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Kimberly Cates Update: Killer Steven Spader's Facebook page is a fake, says official

Official: Spader Couldn't Have Set Up Page
Steven Spader in court, August 2010 AP/Jim Cole

(CBS/AP) NASHUA, N.H. - A Facebook page set up for Steven Spader, the convicted mastermind of a disturbing plot to burglarize a random Mont Vernon home and kill its occupants, was not created by the killer, according to a New Hampshire prison official.

"Steven Spader himself would not have the ability to set this Web page up," said New Hampshire Department of Corrections Public Information Officer Jeff Lyons told WMUR-TV. "He does not have access to Internet or email in prison."

According to the station, the page was reportedly created in November. The most recent post on the account read, "Welcome home Christopher Gribble !!!!!!" The account has since been shut down.

Prosecutors say Spader and co-defendant Christopher Gribble wielded a machete and knife in the pre-dawn attacks on Oct. 4, 2009, slashing 42-year-old Kimberly Cates to death and seriously injuring her 11-year-old daughter, Jaimie, who survived the attack.

Twenty-one-year-old Gribble was taken to the New Hampshire State Prison in Concord shortly after he was convicted Friday. A jury rejected Gribble's insanity claim.

Gribble is being held in the prison's maximum-security special housing unit. Spader is serving life in prison in the same unit.

Officials say there is no chance they will see each other.

Officials tell WMUR-TV Gribble was given a physical health examination and will have a mental health assessment.

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