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N.H. prosecutor: Teens picked slaying victim at random
Boston Globe ^ | October 6, 2009 | John R. Ellement, Peter Schworm, Andrew Ryan, and Brian R. Ballou

Posted on 10/06/2009 8:20:28 PM PDT by greatdefender

MONT VERNON, N.H. -- The four teenagers accused of breaking into a home here and using a machete and a knife to butcher a mother and her 11-year-old daughter allegedly chose their victims by chance.

"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."

The violent whim allegedly took the teens to the home of Kim Cates, who lived in one of four houses on a quiet dirt road in this bucolic town about 13 miles north of the Massachusetts border. At 4 a.m. on Sunday, they are accused of breaking into the ranch-style home and killing Cates, 42, and severely injuring her daughter.

Prosecutors allege that Steven Spader, 17, drove that night and carried a machete, a detail that elicited a gasp of horror from the gallery when the crime was described in court. The lanky teen with buzzed hair wore baggy powder-blue basketball shorts and handcuffs as he faced charges that included murder and attempted murder. Like his three codefendants who were arraigned separately, Spader stood expressionless.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: homeinvasion; murder; teens; thugs
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1 posted on 10/06/2009 8:20:28 PM PDT by greatdefender
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To: greatdefender

Meanwhile......the creeps in Hollyweird continue to get rich making slasher movies.


2 posted on 10/06/2009 8:22:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
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To: greatdefender

Four Skinheads

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/10/4_teens_arreste.html


3 posted on 10/06/2009 8:24:00 PM PDT by Loud Mime (The windshield wiper president - back and forth, back and forth on the teleprompter.)
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To: greatdefender
This should convince somoe that the death penalty is a necessary thing.
5 posted on 10/06/2009 8:25:57 PM PDT by Candor7 (The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
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To: Gargantua

What are you talking about!

Everyone - victims and perps - are white.


6 posted on 10/06/2009 8:27:11 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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To: greatdefender

If convicted, put them to death. No questions asked. Pure evil.


7 posted on 10/06/2009 8:27:59 PM PDT by rlmorel (Obama, The Flatulence of One Thousand Black Dogs After Eating Boiled Eggs Be Upon Him...)
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To: BenLurkin

Just four Street Thugs that should be put down like an old sick dog.

8 posted on 10/06/2009 8:28:08 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: Gargantua

None of the perps were black,according to photos:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/10/4_teens_arreste.html


9 posted on 10/06/2009 8:28:21 PM PDT by Candor7 (The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
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To: greatdefender

lynch mob


10 posted on 10/06/2009 8:29:04 PM PDT by GodfearingTexan
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To: Gargantua

They are all white.


11 posted on 10/06/2009 8:30:16 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: BenLurkin
Meanwhile......the creeps in Hollyweird continue to get rich making slasher movies.

Hollywood had nothing to do with what these thugs did.

12 posted on 10/06/2009 8:30:31 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: greatdefender

Blank generation.


13 posted on 10/06/2009 8:32:08 PM PDT by dennisw (It's not called the Wheel. It's called the Carousel.)
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To: greatdefender

Brrr. Exterminate the brutes.


14 posted on 10/06/2009 8:32:13 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
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To: greatdefender
Teens accused of murder described as good boys

Aren't they always? Execute every one of the subhuman curs.

15 posted on 10/06/2009 8:32:16 PM PDT by thecabal (Destroy Progressivism)
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To: Gargantua

Put the bong down.

;-)


16 posted on 10/06/2009 8:32:19 PM PDT by 2Jedismom
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To: trumandogz
Well, we may or may not ever know — one way or the other.

At this point it is probably premature to conclude that Hollyweird’s poisonous blight on our culture was not an influence on the accused.

17 posted on 10/06/2009 8:33:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
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To: trumandogz
Spader lives in an affluent subdivision in Brookline, N.H

Apparently street thug wannabes.

18 posted on 10/06/2009 8:35:32 PM PDT by OCC
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To: greatdefender

Victim.

More pictures of perps and victims.


19 posted on 10/06/2009 8:36:34 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Don't tell 0bama what comes after a trillion.)
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To: greatdefender
Absolutely grisly.

I'm sure there will be mothers saying, "but my son's a good boy..."

20 posted on 10/06/2009 8:36:42 PM PDT by murphE ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." - GK Chesterton)
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To: Gargantua

Actually a worthless rich white kid from Brookline, MA


21 posted on 10/06/2009 8:37:13 PM PDT by EDINVA (Obama CAN'T see the Olympics from his back porch !)
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To: Candor7

The socialist state of NH will house them for life at tax payers expense where they will be absolutely no use to society whatsoever....meanwhile, the Chinese would schedule these vermin for a visit from one of their mobile execution/organ harvesting trucks! Man are they (the Chinese)on top of things! (And they charge the relatives for the execution/harvesting fees!!! Nothing goes to waste there...)


22 posted on 10/06/2009 8:37:25 PM PDT by databoss (Keep The Change....)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Better link: http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/gallery/nh_killings/


23 posted on 10/06/2009 8:38:21 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Don't tell 0bama what comes after a trillion.)
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To: EDINVA

Brookline, NH, I think.


24 posted on 10/06/2009 8:39:08 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Don't tell 0bama what comes after a trillion.)
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To: greatdefender
"Before they entered the home, all four defendants were aware that the intent was to kill the occupants."

Why weren't all four of these bastards charged with murder? Instead, only two of them were.

25 posted on 10/06/2009 8:40:43 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: murphE

The father of one of kids, Spader, I think, was already on the news trying to frame an alibi for him.


26 posted on 10/06/2009 8:40:50 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Don't tell 0bama what comes after a trillion.)
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To: rawhide

At least initially, two of them were armed when they entered the home and two were not. I’d be perfectly content if they fried them all.


27 posted on 10/06/2009 8:42:58 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Don't tell 0bama what comes after a trillion.)
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To: BenLurkin

You are probably right.

Some kook in Hollywierd has already proclaimed what a great “moral compass” they have while defending RomanWhatever.

These degenerates, like atheletes do have influence.

I think it speaks of our deplorable times.


28 posted on 10/06/2009 8:43:48 PM PDT by berdie (Hey, Bill Mahr...That's Mrs. Cracker to you.)
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To: databoss
This kind of case cries out for the death penalty. I hope that no more N. H. residents have to die so others can live free.As long as there are thugs like these on the loose, and there are hundreds of them in N.H., no one there can live free.

This case will ignite the consevative base in NH like nothing has in a very long while.

29 posted on 10/06/2009 8:43:51 PM PDT by Candor7 (The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
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To: OCC

Our country must come to grips with the issue of violence committed by those kids that have to grow-up in suburbia.

It seems that every time you turn around, there is some kid raised in one of those suburban homes that is our randomly murdering people. Sometimes they murder on the streets over a drug deal gone bad and other times it is just some random killings at a suburban high school or in someone’s house.

What is it with those suburban people?


30 posted on 10/06/2009 8:44:28 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: Gargantua

I think they are missing your irony.


31 posted on 10/06/2009 8:46:10 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: EDINVA; Gargantua
Actually a worthless rich white kid from Brookline, MA

Given the language of Gargantua's statement, I think he was yanking our chain.

32 posted on 10/06/2009 8:48:19 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Hey Obama. Where is Osama Bin Laden?)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Yeah, you’re right. I have to brush up on reading comprehension.


33 posted on 10/06/2009 8:50:05 PM PDT by EDINVA (Obama CAN'T see the Olympics from his back porch !)
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To: thecabal
Execute every one of the subhuman curs.

The saddest thing is, in New England none will be executed...and we'll all be lucky if they each serve 20 years.

34 posted on 10/06/2009 8:52:39 PM PDT by AnalogReigns
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To: Gargantua

Reading the article helps.


35 posted on 10/06/2009 8:55:32 PM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military Men And Women)
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To: trumandogz

“Hollywood had nothing to do with what these thugs did.”

I’m not so sure. Seems to me that the films and TV have created a culture of destruction and death, and the kids have become desensitized. Don’t misunderstand - I’m not excusing these so-called humans - but, you know, we don’t allow marketing cigarettes to kids, but we don’t monitor the violence they watch all the time.


36 posted on 10/06/2009 8:57:15 PM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: Candor7
This should convince somoe that the death penalty is a necessary thing.

These guys are teens...what's waiting for them behind prison walls is going to be a fate worse than death, and they are looking at about 30 years of 'catching' for the 'home team'. Enjoy it, punks...you've earned it. (I would bill the parents for the costs of their incarceration. Why abuse the taxpayers?)

37 posted on 10/06/2009 8:57:15 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: greatdefender

Prayers for Mr Cates abd the injured child..Evil exists..This sounds like a thrill kill.


38 posted on 10/06/2009 8:57:17 PM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military Men And Women)
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To: greatdefender

Nothing but animals that need to be put down.


39 posted on 10/06/2009 8:57:46 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: AnalogReigns

NH has the death penalty, but the libs squeal like pigs to keep it from being used...


40 posted on 10/06/2009 8:58:22 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Dallas59
Nothing but animals that need to be put down.

They carved up a little girl...inmates take a real dim view of that...expect a tragic suicide or two in the near future.

41 posted on 10/06/2009 9:00:12 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: trumandogz
It looks like some sort of design cut into the hair of the first boy from the left.

Pentagram?

42 posted on 10/06/2009 9:01:07 PM PDT by Markos33 (Third World trickle up poverty will result in cascading Third World tyranny.)
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To: ElayneJ
Seems to me that the films and TV have created a culture of destruction and death, and the kids have become desensitized.

Again Hollywood is not to blame for the murderous actions of these kids or of the kids who killed that child in Chicago.

43 posted on 10/06/2009 9:02:24 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: Markos33

...or the symbol for anarchy..?


44 posted on 10/06/2009 9:04:00 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: greatdefender

Four bullets and the state is saved the cost of a trial while justice gains a well deserved victory.

Such a shame that tonight earthworms are being denied a decent meal in four unmarked graves.


45 posted on 10/06/2009 9:10:57 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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To: greatdefender

My first reaction was horror and anger of course. But really, this story makes no sense. There is something going on far deeper and far more evil than what this piece indicated.


46 posted on 10/06/2009 9:11:29 PM PDT by khnyny
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To: greatdefender

In Texas.......if you kill us.....we kill you back. :)


47 posted on 10/06/2009 9:16:04 PM PDT by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: trumandogz

Of course not. But do you not think that environment impacts a kid’s development? No, it’s not Hollywood’s fault - they don’t do the criminal acts, and they’re apparently providing what customers want to see, but constant violence can’t be good. Actually, I think parents should take a much more hands-on approach to parenting, and monitor what their kids do and see - but that’s a different subject.


48 posted on 10/06/2009 9:20:32 PM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: greatdefender

Prayers need to be said for the victims, especially the little girl. Heartbreaking.

It never ceases to amaze me how depraved the human race actually is.


49 posted on 10/06/2009 9:21:11 PM PDT by khnyny
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To: Markos33
Anarchist symbol:

I work with folks whose kids are current high-school classmates and former childhood friends of the perps. According to a co-worker's child, one perp had drawn a swastika on his face and was a fan of Charles Manson. Maybe the child had meant this symbol.

50 posted on 10/06/2009 9:22:22 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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