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Richard McCroskey: Suspect in quadruple murder

http://www.mercurynews.com/alamedacounty/ci_13420404

Quadruple-murder suspect's sister has received death threats over Virginia slayings

By Kristofer Noceda
The Oakland Tribune
Posted: 09/25/2009 12:52:55 PM PDT
Updated: 09/25/2009 12:54:36 PM PDT

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CASTRO VALLEY — At first, Sarah McCroskey was in denial. She thought there was no way her brother could be the prime suspect in four Virginia killings.
But it hit when investigators called and she became overwhelmed after seeing the reports all over the Internet and television.
"I just fell to my knees. I couldn't see. I couldn't talk," McCroskey said. "I feel I failed as his big sister."
Her brother, Richard Alden Samuel McCroskey III, 20, was arrested Saturday in the slayings of four people in Farmville, a small college town about 50 miles west of Richmond. He has been charged with killing Mark Niederbrock, 50, a Presbyterian church pastor. Others killed in the same home were the cleric's estranged wife, Longwood University professor Debra Kelley, 53; their daughter Emma Niederbrock, 16; and her friend Melanie Wells, 18, of Inwood, W. Va. Since the bodies were found last Friday at Kelley's home, Sarah McCroskey's life has been a whirlwind. Death threats have been left on her cell phone voice mail.
Alameda County Sheriff's Office deputies — on behalf of the Farmville Police Department — served a search warrant on her Orange Avenue home, near Grove Way, about 1 a.m. Monday. "They tore the place up. Everything is on the floor," McCroskey said. "They took house phones, computers and anything relevant to the situation. They even took baby books."
McCroskey, 21, and her brother — whom the family calls Sammy
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— were raised in Hayward before moving to Castro Valley about six years ago.
Her parents split up five months ago.
The household is more like a place filled with roommates instead of family, she said.
"We weren't a 'Leave it to Beaver'-type of family," she said. "We each had our own space and did our own thing."
In high school, McCroskey and her brother were teased and picked on at school, mainly because of their weight and "ginger" hair. "It broke our confidence and we grew up with a lot of insecurities," she said. "I always fought back, but Sammy was way too passive. He didn't say anything."
The siblings each dropped out of high school.
He dropped out of Tennyson High in Hayward, then went to Hayward High and dropped out again.
"We both fell into the wrong crowd. But high school was just uncomfortable for Sammy," McCroskey said. "He was just unhappy. He couldn't do it."
What he could do, however, was make music. The aspiring rapper would spend endless hours recording in his room. "It was our way of escaping reality and finding a way to cope and relax," said McCroskey, who also is a musician now working for a music production company.
In addition, their father plays guitar in a band.
Her brother found a niche in the underground horrorcore scene — rap's equivalent to film's horror genre — and took on the name Syko Sam.
He rapped about killing, maiming and mutilating people. "Much of horrorcore rap is taking you through the mind of a killer and their point of view," McCroskey said. "Syko Sam was just a stage name. It wasn't his alter ego."
McCroskey also denied reports that her brother was obsessed with notorious serial killer Son of Sam, David Richard Berkowitz, who killed six people and injured seven others in New York City during 1976 and 1977.
Since his arrest, Richard Samuel Alden McCroskey III has not been cooperating with police, according to Associated Press reports. McCroskey said her brother has been placed on suicide watch.
The victims were found bludgeoned to death. Prince Edward County Commonwealth's Attorney Jim Ennis would not say what kind of weapon was used, if the victims suffered other injuries, or discuss a possible motive, Associated Press reports said.
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The media is apparently going to print anything they can find on this. Maybe I missed this in the thread but...

He went to eat before he went to the airport:
"It was all on the news and when I saw it, my heart just fell to my feet." That was Patty Scott's reaction when she heard about the quadruple murder case in Farmville.

Scott, the General Manager of the Huddle House on Main Street says it blew her away because just the day before, she, her son and a few other workers at the restaurant chatted with Richard Sam McCroskey.

She and her son Cody arrived at work just before six a.m. last Friday and when they walked in, McCroskey was sitting on a barstool eating barbeque, fries and drinking a monster sized energy drink.

Patty tells CBS 6 "I leaned over and said to him, son, that drink isn't good for you. He commented I don't plan on going to sleep." When she got next to him, the manager says she detected a horrible odor. One, she never smelled before.
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He says McCroskey called for a taxi and the driver came inside asking who needed a ride. "That guy, Sam, I guess that's his name. He stood up and went to get into the taxi. He didn't seem to be in a rush or anything. He just got up and casually walked to the door."

Another co worker, Ashley Fabrey also talked to the suspected killer. "He talked about music and told us he had a Myspace page. He wrote down his Myspace information on a piece of paper and gave it to me. Told me to check it out and listen to his music" she says.
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The Huddle House workers think their information may have helped police track Sam McCroskey at that Richmond airport.
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http://www.wtvr.com/wtvr-waiter-talks-with-suspected-killer,0,277538.story

And an occult expert to the rescue...
Investigators requested a former Virginia Beach detective make the drive to Farmville to help them understand.
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But why would Farmville Investigators call a former Virginia Beach Detective?

"My end goal is to educate parents, law enforcement, every discipline on the dangers of the occult," said Rimer.

Rimer is an expert in ritual and occult crimes.
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Speaking only to WAVY.com, Rimer says what magnified the terrifying scene was where investigators found the bodies of husband and wife Debra Kelley and Mark Neiderbrock, their teenage daughter Emma, and her friend, Melanie Wells. Strange symbols were also found in the home.

"They were satanic in nature," said Rimer.

So, how did they get there? Rimer said the answer lies in a type of violent music called horrorcore. Friends said it was a favorite of suspect, Richard McCroskey, and the two youngest victims.

"[The music is] about murder, about killing, about all kinds of ritual abuse. Anyone could take a look at that and that's the world that she was interested in. That's the world the killer was involved in," Rimer said.
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"There are parents that believe it's just a fad. It's just the music. It's just a game. It's just a movie, but I call it Russian roulette. You can't take that chance," said Rimer.

So how can you tell if your child is dabbling in the occult? Rimer said look for signs of self mutilation, numbers and letter written backwards, listen to their music and if it's "death metal" or horrorcore, talk to them. Also pay attention if they begin wearing dark-style clothing and make-up.
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http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_...ach_occult_expert_heads_to_farmville_20090924

JFConacrutch. The sky is falling down.
 
So how can you tell if your child is dabbling in the occult? Rimer said look for signs of self mutilation, numbers and letter written backwards, listen to their music and if it's "death metal" or horrorcore, talk to them. Also pay attention if they begin wearing dark-style clothing and make-up.
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They are talking about Don Rimer.
 
I wonder why Sam was even reading her text messages in the first place?

I really don't think it was the music itself that made Sam do this horrible thing. He had so many other things going on for so long and he found this music genre and a group of people that "accepted" him. He took the lyrics he listened to and wrote to the extreme. Even before discovering this, it sounds like he was a bit out of touch; like his sister commented, "it wasn't a Leave it to Beaver" household. Sounds like he was pretty much left to fend for himself.

I do, however, have to give credit to Emma's parents. They were aware of her obsession of this genre and didn't approve. From what I understand, they were in counseling and trying to work through it (don't remember the link right off). They even drove them to the concert to make sure their daughter would be safe I guess. Letting someone (not just Sam, but anyone) from the internet into their daughter's life at such a young age, IMO, was not a good idea. Not at all. Very trusting people, they were, I must say.

The more information that's released about the people involved I don't really think the music itself is the main reason. That was just a common thread; something else set these acts in motion. (But one also has to keep in mind the source of the information.)

JMO.

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piXyNinjette said:
I wouldnt doubt it bc the same person who broke the news to me that they were indeed all dead had said to me " i wonder if he saw the texts we were writing back and forth"
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You're in a very unique and probably somewhat awkward position right now. I admire your seemingly strong attitude about the whole situation right now. I know you must be hurting deeply, though.

Remember to take care of yourself, too.

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oh for the love of popcorn. the music imo does suck...but anyone who would kill because of music would kill for any reason.:dong:
 
mommacrazy30 said:
oh for the love of popcorn. the music imo does suck...but anyone who would kill because of music would kill for any reason.:dong:
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Oh, I agree I don't like this music at all. But then again, I also dislike C&W at the same level, but I wouldn't kill anyone over it. But that's just ME, not Sam, or anyone else.

I just think there were other issues, but that doesn't make it right either. Just very, very sad. I just don't have the words right now.

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Stella said:
Oh, I agree I don't like this music at all. But then again, I also dislike C&W at the same level, but I wouldn't kill anyone over it. But that's just ME, not Sam, or anyone else.

I just think there were other issues, but that doesn't make it right either. Just very, very sad. I just don't have the words right now.

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i cannot stand c&w..im livin in the 80's myself. but this kid was fucked up. very very fucked up
 
Rimer sounds like someone out of a 1980's Geraldo show, he needs to let go of the whole "occult" Shite and wake up!! Sorry this guy has really pissed me off.

"So how can you tell if your child is dabbling in the occult? Rimer said look for signs of self mutilation, numbers and letter written backwards, listen to their music and if it's "death metal" or horrorcore, talk to them. Also pay attention if they begin wearing dark-style clothing and make-up."

Apparently we have a world filled with satan worshipers or they are just emo kids :p
When are people going to start blaming the real reason for these disgusting crimes?? It's not because "the occult" it is because of 1 sick individual.
 
pixy, I dont know how you're staying so strong, but major kudos to you for it!

I just spent the past 2 hours reading this entire thread and am just mind-blown.
The blaming of the music and the occult does remind me heavily of the witch hunts of the 80's. I grew up on D&D and Ozzy Osbourne so I can sympathize with having your music and hobby choices blamed for the stupid actions of a few.

This kid was just a psychopath, pure and simple. Regardless of how "sweet" and "fun" people thought he was, he had this in him the whole time.There's a lot I don't understand, such as why and how. And, as a parent, why he was allowed to stay at that house anyway.

We'll probably never understand it all.
 
If you do a wee bit of research on Don Rimer you will find he is a scare monger and also a devout Christian (not that I have a problem with any religious beliefs) But the fact that he is involved in this case seriously worries me.

This is a great article about his "expertise" it is a long article but well worth a read. http://www.witchvox.com
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And if that isn't enough for you then here is a video of good old Don telling us all about the dangers of wearing black and werewolves...[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHFIr5DoSIM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHFIr5DoSIM[/ame]

I think the fact this guy is involved is going to totally make this case into a total disgrace of scare mongering and blame where it doesnt belong.He will spout lies and actually do more harm than good by blaming music,or "occult beliefs", and before you know it Sam won't be the one to blame but the "Evil occult world" that made him do it ughhhh YUCK!

Pixy I am sending you total well wishes and your strength amazes me. This case is terrible and shocking and my thoughts are with the victims family and friends. I hope the victims are at peace!
 
Nice how my name is being brought up in the press now..... trolling ppls myspace pages and stuff.. pathetic
Still the cabbie offers a lil more insight on maybe what was in his mind and his demeanor is just weird to me.
I hope my friend who sent the texts is not blaming himself for these murders, he is the same one who called me and told me the news and was crying so hard i could barely understand him.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/26/AR2009092601266.html?hpid=moreheadlines

McCroskey told Gibson Emma was angry because he read her text messages, including one from a man who told her he loved her. He said he had seen Emma talking to the man, a performer at an all-day music festival Sept. 12 that featured horrorcore artists rhyming about raping, killing and mutilating people.

"The impression I got was that he thought he was wrong for looking at it moreso than she was wrong," Gibson said. "I didn't pick up any anger at all there."
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McCroskey told Gibson he left the house as Emma slept, a day before she and her parents were supposed to drive him back to Richmond to catch a flight home. He carried only a small duffel bag, Gibson said, and talked about leaving a cell phone battery charger and other items behind.



"I'll have to sweet-talk her to mail them to me," he told Gibson. "But I don't think it'll be a problem. I think we'll make up."

McCroskey said they enjoyed the concert, and everything seemed fine in messages Emma posted on MySpace days after.

On her friend Pixy's MySpace page, Emma - who went by RagDOLL - talked about how many new people she met at the concert in a message sent at 7:52 a.m. Sept. 15.

"i made SOO many that night haha and sam SAYS HIIIIII!" she wrote, adding, "i can't wait till next year!! ill be driving next time"

Days later, Pixy posted that she was probably the last person who talked to Emma online."i wonder how long she was alive after that. she never accepted my reply back," she wrote.

Farmville police investigator Andy Ellington said officers were using the messages to try to figure out when Emma, Kelley and Wells may have been killed.

Niederbrock told the treasurer at Walker's Presbyterian Church on Sept. 17 that he was going to Richmond. On charging documents, police listed that as the day he was killed.

McCroskey also is charged with taking money from Niederbrock and stealing his 2000 Honda. Police say McCroskey got the Honda stuck on the side of the road after 4 a.m. on Sept. 18, and deputies who responded wrote him a ticket for not having a driver's license and towed the vehicle.

The tow truck driver dropped McCroskey off at a 24-hour gas station. Gibson picked him up at a Huddle House more than a quarter-mile away around 8:30 a.m.

Both drivers said they noticed a foul odor on McCroskey. Police have said some of the bodies found in the home were badly decomposed.

"It wasn't something I've never smelled before," Gibson said.

Gibson said McCroskey didn't tell him he was an aspiring rapper by the name of "Syko Sam," and McCroskey didn't talk about the music's macabre lyrics. But he did talk about his love for the music business and was excited the record companies he helped promote at the concert had sold 200 CDs, which he told Gibson was rare at an event.

"It just struck me that he was such a nice guy," Gibson said.

"He just didn't seem like the monster at all."
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Melanie's mom is now saying more of what she knows confirming that Emma's dad was the last to be killed! Sam must have saw Melanie's parents outside for those 7 hours wednesday when they sat outside her house and no one came to the door. Wonder what in the hell was going thru his brain?? Sad we will probably never know
Click to read the whole article, its VERY interesting but way to long to post it all here!

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/crime/article/FARM27_20090926-221606/295789/

Mark Niederbrock was on the phone with his 70-year-old mother in Illinois when he got a call on the other line that would lead to his death.

It was Kathleen Wells, calling from West Virginia, and she couldn't get in touch with her daughter, Melanie, who was in Farmville visiting Mark's daughter, Emma.

Niederbrock said goodbye to his mother and told her he was going to his estranged wife's house to check on the two teenagers.

That telephone conversation the afternoon of Sept. 17 was the last time Jan Niederbrock spoke to her only child.

About 24 hours later, police found Mark Niederbrock's body and the bodies of Emma Niederbrock, 16; Wells, 18, of Inwood, W.Va.; and Emma's mother, Longwood University professor Debra S. Kelley. The victims were bludgeoned to death in Kelley's home, but authorities have not said exactly how or when they were killed, nor have they assigned a motive.

The killings and the arrest of Emma Niederbrock's boyfriend, Richard Samuel Alden McCroskey III, 20, of Castro Valley, Calif. -- an aspiring rapper with songs about murder, rotting bodies and voices in his head -- have shaken the Farmville community of 7,300. Residents are alarmed not only at the cruelty of the crime but also its utter strangeness.

As new details emerged last week about McCroskey's macabre music interests and bizarre movements after the killings, the community is bracing itself, knowing the story is likely to become even more disturbing.

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Sam McCroskey lived with his father and 21-year-old sister, Sarah, at their home in Castro Valley.

He always was an average student, and he had friends, according to his mother, Chevelle McCroskey, who separated from her husband a few months ago. He took karate lessons, enjoyed jogging and watching horror movies with his family, and he never got a detention in school, she said.

Chevelle McCroskey was so protective of her son that she worked as a teacher's aide from his kindergarten through third-grade years. In 10th grade, he started an independent study program, working mostly at home, and earned a GED diploma.

Sam McCroskey's father works construction and plays guitar in a band called S&M, and his sister, a drummer, used to play for a heavy-metal band.

McCroskey, whose stage name is Syko Sam, spent a lot of time recording music in his room, which was decorated with a hockey mask like the one worn by the Jason character in the "Friday the 13th" movies.

In one of his songs, McCroskey raps about murdering people, then stealing a car and frantically trying to discard the bodies. In another, he raps about voices urging him on in a murder rampage and refers to the smell of rotting human remains.

McCroskey started talking with Emma Niederbrock, a pretty girl with bright pink hair, about a year ago. The two talked by phone almost daily.

They arranged to meet for the first time in early September.

"I cant waiiiit to see you baby its like 6:17 AM, and ive been up since 4ish filled with uber amounts of excitement I can't wait. i leave to pick you up in five hours. gahh . . . ," Emma wrote on his MySpace page. "My insides feel all squishy. I love you sooo SO much baby; forever and for always."

Emma and her mother picked him up at the airport, and McCroskey later said he was amazed by Emma's smile.

It is not clear how Emma and McCroskey spent the few days between his arrival Sept. 7 and Sept. 10, when they left Farmville for Southgate, Mich., for the Strictly for the Wicked Festival on Sept. 12. Debra Kelley and Mark Niederbrock drove their daughter, McCroskey and Melanie Wells.

When Mark Niederbrock first met McCroskey, he thought he was a nice young man, said Marvin Glover of Walker's Presbyterian Church in Appomattox County, where Niederbrock was pastor. Niederbrock had shared his worries about his daughter's music with his congregation, but he could not bring himself to forbid it.

"It was something she wanted to do," Glover said, "and Mark loved his daughter."

In Michigan, they stayed at a motel -- Kelley, Wells and Emma Niederbrock in one room, Mark Niederbrock in his own room, and McCroskey in a third room.

There, they met up with friends Andres Shrim, a horrorcore rapper who goes by the name SickTanicK, and his girlfriend, a fellow performer he identified only as Razakel.

The night before the festival, McCroskey, Wells and Emma Niederbrock hung out with Shrim and Razakel. Razakel braided Wells' hair. McCroskey was quiet but got along with everyone.

Shrim remembers having a soda with McCroskey on the motel balcony, and he ribbed McCroskey about the hickies on his neck. "He just kind of giggled," Shrim said.

While Emma seemed excited to meet McCroskey in person just days before, the couple apparently had a falling out during his visit, possibly after McCroskey found a text message on her phone from another man and confronted her.

Shrim said McCroskey and Emma weren't clingy at the music festival, but he was unaware of a disagreement.

"As far as I had seen, everything was cool," Shrim said. "You didn't see themselves around each other as you would think if they were together. If there was some sort of disagreement, they kept it private."

Damian "Insane D" Pavlovich, who also performed at the festival, said McCroskey was oddly quiet and gave him a bad vibe. "He was videotaping the show, but he was kind of in his own corner," he said.

Several YouTube videos posted by Shrim show Wells and Emma dancing and singing near the stage as Shrim and Razakel performed. Pavlovich said he later saw the girls without McCroskey at an after-party in a motel room.

"They seemed to be having probably the best time of their life," Pavlovich recalled. "In a world of pain and anger that they go through, it was probably a time of bliss for them."

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The two parents and the three young horrorcore fans returned to Farmville on Sunday, Sept. 13.

On MySpace, Wells wrote that the festival was great, and that she planned to return to West Virginia on Wednesday. Shrim said he believes his girlfriend last talked to Wells and Emma Niederbrock that Tuesday.

But Wells didn't make it home.

Worried, her mother called Mark Niederbrock on Thursday about 2 p.m. and also called Farmville police. A town officer went to the Kelley home at her request just before midnight, and McCroskey answered the door calmly and said Wells was at the movies.

The officer left.

McCroskey also spoke by phone with Wells' mother and told her the same thing.

After the officer's visit, McCroskey called police and said he heard noises in the basement and asked police to come check it. All four victims were dead by then, police say, and it's not clear why McCroskey called police back to the house.

Two officers arrived and entered a different part of the house from where the bodies later were discovered. They checked the basement, which was covered in animal feces, and then left. Authorities later found two dogs and two cats inside the house.

"They're trying to beat themselves up thinking that they could have done something, but it just wasn't anything out of the ordinary," Farmville police Sgt. Andy Ellington said. "There was no reason to think that he didn't belong there."

About 4 a.m., McCroskey got Mark Niederbrock's car stuck while trying to turn around on a narrow, remote stretch of Poor House Road in Prince Edward County. A deputy ticketed him for driving without a license. The car had not been reported stolen.

Tow-truck driver Elton Napier moved the car and gave McCroskey a ride to a nearby Sheetz convenience store. He noticed that McCroskey smelled like a dead animal and said it made him sick even with the windows down in the wrecker.

"I told one of the deputies, 'You ought to take him down and give him a bath,'" Napier recalled.

He also asked McCroskey about his neck, which appeared to be covered with hickies. McCroskey said he got them from his girlfriend.

At 6 a.m., waiter Cody Scott arrived for his shift at the 24-hour Huddle House restaurant about a quarter-mile from Sheetz. He saw McCroskey sitting at the counter and drinking a No Fear energy drink.

McCroskey ordered a BBQ sandwich and put mustard on it, which Scott found odd. He and Scott talked off and on for a couple of hours -- McCroskey said he was a rapper from California and told Scott how to find his music on MySpace.

Scott, who also is from California, asked McCroskey what he was doing in Farmville. "I had to take care of some business," McCroskey replied.

Scott noticed that McCroskey had bags under his eyes and told him he looked exhausted. McCroskey said he hadn't slept in days.
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My Thoughts EXACTLY! Exactly the reason i asked Ragdoll after a while "wheres Sam? why arent u all hanging out"
As much as they gushed about each other i was expecting to go there and see them all lovey dovey but i never saw them talk NOT EVEN ONCE. I never saw her act sad or anything. I talked to Sam a few times and he didnt seem sad or mad or "staring at her" type stuff. Matter of fact he was hugging and kissing all over another female which kinda pissed me off but really wasnt my business and Ragdoll just shrugged and was like IDC when i asked her wtf why is sam kissin on this other bxtch?

While Emma seemed excited to meet McCroskey in person just days before, the couple apparently had a falling out during his visit, possibly after McCroskey found a text message on her phone from another man and confronted her.

Shrim said McCroskey and Emma weren't clingy at the music festival, but he was unaware of a disagreement.

"As far as I had seen, everything was cool," Shrim said. "You didn't see themselves around each other as you would think if they were together. If there was some sort of disagreement, they kept it private."

Damian "Insane D" Pavlovich, who also performed at the festival, said McCroskey was oddly quiet and gave him a bad vibe. "He was videotaping the show, but he was kind of in his own corner," he said.

Several YouTube videos posted by Shrim show Wells and Emma dancing and singing near the stage as Shrim and Razakel performed. Pavlovich said he later saw the girls without McCroskey at an after-party in a motel room.

"They seemed to be having probably the best time of their life," Pavlovich recalled. "In a world of pain and anger that they go through, it was probably a time of bliss for them."
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http://www.wtvr.com/wtvr-farmville-murders-new-information,0,31503.story

I hope this is the truth


BREAKING NEWSRichmond Police On the Scene of a Murder
Were Farmville Murder Victims Killed While Sleeping?
Source close to investigation divulges new details.
Mike Bergazzi, Mark Holmberg and Angela PelleranoProducer, reporters
September 29, 2009


RICHMOND - A source with knowledge of the Farmville murders investigation has divulged new details about how the killings took place.

There is a chance that at least some of the female victims may have been bludgeoned in their sleep, the source said, although only the final autopsy report will be able to confirm that.

The source also said that the lone male victim, Mark Niederbrock, was attacked in a different way than the three female victims. And the source said it does not appear that any of the female victims were sexually assaulted.

Regarding the crime scene, the source said that police did not find any overt evidence that the slayings were ritualistic in nature. CBS 6 had previously confirmed that a former Virginia Beach police detective who is also an expert on occult violence had been contacted by investigators.

The bodies of Niederbrock, his estranged wife Debra Kelly, their 16-year-old daughter Emma and her 18-year-old friend Melanie Wells were found inside Kelly's Farmville home on Friday, September 18.

Police have charged 20-year-old Richard "Sam" McCroskey with the murder of Mark Niederbrock, and expect to charge him with three additional counts of murder.

McCroskey, who lives in California and is an aspiring "horrorcore" rapper, was arrested at Richmond International Airport the day after the bodies were discovered.

Investigators tell CBS 6 that they have not determined a motive in the case, and they say that they have yet to interview McCroskey.
Copyright © 2009, WTVR
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Nice how my name is being brought up in the press now..... trolling ppls myspace pages and stuff.. pathetic
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No offense Pixy, but we do shit like that here all the time. Although I could understand not wanting to brought further into this, ya know?
 
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/state_regional/article/FARM04S_20091003-223408/297392/

Published: October 4, 2009


FARMVILLE -- The initial shock of last month's quadruple homicide has begun to fade for some town residents, allowing them to step back and examine the impact of a baffling crime.

Some Farmville residents have lost sleep thinking about the bludgeoning deaths of Longwood University professor Debra S. Kelley; her estranged husband, Mark Niederbrock; their daughter, Emma Niederbrock; and her friend Melanie Wells, who was visiting from West Virginia. Police found the bodies Sept. 18 in the home that Kelley and Emma shared near the Longwood campus.

Residents say the killings have marred the town's peaceful image, but Farmville is no stranger to grisly or bizarre crimes.

Nine years ago, a town police officer stopped a man in a car who had blood on his hands and an ax on his front seat. He was convicted of killing his ex-wife and her mother outside the town limits. The two women ran a vintage-clothing store on Main Street in Farmville.

Then, in 2001, a psychiatrist killed his wife in their Farmville home and then shot himself while on a deer stand. Authorities found him hanging from a rope tied to a tree.

But the scale of this month's crime -- four victims killed in one home -- had not been seen in central Virginia since the murders of the Harvey and Tucker-Baskerville families in their Richmond homes by two men in early 2006.

Prosecutors who handled those killings in Richmond say they can identify with how consuming such a case can be for the law-enforcement officials involved, and the toll it can take on them.

Richmond Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Learned Barry, who helped prosecute the Harvey and Tucker-Baskerville killings, said those cases came to mind when he heard about the Farmville quadruple homicide.

"I just thought for a very peaceful, pleasant community, that's a huge number of people to be killed in one place at one time," Barry said. "It really struck me: nice people being killed. That's not normal for Farmville."

Richmond Commonwealth's Attorney Michael N. Herring, who also was involved in the Richmond prosecutions, said he believes it will take the town a long time to come to terms with the losses.

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On the night after police discovered the Farmville victims, Town Manager Gerald J. Spates stood outside the Kelley home on First Avenue.

"It's tough on the officers that worked the crime scene, because I'm sure it was very tragic," Spates said. "I had one tell me that he wouldn't want to go back up there again."

Spates and Mayor Sydnor C. Newman Jr. praised the handling of the case by the Farmville Police Department led by acting chief Wade Stimpson, who assumed that position after Police Chief Stuart Dunnavant retired in May, citing health problems.

Newman said talk of the killings has quieted down, although he noted that residents have been driving by the Kelley house to gawk.

Farmville native Betty Eike said the community still wants answers about what motivated the killings.

The day after the bodies were discovered in Farmville, suspect Richard Samuel Alden McCroskey III, 20, of California was arrested at Richmond International Airport while awaiting a trip back to California. He had met Emma Niederbrock through their mutual interest in horrorcore, a form of rap music that is replete with violent lyrics and was little-known in Farmville or beyond until after the crime.

So far, McCroskey has been charged only with the death of Mark Niederbrock, although Farmville authorities said they expect to file additional homicide charges. Authorities say the suspect is not cooperating.

Police have not named the weapon used in the killings, and they haven't said when the victims died. Police have said the killings might have occurred on different days.

Eike, who lives a few blocks from the Kelley home, said she couldn't read news accounts or watch them on TV before bedtime because they would cause her to wake up and think about the killings. The Longwood employee said several of her colleagues have said the same thing.

The killings also prompted several old high school friends who have moved away from Farmville to write and call her to express support and see how she was doing.

"It's been so overwhelming for people that I think they've been reaching out more and more," Eike said.

Melissa Seamster, who runs the Sunnyside Farms fruit and vegetable stand in town, said many residents have remarked that the killings taught them that horrible things can happen even in Farmville, and that parents should caution their children about meeting people online.

Dale Lee, 60, who lives a block from the Kelley home, said the killings were especially tragic because they took the lives of two teenagers.
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Also something else I found, that I thought was pretty interesting, was a profile on the dating site www.okcupid.com of Sam's. The last login showed as Sept. 4, just a few days before he went to VA. It has a few pictures on it and also he writes a small 'Self-Summary' on there about himself. You have to register for the site to view the contents, but here's some of what it has to say:

http://www.okcupid.com/profile/LiLdEmOnDoG

My Self-Summary
I'm 20 years of age and will be turning 21 this December and I cant wait! :]
I usually can be pretty random/weird at most times but in a good way. I been told I'm a great, funny, nice guy and that I'm very mature for my age. I love to laugh and have fun, but who doesn't right? I'm always down to meet new people. I'm pretty creative, I like to design Graphics and Websites. I love having a idea in my head and being able to make it come to life, its a true art form. I also love photography but that's a given to my graphic work. This may come off me being very cocky but that's not my intentions. I'm a very creative person overall, Music is also a big part of my life. Most of my friends are very talented musicians so it kinda rubs off on me to make music of my own time to time. I believe I'm pretty talented, I'm a fast learner. I self taught myself in everything I'm skilled at. I think I'm a very unique individual and that's the best part of me. I been told I'm not like most guys and I agree with that.. but to sum it up, I'm a guy on a endless journey looking for that missing part of me, my other half <3
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There's more on there, I can post it if anyone doesn't want to take the time to register, but you can obviously see why some people are having a hard time dealing with the fact that he did these horrible things...
 
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There's more on there, I can post it if anyone doesn't want to take the time to register, but you can obviously see why some people are having a hard time dealing with the fact that he did these horrible things...
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Wasn't he with Emma? So, he was looking for someone else to be with while he was supposed to be Emma's boyfriend. What an ass. If she knew this, maybe she wouldn't have had him come to her home.

He looks innocent, but the devil is known for his trickery. LMAO, he is a fucking evil little fucker.
 
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