Teens pawned murdered woman's jewelry
NASHUA - After allegedly murdering a Mont Vernon mother in her home and slashing her 11-year-old daughter, leaving her for dead, two Brookline teens sold gold jewelry at a shop in the Pheasant Lane Mall, the Union Leader reports.
A clerk at a store in the mall told the paper that the shop bought jewelry from Steven Spader, 17, and Christopher Gribble, 19, both of Brookline, sometime Sunday.
The two teens got $200 for the rings necklaces, which they claimed to have bought at a yard sale, the clerk said. The Union Leader did not name the store, or identify the clerk.
State law requires pawn shops and similar businesses to record the identities of persons selling used merchandise.
Christopher Gribble, 19, of 23 Oak Hill Road, Brookline, and Steven Spader, 17, of 7 Wallace Brook Road, Brookline, each face charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to murder. William Marks, 18, of 464 Boston Post Road, Amherst, and Quinn Glover, 17, of 34 Blueberry Hill Road, Amherst, each are charged with burglary, conspiracy to burglary, and robbery.
Prosecutors said the four teens set out to break into a house to steal, but agreed in advance to kill anyone they found home, and armed themselves accordingly.
They picked the home at 4 Trow Road, Mont Vernon, for its isolation, and Gribble and Spader are accused of murdering Kimberly Cates, 42, in her bed, using a knife and machete. The two teens also attacked Cates’ 11-year-old daughter, cutting her throat and chopping her leg.
Marks and Glover were seniors at Souhegan High School. Gribble was apparently home-schooled, and Spader dropped out of Hollis/Brookline High School last year.
Gribble was formerly a cadet in the U.S. Army Cadet Corps, but left the organization a year ago. His Facebook page, which has since been taken down, expressed a fondness for knives.
The three other teens all had Facebook profiles, too, though they are set to private, so that only their Facebook “friends” can view them. Anyone with a Facebook account can see their profile photos, and view lists of other local teens whom they counted as friends, however.
