with his dead friend, Michael Duke, Preston also likes to play with guns. Emergency personnel were called to Preston’s residence at about 1:45 Saturday morning. When they arrived, they found 20-year-old Michael laying on the living room floor bleeding out of the gunshot wound to his forehead. Seems the boys had been drinking that night and horsin’ around a bit. Witnesses told police the two were involved in a bit of “horseplay” and were “playing around with each other and playing with knives.” Sounds like a rip-roaring good time to me! Let me grab my Ginsu! A witness to the horseplay told officers that Preston walked into his bedroom, returned to the living room, pointed a pistol at Michael’s head, and pulled the trigger. wOOt! What. Fucking. Fun. Now Michael Duke is dead and Preston Dohrer is charged with second-degree murder and feloniously pointing a weapon at another person. Bond has been set at $250,000. Great video of Preston “pissing fire” after the jump. I must warn you though, after viewing the video, I seem to have lost 3.5 IQ points.

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*Credit for the title goes to Skeptik. Thanks!

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Kelliher, MN - On October 20th, Betsy Hanks called 911 to report that she returned home to discover her common-law-husband and father to her four children was suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. Matthew Albert, 27, was still breathing but unconscious when officers arrived on scene – he died from the injury two days later. Now, how did that bullet find it’s way into Matthew’s head? Betsy had a story, or three, at the ready. 

Betsy Hanks

She explained to police that she and Matthew had stayed awake until the early morning hours of the 20th arguing about whether or not she had been cheating on him. Later that morning, after Matthew fed the children and returned to bed, Betsy sent their older children, ages 5 and 6, off to school before preparing to take another child, age 3, to Mizpah with her, leaving an 18-month-old child behind with Matthew. She told officers that when she returned from Mizpah, she found Matthew laying in bed, breathing but injured. She knew that he kept a pistol in a case next to the bed, but the case was empty and the gun was missing.

On the day Matthew died, Betsy was questioned again. This time, her story was a little different. In this version of events, Betsy didn’t come home and discover that Matthew had already been shot – instead, she told officers that she had seen her 3-year-old son playing with the pistol and when she tried to take the gun from the child it went off, injuring Matthew. That story didn’t wash either, and much to the relief of the toddler being accused of shooting his father in the head, Betsy fessed up. According to the arrest report, Betsy admitted to shooting Matthew in the head before heading to Mizpah “in hopes of giving her children a better father.” What in the fuck is that supposed to mean? Sounds like maybe those kids could use a better mother – what woman in her right fucking mind would try to blame the death of her husband on a 3-year-old child? Dumb bitch should have turned the gun the other way before pulling that trigger. Betsy Hanks, 27, was charged with second-degree intentional murder and is being held on $1.5 million bail. I hope you rot – selfish bitch.

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ST. MARTINS, Missouri – Here we go, another little girl has vanished while walking home. Maybe this will end differently than the Somer Thompson disappearance. At 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten was walking the quarter mile home from a friend’s house in the 600 block of Route D south of St. Martins. She never arrived at her home. The Cole County Sheriff’s Department has issued an Endangered Person Advisory. Olten is a white, 9-year-old female. She is 5′ 2″ and 108 lbs. with brown hair, brown eyes and a fair complexion with physical marks. She was last seen wearing a pink scarf, pink shirt and pink sweater and blue jeans with white sneakers. She was also carrying a cell phone. The sheriff’s department contacted the cell phone provider, AT&T, who “pinged” the cell phone to triangulate its location. AT&T put the cell phone’s location deep in the woods near Elizabeth’s home. The girl’s family members said she is afraid of the woods and the dark.

On Wednesday night, the Missouri State Highway Patrol searched for Elizabeth using a helicopter with a thermal imaging radar. Today, 60 people resumed the search focusing on a section of woods several hundred yards in diameter, which police had narrowed by triangulating the girl’s cell phone location. The battery had died by this morning and an uneven terrain, high brush and soaking weather are hampering the search effort.

“If you go to Iowa and look at a flat piece of farmland that’s 140 acres, you go, well it’s not that big.’ You translate that to Missouri and you use the same thing, you walk a long time to cover that same amount of land,” White said. “It’s muddy out there now. It’s difficult terrain, it’s difficult weather.”, said Cole County Sheriff Greg White.

Click here for a Google map of the area they are searching.

And before anyone starts bashing her parents for her walking that stretch of road, a commentor over on Topix noted that the girl’s parents were not alerted that she was being sent home from her friends house. So before we get into that territory, let’s wait for some more information to come in.

Update 10-23-09 An older juvenile led authorities to Elizabeth Olten’s body, deep in the woods near where an exhaustive search for the child was under way for much of the day. Little information on this other juvenile aside from them being described as a “person of interest.”

UPDATE 11-03-09

By now everyone knows who the 15-year-old suspect is. She is the older sister of the girl Olten was visiting. Already people are pouring over everything she has said or written on any of the myriad of social accounts she has. These are her alleged Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Sing Snap and disabled Youtube account (cached version here) which was on Nancy Grace tonight. Specifically her hobbies of “cutting, killing people.” This will be interesting. She seemed like a normal teen chick to me. I’m curious if this was an accidental death that she tried to cover up. In the Youtube video it shows her getting her brothers to touch an electric fence.

The following are simply rumors gathered from emails being sent and chat logs being posted. But supposedly this was a planned murder, a hole dug earlier. She also had help burying the body. She had cut the Olten’s neck and wrists purely to see if she could get away with it. None of this is confirmed, of course. But hey, it’s out there and I’m curious how close tot he truth it is. All stuff we will find out in the future.

Update 11-18-09

Here is the mugshot of 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante the teen girl charged with strangling and slitting the throat of Elizabeth Olten. She’s a sick puppy and has shown some disturbing behavior for years, including cutting and an attempted suicide at 13.

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Cartwright, Oklahoma – Not a lot of details on this but enough to raise some questions. 11-year-old Dakota Cheyenne Hughes was spending the weekend at her Aunt’s house who lives next door. Reports state that she was up late watching movies with 34-year-old Jason Lee Belew — an acquaintance of one of Dakota’s relatives and a man she had known for about a month. At around 4 a.m. the Aunt woke up and found Dakota dead in a back bedroom and Jason was nowhere to be found. Authorities arrested Belew on a criminal mischief warrant on Sunday then officially charged with 1st degree murder.

The medical examiner reported that there were signs of trauma, but the cause of death has not been released. But that’s the last of my questions at this point. I, like others, would like to know what the fuck this girl was doing watching movies with a 34-year-old man and why other family members thought this was ok? I’m not saying that all 34-year-old men are waiting to murder an 11-year-old whenever the opportunity presents itself, but that is just odd. If I had an 11-year-old daughter, I am pretty sure I would not allow her to watch movies late at night alone with another 11-year-old boy – much less a grown man.

“She had a friend that came over and watched movies with her,” her father Bill Hughes said. Hughes said he didn’t know Belew personally. I try not to be biased, as little kids die all the time, regardless of the economic class they are brought up in. But I will admit that as soon as I saw the images of the home, my question of “what kind of family would allow a little girl to stay up and watch movies with a man in his thirties” was answered with “Oh, yeah. OK.” Not trying to blame anyone here aside from the person responsible for actually murdering Dakota, but unless Jason was a really, really close friend of the family anyone else feel like some very poor judgment contributed to this tragedy as well?

Guess we will find out as more details are made available.

Update – more information coming out. We got some anonymous information that I will not put up at the moment, but it didn’t paint anyone around Dakota in a good light. Like I stated in the comments, it reminded me of Rowan Ford. Not in the murder, even though both are heinous, but also in their environments. It is being reported that Dakota went with her aunt to pick up Jason, and when they got back Jason and Dakota’s aunt began drinking beer and malt liqour.

The aunt got dizzy and went to bed, leaving Dakota alone with Belew. When she woke up from passing out, she found the naked body of Dakota on the floor of another bedroom and Belew was gone. We have read reports of Dakota being sexually assaulted, strangled and beaten with a bat, but none of that is official – however, it was reported that when Belew was picked up he had blood on his clothing. I’ll keep updating as more information comes out, and enjoy looking at the cocksucker’s mugshot.

Learning that the aunt left Dakota alone with a drunk man that she had only known for a month is really, really starting to grate on my nerves. To imagine what her last moments were like while her aunt snored away in a drunken stupor mere feet away from where she was being murdered. Stories like this makes me wish I was a Christian so I could also drink the Kool-Aid and be comforted by the fact that Dakota was in a better place and that a God had a reason for letting a drunken piece of shit rape and murder a defenseless 11-year-old.

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Huron Township – This is one of the most horrifyingly callous stories I have written about in a while. I have read through about 15 different articles and got sicker the entire time. Sharon Hinojosa, 29, lived in a mobile home with her boyfriend Justin Whisler. Early Friday morning, the mobile home caught fire. Hinojosa was able to escape the blaze with the 1-year-old she shared with Whisler. Sadly,her two other children she had with another man, 4-year-old Anthony, and 3-year-old Alayna, perished in the flames — despite attempts by neighbors to rescue them. Now police have charged Hinojosa with setting the fire and purposely leaving her two children to burn alive. It is a heinous accusation and now that some details have come to light, coupled with the fact that she is now in the hospital after drinking rubbing alcohol, seem to have a lot of merit

Sharon Hinojosa and boyfriend, Justin Whisler, with Anthony Hinojosa, 4, left, Aiden Whisler, 1, and Alayna Hinojosa, 3.

Neighbor Joe Dickes said he saw the front porch ablaze about 3:15 a.m. Friday and ran to talk to Hinojosa, who stood outside by a car where her 1-year-old was inside. Dickes said Hinojosa did not call for help until the fire was well under way. “It seemed to me that fire was pretty well going before she started screaming,” he said. He added that she didn’t mention her two other kids were still in the trailer until he asked where they were. Him and a neighbor began trying to get to the kids by busting out windows, as Hinojosa never told them specifically where the two kids were inside the trailer. “I said, ‘Come on kids, it’s Uncle Jo-Jo; jump into my arms.’ Then the flames blew out and singed my hair,” he said. “I heard the babies screaming for a minute, minute and a half, then they just stopped.” Let that last line sink in a second.

During this time, Hinojosa did place a call to 911. You can listen to it here. In it you can here a very frantic Hinojosa completely unable to clearly articulate where she lived in the Huron Estates Mobile Home Park. Police allege she was not unable, simply unwilling. Neighbors also state that while the rescue attempt was underway, she ran up and down the street screaming while telling everyone that the reason why she left her two children in the trailer was because “she could not wake them up.”

Looks like the motive may have been the “keep the penis” scenario we hear of a lot. Neighbors and relatives told the Free Press that Hinojosa and Whisler were in the process of breaking up. The couple had dated about three years and Hinojosa was supposed to move out of the mobile home. Neighbors said Hinojosa and Whisler had lived in the area for about six months and were often heard arguing. In July, police responded to a domestic violence call after Hinojosa claimed she was pushed to the ground by Whisler. Hinojosa refused to press charges.

Hinojosa has been charged with arson, second-degree murder and felony murder, which is murder committed during another crime. The maximum penalty is life in prison. Hinojosa’s arraignment was not immediately set because currently she is suffering non life-threatening injuries after drinking rubbing alcohol while in custody over the weekend. Funeral donations also can be sent to the Alayna and Anthony Hinojosa Fund at any Bank of America branch.

Not much I can add to this. words could not possibly convey the contempt I have for this woman if she is guilty of what she is being accused of doing. If it is true, I can only hope the screams of those two kids burning alive are seared in her brain. I hope she never has one minute of peace until the day she dies. For the people who tried to save those kids, specifically Joe Dickes, I hope that you know you did absolutely everything you could have done to try and save those kids.

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Boston, MA – Officials have not released many details in this story, but the ones that are out there only lead to more questions.  Back on September 24th, just a month after turning 100 years old, Elizabeth Barrow was found dead in her bed at the nursing home she had lived in for the past 4 years.  Sounds about right, huh?  Well, not really.  She was found with a plastic bag over head and even though there were no signs of a struggle, her death was ruled a homicide by manual strangulation.  Her son says that Barrows was healthy and vibrant despite her age.  The family had taken her out to lunch and shopping just the day before her body was found.  Barrow had a female roommate who was in her 90s, but there is no word on any witness statements.  Considering the son is not blaming the facility, singing it’s praises even, and everyone is remaining tight lipped I am wondering if officials are keeping quiet because they in fact do have a suspect in mind.  Whatever the case, I am anxious to hear how this turns out.  It must suck to live that long only to be denied a peaceful death in your sleep.

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MONT VERNON, New Hampshire – Residents of the small, hilly town of Mont Vernon are in a state of shock after four teens entered a home to rob it, and attacked a 41-year-old mother and her 11-year-old daughter. Using a machete and a knife, Kimberly Cates was attacked while she lay in her bed and killed by multiple sharp injuries to the head, torso, left arm, and left leg. Her daughter survived the attack although she suffered severe stabbing injuries and spent hours in surgery. The attack was a completely random one, Cate’s home chosen simply because it was isolated. “They picked the house at random because it was in an isolated area,” prosecutor N. William Delker said today during the teens’ arraignments in Milford District Court. “Before they entered the home, all four defendants were aware that the intent was to kill the occupants.”

Quinn Glover, Christopher Gribble, Steven Spader, William Marks

At around 4 a.m. Sunday, Steven Spader, 17; Christopher Gribble, 19; William Marks, 18; and Quinn Glover, 17 have all been arrested for their part in the crimes. Spader and Gribble were charged with first degree murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy to commit first degree murder. Marks and Glover were charged with burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary, and armed robbery – although prosecutors claim that Glover and Marks were both armed with a deadly weapon, and Glover was fully aware that the occupants of the home would be killed.

Kimberly Cates

Cate’s husband was away on business but flew back to be with his daughter in the hospital. She is expected to survive, but she will obviously have some major issues because of this. What a pity that these idiots could not have broken into a tweaker couple’s house or something. By all reports, Kimberly was an awesome lady. John Quinlan, a Mont Vernon selectman, and friend of the Cates family for five years described 42-year-old mother and nurse Kimberly Cates as an unusually friendly, happy woman devoted to her daughter.

“She was very much the extrovert,” Quinlan said. “The mother and daughter were inseparable. They were almost best friends as well. That’s what I think makes this worse because you can’t imagine anyone having a bad thought about her or a gripe with her.”

Some information on the teens have come to light as friends all report the same thing. Four kids who all fell into a downward spiral over recent years. Spader was a longtime Boy Scout who in recent months grew increasingly distant and depressed. He has a lengthy criminal record including threatening teens with a tire iron after ramming their car, charges of possessing stolen stereo equipment, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and marijuana possession charges. Most of these within recent months.

Steven Spader and Christopher Gribble

Gribble was a home-schooled Mormon who was planning to become a church missionary. Like a lot of kids raised in that environment (not all, people) he ended up rebelling X10 becoming a dark and brooding figure itching to lash out and become very fond of knives. It is reported that Marks is insecure and angst-ridden teen, and took a turn for the worse after meeting Spader. The same goes for Glover, a musician who performed in coffee shops, sang in the chorus, and starred in a school production of Cabaret.

Quinn Glover and William Marks

While New Hampshire does have a death penalty, these boys are not eligible for it. According to the New Hampshire attorney general’s office, the crime does not fit within the state’s definition of a capital murder. The death penalty is only on the table when a law enforcement or judicial officer is killed in the line of duty, in the case of murder-for-hire, if the accused is currently serving a life sentence or when the murder occurs in connection with a kidnapping, drug crime or sexual assault.

Whatever. I am sure that this case will continue to get more heinous as some of these teens turn on each other (my bet is on Marks) and the details on exactly what transpired in that home is revealed. To be able to attack a defenseless woman in her home while she slept in her bed is one thing, but to be able to do the same to an 11-year-old girl? Seriously, fuck ‘em. Fuck their childhoods.

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