Kimberly Cates Machete Slaying Causes Uproar in Small New Hampshire Town
All is not baseball and apple pie lately in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire. The residents of this small, quaint New England town of about 2,000 people are in an uproar over the recent random attack of nurse Kimberly Cates, 42, and her 11-year-old daughter, Jaime, in an unprovoked incident believed to have been carried out sometime prior to 4 a.m. on Sunday, October 4, 2009.
The plan to rob a home at random was purportedly hatched the night before when a group of four teenagers got together at the home of William Marks, 18, one of the alleged planners. The other three teens included Steven Spader, 17, Christopher Gribble, 19, and Quinn Glover, 17. One of the teens, Gribble, described by friends and acquaintances as a home-schooled Mormon with aspirations to do missionary work, apparently told friends that he saw himself as a "destroying angel." He also allegedly told a friend that he hated his father and wanted to kill him, and once told someone that the most difficult of the Ten Commandments to follow was "Thou shalt not kill."
"He comes out and says the hardest commandment to keep is murder," said the friend. "You just don't want to think that your friend could ever do something like that. They say things about killing someone and you don't know they are going to do it. You just brush it off and hope he's going to get help. Really, we should have been calling the police."
The plan, according to prosecutors, was to kill anyone who was at home at the time of the invasion. After the plan had been set, Spader allegedly drove the other three teenagers to Cates' neighborhood and the group chose Cates' home because it was on an isolated road. Cates' husband, David, was out of town on business.
Spader has been accused of cutting Cates’ head, torso, arms and legs with a machete while she was in bed, and Gribble has been accused of stabbing her with a knife. Spader and Gribble were also accused of attacking Cates' daughter, Jaime, by slicing her throat open. After allegedly taking valuables from the residence, Spader acted as the getaway driver. Prosecutors have implied that Spader may have been the group's ringleader.
After the four teenagers left the home, Jaime Cates was able to call 911 for help. Thankfully, she survived the attack and was being treated at a Boston, Massachusetts hospital.
Later that same Sunday morning, Spader and Gribble walked into a store at the Pheasant Lane Mall, both seen smiling and calm, where they allegedly sold gold necklaces and chains believed stolen during the robbery of Cates' home. Gribble provided his name and address to the store's clerk, which undoubtedly assisted police in identifying the suspects in the Cates' case so quickly. All four of the suspects were arrested the next day, and made brief court appearances on Tuesday, October 6. None of them entered pleas at that time. Authorities have released very few details about the case, and have sealed the affidavits that support the charges.
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