BreakingNews Horrorcore rapper Richard 'Sam' McCroskey III, aka Syko Sam, pleads guilty to killing four people - Times-Dispatch http://bit.ly/b3UET3
Richard Samuel Alden McCroskey III pleaded guilty today to two counts of capital murder and two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of four people last year.
He was sentenced to life in prison on each charge as part of a plea agreement.
McCroskey faced capital murder charges in the bludgeoning deaths of Longwood University professor Debra S. Kelley; her husband, church pastor Mark Niederbrock; their daughter, Emma Niederbrock, 16; and her friend Melanie Wells, 18, of West Virginia.
The four bodies were found Sept. 18 of last year in Kelley's home on First Avenue, just blocks from campus. McCroskey was captured the next day at Richmond International Airport.
McCroskey, who recorded music with lyrics that obsessed about murder and gore, had met Emma online and was visiting Emma from his home in California.
Emma's parents took the young couple and Wells to a horrocore music festival in Michigan a few days before the four victims' bodies were found.
Authorities have not assigned a motive to the case.
Richard Samuel Alden McCroskey III pleaded guilty today to two counts of capital murder and two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of four people last year.
He was sentenced to life in prison on each charge as part of a plea agreement.
McCroskey faced capital murder charges in the bludgeoning deaths of Longwood University professor Debra S. Kelley; her husband, church pastor Mark Niederbrock; their daughter, Emma Niederbrock, 16; and her friend Melanie Wells, 18, of West Virginia.
The four bodies were found Sept. 18 of last year in Kelley's home on First Avenue, just blocks from campus. McCroskey was captured the next day at Richmond International Airport.
McCroskey, who recorded music with lyrics that obsessed about murder and gore, had met Emma online and was visiting Emma from his home in California.
Emma's parents took the young couple and Wells to a horrocore music festival in Michigan a few days before the four victims' bodies were found.
Authorities have not assigned a motive to the case.