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Grace Mann briefly stopped at home to fix her hair, but her roommates couldn’t find her. The two women later testified that they called her name and checked the back yard, before arriving at a bedroom with a closed door. When they knocked, another roommate, Steven Vander Briel, slid out. He was drenched in sweat, according to testimony, and his eyes darted side to side.

He asked what, in retrospect, would be a chilling question: “What would you do if Grace wasn’t here anymore?”

Moments later, the women would testify, they found the University of Mary Washington student from McLean, Va., lying near a bed, beneath a purple comforter. Mann’s hands were bound with a sweater and belt, and a plastic shopping bag was cinched over her head. They would find more bags shoved in her mouth as her body lay on the floor.

Neither woman said she was aware of any problems between Vander Briel or Mann or knew the origin of the altercation on April 17. When asked whether she remembered any issues, Aleksonis seemed at a loss.

“He had left a voice mail about needing a blanket back, and he had been kind of persistent,” Aleksonis testified about a message on Mann’s phone.

Gardener said Vander Briel’s only connection to Mann was that he rented a room in the same house. Fredericksburg police have said Mann and Vander Briel had no personal relationship. He had returned to Mary Washington for his third stint there at the beginning of the spring semester, and was close to finishing his degree in political science.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...fd6ab6-1382-11e5-89f3-61410da94eb1_story.html
 
Poly Sci major...Antisocial Personality Disorder much? You're supposed to wait until you're in office before you start killing people.
 
A man in Virginia has been found guilty of murdering his 20-year-old roommate after a jury rejected his claims' that he was insane.

Steven Vander Briel, 31, was found guilty for killing Grace Rebecca Mann, a University of Mary Washington student majoring in history and American studies, on April 17, 2015.

Briel shared a house with Mann, the daughter of a juvenile and domestic relations court judge in Fairfax County, and two other women as a part-time student at the school located in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

The two other roommates, Holly Aleksonis and Katheryn Erwin, came home and discovered Mann with a plastic bag stuffed down her throat and a plastic shopping bag cinched over hear head as her body lay on the floor with a purple comforter over it, according to Fredericksburg.com.
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He pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, strangulation and abduction.

Eileen Ryan, a psychiatrist who testified for his defense, said that Briel was 'delusional' at the time her killed Mann and thought she was trying to kill him.

Briel believed that an 'organization had told Mann to kill him' and that 'she had been poisoning him with gas and putting something on his peanut butter,' Ryan reportedly said according to CBS News.

However, two weeks after the murder, the Briel made a 15-minute phone call from the jail to his parents in which he sounded coherent.


The prosecution countered his claims of insanity and argued that he knew right from wrong when he brutally murdered Mann.

The jury found him guilty and recommended that he be sentenced to life in prison, plus 11 years for killing Mann.

According to CBS News, Thomas Mann, the victim's father, said in a statement that it's 'been agonizing to know his daughter's last moments were filled with fear and horror.'

The girl's mother, Melissa, said that she is 'grateful the last words she said to her daughter were "I love you.''
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I'll never understand why a dude would want a female roommate, and vice versa. People are fucking stupid.

student majoring in history and American studie

At least it's not like she had a bright and profitable career ahead of her. Why even go to college?
 
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