Horrorcore Artist Slays Fans

Syko Sam, Richard Alden Samuel McCroskey III myspace virginia killings — MySpace Photo

On Sept. 18, 2009, Longwood University professor Debra Kelley, 53, her husband, Presbyterian minister Mark Niederbrock, 50, their daughter, Emma Niederbrock, 16, and Emma's friend Melanie Wells, 18, were all found bludgeoned to death in the Niederbrock's Farmville, Va. home. Police charged horrorcore rapper Richard "Syko Sam" McCroskey, 20, shown here, with Mark's death and expect to charge him for the others.

Emma Niederbrock, 16, shown here in a MySpace photo, was remembered as a rebellious girl who dabbled in the occult and obsessed about macabre music but also listened to the Backstreet Boys and played soccer. Emma met her boyfriend, aspiring horrorcore rapper Richard "Syko Sam" McCroskey through the Internet. McCroskey is being held for murdering Emma, her parents and a friend.

Richard "Syko Sam" McCroskey

Friends and members at Walker's Presbyterian Church in Hixburg, Va. hug each other after a graveside service for Rev. Mark Niederbrock on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. Niederbrock was buried in front of his modest white church in Appomattox County nearly a we — AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch

Richard "Syko Sam" McCroskey

In this Sept. 12, 2009 photo released by Razakel are shown Emma Niederbrock, left, Melanie Wells, center, and Razakel, after a horrorcore festival in Southgate, Mich. Razakel's music brought an alleged killer and his victims together. Richard "Sam" McCros — AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch

Richard "Syko Sam" McCroskey

Friends and family of slain 18-year-old Melanie G. Wells quietly hug after a memorial service Friday, Sept. 25, 2009 outside Inwood, W.Va. Melanie Wells was one of the four victims in the recent Farmville, Va. deaths. (AP Photo/Journal Newspaper, Ron Agni — AP Photo/Journal Newspaper

Richard "Syko Sam" McCroskey

The mother of Rev. Mark Alan Niederbrock, Jan Somers Niederbrock, right, leaves a graveside service for her son at Walker's Presbyterian Church in Hixburg, Va. on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. Niederbrock was buried in front of his modest white church in Appo — AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch

Richard "Syko Sam" McCroskey

From left, Nancy Wood, of Powhatan, her daughters Caitlin, 18, and Kelly, 16, and their father Jaime Wood attend the funeral service for Debra S. Kelley at Farmville United Methodist Church in Farmville on Saturday, October 3, 2009. The family lived near — AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch

Richard "Syko Sam" McCroskey