Nathaniel Dickson arrested for killing 4 family members.

[Unamused Cat]

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg107/snarkyphotos/dickson.jpg

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=198596800

EASLEY, S.C. — Authorities have arrested an 18-year-old man and charged him murdering his parents and two siblings at their home in Easley.

Authorities say Nathaniel Dickson was taken into custody without incident at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at a home about 20 miles away in Belton.

The coroner's office identified the victims as Dickson's 46-year-old father, Samuel Andrew Dickson Junior; his 46-year-old stepmother, Martiza Hurtado Dickson; his 19-year-old stepsister, Melissa Giliam Salazar; and his 14-year-old brother, Taylor Alex Dickson.

Authorities found the body of Samuel Dickson outside the home after someone called 911 Saturday morning. The other three victims were found inside. Police say Taylor Dickson was shot as he apparently was hiding behind a clothes dryer.

Sheriff's spokeswoman Susann Griffin says investigators do not have a motive for the killings.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352750,00.html

[nurseronda]

What is with all these kids killing their families? Guess mom or dad told him, "no"...:mad:

[TheLittleFriend]

Really, killing will not solve anything.

[Jaded]

Really, killing will not solve anything.

Depends on who ya kill. ;)

[carol13]

he hasn't logged in since October, but at that time, in the spot for heroes, all it said was DAD....have to wonder what the fuck happened there

[Angel]

...have to wonder what the fuck happened there

What is "Dad's wallet dried up", Alex? Now I'll take babykillers for $1000.00 :D

[Mom of 4]

Not much on his myspace. Did find his prom picture.

http://i28.tinypic.com/2hnxi7l.jpg

[Unamused Cat]

Neighbors are saying he had moved out last year after graduating from high school. Nathaniel moved back home a few weeks ago.

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http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg107/snarkyphotos/ndickson.jpg

[Unamused Cat]

His girlfriend, who was on his MySpace, and has removed herself today. They had broken up and he had moved back home.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h_C5kLMRc0Den_glpePau1O11lKQD90AEKU84

[celtic friend]

His girlfriend, who was on his MySpace, and has removed herself today. They had broken up and he had moved back home.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h_C5kLMRc0Den_glpePau1O11lKQD90AEKU84
So maybe he has some issues w/ breaking up with the g/f, but where does it make sense to kill your whole family, who took your ass back? It is not fair,his brother is hiding and he still shot him? That really makes me so sad and angry. Let's have someone play God on his ass.

[celtic friend]

Neighbors are saying he had moved out last year after graduating from high school. Nathaniel moved back home a few weeks ago.

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http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg107/snarkyphotos/ndickson.jpg
He looks like he is about to get a hair cut in this picture.
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[Mom of 4]

Bail denied. Also folks are coming out with the usual "he was the nicest kid" blather.

EASLEY, S.C. (AP) -- A judge denied bail for 18-year-old Nathan Dickson Sunday. He's the teen accused of shooting four family members to death Saturday.

Authorities say Dickson gunned down his father, stepmother, 19-year-old stepsister and 14-year-old brother in their Easley home. He was arrested and charged with murder about 12 hours later.

Family friends say Dickson had just moved back in with his father and stepmother.

We're told the 18-year-old moved in with his girlfriend after graduating high school last year, but the two broke up and Dickinson moved back in with his parents about two weeks ago.

Friends of an 18-year-old man charged with killing four members of his family say he was a polite, quiet teen they can't remember ever getting in trouble.

The mother of one of Dickson's friends says the teen always called her "ma'am" and was a good pal to her 16-year-old boy.

Melissa Funk says she can remember Dickson getting in trouble only one other time -- for having holes in his blue jeans at school.

Dickson is being held at the Anderson County jail without bail

http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=61397

[Lizard]

He looks like he is about to get a hair cut in this picture.


Maybe just a little shape up, and a trim for the eyebrows. A facial couldn't hurt.

[Mom of 4]

Some Pictures released.

The house:
http://i29.tinypic.com/2ia8q5j.jpg

http://i27.tinypic.com/vh6g0l.jpgMaritza Hurtado

http://i26.tinypic.com/2ba6nr.jpgJilian Salazar


http://i28.tinypic.com/ir8cbo.jpgHis mom Patricia Dickson

[Mom of 4]

Quite a bit of information and pictures here.

http://www.independentmail.com/news/2008/apr/27/anderson-hearing-quadruple-murders-answers-few-que/

[Mom of 4]

They are seriously considering the death penalty for him.

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8239674

[Unamused Cat]

I think his lawyer will make a deal for life without parole. But, you never know.

[Mom of 4]

Nice, after killing his family he spent the day 4 wheeling with his buddy having a great time. He even bought some steaks to have a cook out at his buddies grandmothers house! Oh he also asked to wash his feet in a tub. WTF??

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_9095896

COLUMBIA, S.C.—A teen accused of killing his family spent the hours after the slayings riding four-wheelers with a friend and buying steaks for dinner, the friend's grandmother said Tuesday.
Nathan Dickson, who is accused of shooting his father, stepmother, stepsister and brother on Saturday morning, was arrested that evening outside friend Brantley Creel's home.

"I thought my heart was going to stop beating," said Creel's grandmother, Sybil Philyaw, who saw the arrest.

The teens had spent the day together and had gone to get supplies for a cookout when authorities arrived on Philyaw's doorstep, she said. They told her and her husband that four members of Dickson's family had been killed and that Dickson didn't know police were looking for him, she said.

Her husband called their grandson's cell phone, telling him to come home because it was about to rain and the four-wheelers needed to be cleaned and put away. When they returned, Dickson was arrested, she said.

Creel, who did not immediately return a message left by The Associated Press, told a local newspaper that Dickson seemed carefree Saturday. But he told his grandmother his friend had one odd request: to clean his feet in a tub.

"We were just cutting up and having fun all day," Creel, 19, told the Independent-Mail of Anderson.

[Unamused Cat]

What a cold blooded bastard. I do hope he gets the DP.

[Mom of 4]

What a cold blooded bastard. I do hope he gets the DP.


I know and I agree UC. I take a special interest in these cases because I work with troubled teen. I would love to have sessions with this kid and find out what makes him tick! I don't think he should ever be free again but I would love to understand the "whys" of these type of crimes. I followed and am still following the Erin Caffey case too.

[Mom of 4]

Good lord he was captured on video surveillance 9 minutes after the shooting in a convenience store. He is casual as can be!!

http://www.wyff4.com/video/16061595/index.html

More story here: http://www.wyff4.com/news/16061859/detail.html

[Unamused Cat]

Good lord he was captured on video surveillance 9 minutes after the shooting in a convenience store. He is casual as can be!!

http://www.wyff4.com/video/16061595/index.html

More story here: http://www.wyff4.com/news/16061859/detail.html

Wow... He looks like he doesn't have a care in the world in that video.

[Mom of 4]

Wow... He looks like he doesn't have a care in the world in that video.



Isn't that wild? Just stopping off for some munchies after murdering his whole family. :confused:

[Mom of 4]

Still no clear motive but this article does give a glimps into this kids life.

http://greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080502/NEWS01/80502065/1071/YOURUPSTATE03

He had not been a problem child or a troubled youth, friends and family members say. He showed no signs of hostility seething inside, they say.


But in the month prior to last Saturday, when authorities say he gunned down four members of his family, Nathaniel Dickson had been rejected by the U.S. Marines, spurned by a girlfriend he adored and accused of stealing money from his roommate, according to the Marines and a close friend.

He had given up on his year-long attempt to make it on his own as a hamburger flipper and moved back to a home run by a strict disciplinarian father and shared with a brother who succeeded where he had failed in baseball, a sport his father coached, friends and relatives said.

Still, authorities say they have no idea why the 19-year-old would walk through his house with a shotgun, mowing down his brother, stepmother and stepsister, and blasting his father as he ran across the lawn trying to get away.

"That’s something, to be honest about it, we may never know," said Deputy Anderson County Coroner Don McCown. "I think the investigators with the Sheriff’s Office, the Solicitor’s Office, even the families themselves are trying to figure out what triggered this event.

"And I’m not sure if we’ll ever truly know the right answer."

In early April, Dickson had tried to join the Marine Corps but was turned down after he flunked a vocational aptitude test, according to 1st Lt. Staci Reidinger of the 6th Marine Corps District in Parris Island.

That alone would have disqualified him for service, but there were other reasons as well, Reidinger said -- reasons that she said couldn’t be disclosed.

Investigators have collected a huge amount of evidence from the home, although they have released few details about what led them to believe that Dickson, who is called Nathan, was the killer.

His world began to fall apart a few weeks ago when his girlfriend broke up with him and his roommate accused him of stealing money from him and told him to leave, according to Dickson’s close friend Brantley Creel.

Dickson had set up a MySpace page that was mostly devoted to his girlfriend.

"When the world stops spennin, that’ll be the day I stop lovin her!" he wrote next to his avatar.

In his "about me" blurb, he wrote in October, "well im 18 and i have the most wonderfulest girl friend .. and she means the world to me and thats about all ya need to know!"

His photos page has one picture of him and three of her, with captions such as "Mine ALL Mine" under hers.

Creel, who said he was with Dickson during most of their free time for the week prior to the shootings, says he doesn’t know why they broke up, and that Dickson didn’t appear overly upset about it.

"He just acted like, ‘whatever, I'll get another one later,’" Creel said.

As his hero, Dickson lists "DAD."¶

Dickson had thoughts of becoming an electrician, like his father, and had studied that subject with Creel in high school. But rather than going on to get training at a technical college after graduating from Wren High a year ago, he went to work at a McDonald’s in Anderson, according to Creel.

His dad, Andy Dickson, had a rule, according to neighbor Jeff Davis, that his son couldn’t live there after graduating high school unless he went to college. He moved in with a friend, whose accusations that Nathan had stolen money from him, led to his needing to move back to the family’s home on Pine Lake Drive outside of Easley about three weeks ago, Creel said.

One of Dickson’s favorite pastimes was playing shoot-em-up video games, particularly one called Army of Two, Creel said.

Returning home, he agreed to sign up for classes at Tri-County Technical College and pursue a career as an electrician, Creel said.

At Dickson's brother Taylor’s burial Friday afternoon, about 40 of his teammates, wearing their jerseys, gathered around his casket and read a poem that had been written for him, celebrating his prowess on the mound.

Earlier in the week, Wren High baseball coach Randy Thompson described Taylor as a talented pitcher on the Wren High C team with a bright future. Nathan had tried out for Wren High’s baseball team "a couple of times," the last time when he was in 10th grade, Thompson said.

"He never made our program," Thompson said. "But he was always real polite and never gave us any trouble."

Returning home after a year on his own put Dickson back in a structured environment headed by a father whose brother, John Dickson, described as a strict disciplinarian.

"He wouldn’t put up with bad behavior or anything like that," John Dickson said. "He had house rules. You’re supposed to have rules for kids to follow. It wasn’t just for kids. He had them for grown-ups and everyone around him, too."

Dickson and Taylor respected their father, John Dickson said.

"Andy told them to do something, they’d get up and do it," he said. "There wasn’t any having to chase after them and all this stuff. They knew their responsibilities and expectations."

John Dickson said that while the boys sometimes showed signs of rebellion, he never saw any thing outside normal adolescent behavior.

The apparent lack of visible warning signs is not uncommon in murder cases, said Dr. Al C. Edwards, director of the Greenville Mental Health Center. But just because they’re not obvious doesn’t mean they’re not there, he said.

"Usually in retrospect, after you take a hard look at that, that’s not usually the case," he said. "There’s some preceding events or warnings or threats made."

A convergence of events that could lead to depression, such as being turned down by the Marines and losing a girlfriend, could manifest itself as "pure anger," Edwards said.

It’s not unusual for a murderer to engage in routine activities immediately after killing, Edwards said, as a method of denial or coping with the stress.

Dickson went to a convenience store near his home and bought snuff and water, according to a clerk at the store, and Creel said Nathan spent the day with him riding ATV’s immediately after the time that authorities said he killed the four family members.

The lack of any prior behavior, such as cruelty to animals, running away from home or setting fires, would seem to rule out a sociopathic personality disorder, Edwards said.

"You don’t get to be 19 or 20 years old and suddenly turn into a sociopath."

But psychosis can begin suddenly at that age, he said, recalling a case he had years ago in which a psychotic young person killed both parents and two neighbors.

Anderson attorney Kurt Tavernier and Anderson County Assistant Public Defender Andrew Potter said they have been appointed to represent Nathan Dickson.

"He’s holding up well," Tavernier said. "He understands what has occurred and obviously is very, very emotional."

[Ninja0980]

Update - he has plead guilty and has been sentenced to LWOP. http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/sc-man-confesses-to-143317.html

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man confessed Monday to methodically stalking and murdering four family members in their home, reloading his shotgun five times before firing the final shot into his father as the man said "I love you."
Nathan Dickson, 20, pleaded guilty to four counts of murder as part of a deal that will allow him to avoid the death penalty. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Adams said she decided not to pursue the death penalty because the victims' relatives were strongly opposed, and because Dickson had no criminal record and was 18 at the time of the murders.

May he rot in prison a long long time