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Richard McCroskey: Suspect in quadruple murder

Well damn that one wasnt earlier today when i looked at it, i think its still there myspace just disables it somehow bc i think police probably go thru it and see if theres any evidence of stuff? so therefore u cant view cached version either
 
I was able to go back earlier today and read all the comments. Now when you click all comments it tells you invalid friend id.

Maybe I'm just to dumb to work it, I don't know.
 
A criminal justice professor and her daughter, whom police say were slain by a horrorcore rapper, were in counseling over the teenager's obsession with the macabre music, and the mother took her daughter to the concerts to keep an eye on her, a family friend said Wednesday.

Debra Kelley, 53, an associate professor at Longwood University, was hoping that Emma Niederbrock was just "going through a phase," said James F. Hodgson, a former colleague who had known Emma since she was about 1 year old. He said Kelley took her to horrorcore concerts, which feature artists who rhyme violent lyrics over hip-hop beats, in Michigan and Illinois.

"She's either going to go on her own or I go with her and make sure she's OK," Hodgson, a former police officer and now an associate criminal justice professor at Virginia State University, said of Kelley's reasoning. "She said that she needed to be there for her, and that she was going to grow out of this."
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McCroskey's sister, Sarah, said her brother's friends told her that he and Emma had some kind of falling out at the concert.
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Hodgson said Kelley had tried to keep tabs on Emma, even installing software on her computer to monitor the Web sites she visited. She had been home-schooling Emma for the past several years because of bullying and discipline issues in middle school, and some of Emma's postings talked about smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol.

Hodgson, who co-wrote a book on sexual violence with Kelley, acknowledged that people might find it strange that someone like Kelley would indulge such a fascination with music that glorifies rape, mutilation and murder. Kelley had been on paid leave this academic year to conduct research and had resigned from the university effective in May, school spokesman Dennis Sercombe said.
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She was also looking forward to the Michigan festival, but complained in a post that her father, a Presbyterian minister, was coming along on the 16-hour drive.

"talka bout a long ass drive sharin the car with a (expletive) preacher," she wrote. "its gona suck but no doubt is it worth it :D"
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32992286/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
 
Chaindrive!!! Someone broke your groan cherry??? Dang...

I could have sworn that I read somewhere that emma or Mel said they didn't want to go home with sam from the concert. Anyone remember that?
 
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That was me groaning some nitwit.

Yeah I think it was Emma not wanting to be in a van with him. It's in here somewhere.
 
I wish she would have told someone why. I wonder if she already had a feeling that he might be dangerous. Especially since someone came up with a comment from myspace which said something about her knowing he would never hurt her. Just makes me wonder....
 
Dozens gather to remember pastor Niederbrock
Posted: Sep 24, 2009 12:01 PM EDT
Updated: Sep 24, 2009 12:01 PM EDT
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FARMVILLE: Dozens gather to remember pastor Niederbrock
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[APPOMATTOX, VA (WWBT) - Family and friends gathered this morning to say goodbye to a pastor who was killed last week in Farmville.

Dozens gathered at Walker's Presbyterian Church in Hixburg in Appomattox County this morning for the funeral of slain pastor Mark Niederbrock.

He is the first of four murder victims to be laid to rest.

Tomorrow a memorial service will be held for Melanie Wells in Inwood, West Virginia. That service begins at 6 p.m.

Funeral services for Longwood Professor Debra Kelley will be held Saturday, October 3, at 2 p.m. at the Farmville United Methodist Church. Funeral services for her daughter, Emma Niederbrock, will follow at 6 p.m. at the same church.
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http://www.nbc12.com/global/story.asp?s=11191385
 
Remember when this first was discovered and the local LE (sheriff?) got all choked up and said it was the worst crime scene he had ever seen and couldn't finish the interview?

Then the ME's cause of death was revealed to be blunt force trauma to the head (I believe) for all of the victims. Well, I took it to mean the condition of the bodies (not decomp but the way the were murdered). But maybe I was wrong and it was just the whole scene of the crime in general, IDK.

I have to keep in mind this is a very small community, and they're not used to this type of thing. Farmville is more used to college-related pranks and such. Not even to mention, Longwood has a pretty good rep for the smaller college (in certain areas, i.e., early childhood development comes to mind) area.

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ok i'll be the wet blanket....Pixy...WTF is up with your job/friends. i understand being angry with 'the man' or 'god'...but fucking christ on a poptart, really WTF??? i have
NO issue with any music, what i have an issue with is the whole self-important idea that good is bad so there for bad=good. i've watched the videos..i'm 31 and i love to get trashed and rock out. but this shit is sick. sorry, but its gross and not any form of art i can conjure in my imagination. (i've known bigger and badder):sheep:
groan all y'all want..
 
Chaindrive said:
I saw him referred to as a "poseur" on a comments section of an article. I wonder if Emma discovered that he was.
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I am not so sure he was a poseur, I think he was more the real deal. He really believed in murdering. He really believed in what the music pertained to.

It takes a pretty sick and messed up person to do what he had done. We know that 2 of the 4 people murdered were more decomposed than the other two victims. Therefore, we know that they were killed at different times. We also know that he stayed in the house for 'several' days, with the corpses of his victims. :argh:
 
I can't help wonder why the fascination with the music style. If he had been a fan of horror films, would things be any different? What if he had been an active member of Dreamin' Demon? Would we all be under hellfire?
 
I totally agree with you Dakota. Music,films,reading books does not make a murderer go and murder!!! Regardless of the topic of any of these things. As human beings we are exposed to tons of "disgusting,disturbing,demented" things all the time and we choose what we do with those thoughts and ideas that come from such things.

This bastard was sick and evil he could have been into Britney Spears music for all I care! It wouldn't make an ounce of difference he would have done this regardless of the music he was part of or listened to. Because he is plain and simple a worthless piece of shite.

I have to say what disturbs me most is the comments I have seen on other sites where obviously ignorant kids are glorifying what he has done as "Keeping it real" and saying things like " He is hardcore he did what he said he wanted to" Now that is some scary shite.

My sympathies to the families and friends of the victims. I can't imagine what they are going through. So so sad.
 
Chaindrive said:
Yeah, the "keeping it real" is bullshit.
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Yeah, ditto friends. And I don't think music makes someone do this... I think that temptation and disposition for sam, was already there. I think perhaps the music more was fuel to his sick mind.
 
CHARLOTTESVILLE - The man who drove the suspect in the Farmville murders from the scene of the crime to Richmond International Airport spoke exclusively to CBS 6 Thursday.

Gibson says he was surprised that someone accused of such a brutal crime could have been so calm. "He seemed like a normal kid, we talked music," he said.

Gibson picked McCroskey up at the Huddle House in Farmville and stopped in Chesterfield at an ATM so McCroskey could pay him the $130 fare.

Ironically, Gibson says he and the suspected killer even came face to face with police when Gibson got pulled over for speeding.

During the stop, the 20-year-old got out and smoked a cigarette. Gibson said his passenger chatted the whole time and acted normally. He did say he detected a strong odor, but had no idea what it was.

The driver said McCroskey told him was visiting his girlfriend in Farmville and was leaving upset because the two had had an argument over a text message he saw on her phone from another guy.

When asked if these allegations turn out to be true, Gibson said, "Then he's very cold, because he acted like nothing happened. He should've been nervous."
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http://www.wtvr.com/wtvr-farmville-suspect-cab-driver-090924,0,3298776.story
 
Dneilz said:
I wish she would have told someone why. I wonder if she already had a feeling that he might be dangerous. Especially since someone came up with a comment from myspace which said something about her knowing he would never hurt her. Just makes me wonder....
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They had broken up before the show.... im not sure if she felt like he was dangerous or just the fact of having to spend 9 hours with her EX.... i know the night before we were talking at the hotel and someone said something to her and she screamed "HES NOT MY FUCKING BOYFRIEND!!!!!"
sadly thats the last time i saw her =(
 
I really wish i could have made it to Melanies Funeral today =(
and i think i know who the text message was from, the same person who was crying and called me after midnite friday to tell me they were all dead.
I hope he doesnt get brought up in these news reports bc he is a very good friend of mine and i dont want to see his name dragged thru the mud
Notice in this article Sam states they were meeting for the first time in VA.....


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http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/state_regional/article/suspect_told_cabbie_he_confronted_girlfriend_over_text_message/295462/P20/

A Charlottesville cab driver today recalled driving the suspect in the Farmville killings from there to Richmond International Airport last Friday morning, hours before police found four bodies.

Curtis Gibson of Access Taxi said Richard Samuel Alden McCroskey III told him he had found a text message on his girlfriend’s phone from a man stating that he loved her, and that McCroskey had confronted her about it.

Gibson picked McCroskey up from a Huddle House in the Farmville area after McCroskey, who was not a suspect at the time, called for a cab about 6:20 a.m.

McCroskey smelled horrible, Gibson said, but otherwise seemed like a mature adult who spoke calmly and never raised Gibson’s suspicion. A wrecker driver who gave McCroskey a ride earlier that morning has said he smelled like a dead animal.
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Gibson said he and McCroskey talked for most of the trip to the airport, and McCroskey spoke passionately about the underground music scene he was involved in and also about his girlfriend. The 20-year-old Californian told Gibson he met the girl online about a year ago through a mutual interest in underground music. He said he saw her for the first time in person when she arrived with her parents to pick him up at Richmond International earlier this month. He was struck by her pretty smile.

McCroskey told Gibson his girlfriend’s parents had taken them to a music show in Michigan on Sept. 12 and that they had a good time. But McCroskey said he later saw a text message on her phone from a man she had talked to at the music show. The message said he loved her and wanted to be with her.

McCroskey said his girlfriend got angry when he confronted her about the message, accusing him of invading her privacy. He told Gibson he didn’t want to argue so he waited for her to go to sleep and left the house.

He was planning to fly from Richmond International to California. Police captured him Saturday at the airport and charged him with with the murder of Mark Niederbrock and have said that additional homicide charges are expected.
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