'Horrorcore' singer suspected in Virginia killings

[Locutus]

Elizabeth McCutchen and a friend were walking to book club two weeks ago in quaint Farmville, Virginia, when they strolled by a home on First Avenue. "Something smells dead," her friend said.

They were thinking animal. A dog, a cat, something like that. They never imagined they were smelling the remains of massacred humans. It was Thursday, September 17. But another 24 hours would pass before police made the gruesome discovery.

Richard Samuel McCroskey III -- a 20-year-old rapper in the underground genre of "Horrorcore" who sang of chopping people into pieces -- has been arrested in connection with the slayings. The crime scene was so horrifying police would not even describe it, saying only that the victims died of blunt force trauma.

The victims were Mark Niederbrock, 50, the beloved pastor at Walker's Presbyterian Church; his 16-year-old daughter, Emma Niederbrock; Melanie Wells, Emma's 18-year-old friend from West Virginia; and Niederbrock's estranged wife, Debra Kelley, 53, a professor at Longwood University.

McCroskey has been charged only in the killing of Mark Niederbrock. Police and the prosecutor's office did not return repeated phone calls from CNN. But in late September, authorities said more charges are pending.

Emma was described as a fan of Horrorcore and had met McCroskey through their mutual affection for the little-known music genre. Police said she invited McCroskey to fly from his northern California home, stay with her in Virginia and then attend the Strictly for the Wicked Festival, a Horrorcore fest in Michigan featuring bands with names like Dismembered Fetus and Phrozen Body Boy.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/06/virginia.horrorcore.killings/index.html

[Locutus]

Horrorcore?  Seriously.  Look at this asshole:



Looks like one fucked up individual!

[Locutus]

It also looks like a fucked up genre as well:

Horrorcore defines the style of hip hop music that focuses around horror-influenced topics that include Satanism, cannibalism, suicide, murder and rape. The lyrics are inspired by horror movies over moody, hardcore beats.[12] According to rapper Mars, "If you take Stephen King or Wes Craven and you throw them on a rap beat, that's who I am."[13] Horrorcore was described by Entertainment Weekly in 1995 as a "blend of hardcore rap and bloodthirsty metal."[14] The lyrical content of horrorcore is sometimes described as being similar to that of death metal, and some have referred to the genre as death rap.[15] Horrorcore artists often feature dark imagery in their music videos and base musical elements of songs upon horror film scores.[15]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horrorcore

[me]

His eyes have an evil look to them IMO but it might just be the get up he's wearing. 

[Locutus]

Well, since Virginia judges and juries have a penchant to hand down the death penalty in cases like this, it's doubtful he'll live to a ripe old age.

I'm all for people's rights to listen to whatever the hell they want to, but I don't understand anyone being into that shit.  That also goes to show the dangers in being too willing to invite someone into your home that you don't even know, especially if they're into this kind of crap. 

[Locutus]

You want to see some twisted crap, look at some of the lyrics of these songs (and I use that term very loosely).

http://usersites.horrorfind.com/home/horror/dhld/lyrics/QStrange/qstrangelyrics.html

[me]

 

[Sandy Eggo]

Kinda Mansonesque, huh? Irony or design? (considering the genre)

[followsthewolf]

Which Manson?

............Maybe both?

[Palehorse]

Once there was a time when Ozzy and Black Sabbath were vilified for using the line "would you like to see the pope on the end of a rope. . ."

[pariann]

...as in a soap effigy?   

[Palehorse]

...as in a soap effigy?   

Double meaning

[pariann]

But was it clever?  LOL