Farmville murders
| Farmville murders | |
|---|---|
Location of Farmville in the U.S. state of Virginia. | |
| Location | 505 First Avenue Farmville, Virginia, United States |
| Coordinates | 37°17.7971 N 78°24.0735 W |
Attack type | Quadruple homicide |
| Weapons | Ball-peen hammer and wood-splitting maul |
| Deaths | Mark Niederbrock (age 50) Dr. Debra S. Kelley (age 53) Emma Niederbrock (age 16) Melanie Wells (age 18) |
| Perpetrator | Richard Samuel McCroskey (age 20) |
The Farmville murders occurred in Farmville, Virginia, in September 2009 – the quadruple bludgeoning homicide of Mark Niederbrock, Debra S. Kelley, their daughter Emma Niederbrock and friend Melanie Wells.
Emma Niederbrock shared an online friendship with Richard Samuel McCroskey, a troubled aspiring rapper who travelled from California. Together, Emma, McCroskey, Emma's parents and Wells attended a horrorcore concert the week before. When Wells' mother could not locate her daughter, she alerted police, who discovered the murders.
McCroskey, 20 years old, was subsequently arrested, convicted of the murders and sentenced to life in prison. As of 2020, he is serving his sentence at Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.
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