Little known underground Horrorcore music genre celebrates macabre killings

'Horrorcore' singer suspected in Virginia killings
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20-year-old rapper of "Horrorcore" accused of Virginia slayings

Little known underground music genre celebrates macabre killings

Tow-truck driver gave suspect a lift; said he was "stinkiest rascal I've ever smelled"

Defense lawyer said he's unsure Richard McCroskey "gets the severity of everything"


By Wayne Drash
CNN


(CNN) -- 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.
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