Teen Murderers Inspired By Hollywood

October 20. 2009

 Teenage killer Christopher Gribble

A group of teens that committed a grisly case of murder in Mont Vernon, N.H., were reportedly influenced by morbid, macabre, violent Hollywood music and films.

It is not the first time violent and grotesque entertainment from Hollywood inspired murder. Years ago, rock artists Metallica and Ozzy Osborne, were sued in a case where children were murdered by two people inspired by their Satanic music containing violent imagery.

The vile film "Natural Born Killers" also faced such legal scrutiny, after a couple mimicked the killing spree shown in the film.

Grisly music, TV may have molded teens

Friday, October 9, 2009 - A toxic mix of horrorcore hip-hop, slasher cable TV and a Manson cult obsession may have been enough to twist the troubled minds of four teens accused of unleashing a murderous rage in bucolic Mont Vernon, N.H.

The bombardment of all the blood-spattered pop culture may have sapped the humanity from the accused Granite State killers, a criminal profiler said...

The Showtime series features serial slayer Dexter Morgan, who preys on other killers while working as a blood-spatter analyst for Miami police.

One of the mayhem-minded teens accused of hacking Kimberly Lynn Cates, 42, to death in her bed and wounding her 11-year-old girl, Jaimie, in a random predawn attack Sunday later raved on Facebook about “Dexter.”

“Dexter is such a funny show!” wrote Christopher Gribble, 19.

Gribble’s alleged partner in the grisly attack, Steven Spader, 17, matched his taste for gore.

Friends said Spader was a fan of so-called horrorcore hip-hop - a gruesome subgenre riddled with lyrics about Satanism, cannibalism, murder and rape...

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