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By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, homicide
Friday, October 29, 2010 at 11:42 am
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​UPDATE: Quinn Glover says Steven Spader was "euphoric" after the murder of Kimberly Cates and the near-death attack on her daughter, and that everyone was laughing and joking in the car as they drove away from the scene. See update after the jump...

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Kimberly Cates was hacked to death as she lay sleeping in her home with her daughter
​When we last wrote about Steven Spader, he was involved in one of the most gruesome and asinine crimes we'd ever encountered. The 18-year-old Spader -- along with friends William Marks, Christopher Gribble and Quinn Glover -- were plotting to rob and kill someone.

It didn't really matter who that someone was. They'd decided to kill whoever they encountered before they even chose whose house they would rob. Unfortunately for Kimberly Cates and her 11-year-old daughter Jaimie, their house was solely chosen for its seclusion in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire.

As we wrote back in January:

According to Gribble, Kimberly woke up. Spader attacked her with a machete. Gribble stabbed young Jaimie in the face and chest, trying to to knife her through the heart. He chucked her against a door, presuming she was dead. The girl would later tell police she faked death until the men left.

Kimberly died from machete wounds to the head, torso, arms and legs. But Jaimie survived after two weeks in the hospital. The criminal geniuses were caught because they bragged about the murder to friends. Apparently they're the kind of guys who think killing a woman and stabbing an 11-year-old is an act worthy of envy.

According to police documents released today, Gribble, who says he's long wanted to murder someone, told detectives his only regret is that he didn't kill the girl.

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Jaimie Cates played dead until her attackers left, even though she'd been savagedly attacked with a machete
​William Marks and Quinn Glover have already pleaded guilty to being at the scene but not taking part in Kimberly's murder. Autumn Savoy has pleaded guilty to hiding evidence and providing a false alibi. And while the aptly named Gribble won't go to trial until next year, Steven Spader trial began Monday, where he faces the possibility of life without parole.

Prosecutors say Spader brought a machete to the home invasion robbery. At the time, Jamie and Kimberly were sleeping in the same bed while her husband, David Cates, was on a business trip to Baltimore.

Jaimie awoke to hear mother's screams. Kimberly tried to protect her daughter, but she was essentially hacked to death. A coroner's report says she suffered more than 30 wounds, including having her throat slit. Jaimie would fare only slightly better.

Polcie says Spader and Gribble hammered away at her with a machete. One blow to her face was issued so forcefully that it broke her jaw. Another to the back of her head left an imprint on her skull. The two dickheads severed away pieces of her foot, stabbed her on both sides of her heart, and left a deep gash on her face just above her throat.

But the little girl outsmarted her shitbag attackers. She played dead until they were gone, then stumbled to the kitchen to call police.

Milford police Sergeant Kevin Furlong arrived at home, where he saw Jaimie lying on the floor through a window, covered in blood. He broke down the door to find part of her foot missing and other parts of her body nearly hacked off. She was trying to scream, but nothing was coming out of her mouth.

Not only was Jaimie smarter than her attackers; she was also tougher. She would live to tell police of her story and testify at their trials.

Contrast this with the behavior of Spader and Gribble. After the attack, as New Hampshire was buzzing about the horrific assault on mother and daughter, police say the two morons bragged of their roles to friends and actually laughed about what they had done.

Their robbery managed to net just $130 from jewelry sold at a pawnshop. After reading about the attack on a newspaper website, prosecutors say Spader dogged Gribble by saying, "At least I killed my bitch."

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Quinn Glover testified that Spader fantasized about killing and eating people
​UPDATE: Quinn Glover says Steven Spader was euphoric after killing Kimberly Cates.

"He was euphoric, excited," Glover testified yesterday, according to the Boston Globe. "He seemed like he had just gotten off a roller coaster, an adrenaline rush... He said that he felt really good and said that he saw the woman reaching over to something, toward a light on the nightstand, and just kept hacking. He joked how she woke up to being hacked to death by a machete."

Glover, who was with accused killers Spader and Gribble that night, has agreed to testify against the punks in exchange for leniency in his own sentence. He pleaded guilty to burglary, robbery and conspiracy to burglary in exchange for a 20-40 year sentence. And his testimony yesterday was downright chilling.

He says Spader and Gribble went into the master bedroom and began hacking mother and daughter to death. "I heard screams and cries. I heard ...'Jaimie, run. Please don't do it. No, please, no.' "

Glover claims he didn't enter the bedroom at first, moving down the hall and covering his ears. 

"I didn't want to believe what was happening."

When he later looked, he saw Kimberly in the room near death, moaning and moving slightly. That's when Gribble finished her off by slitting her throat. When it was all over, they all joked and laughed as they drove away from the scene.

Glover says their murderous fantasies began when they formed a club, known as the Disciples of Destruction. It was supposedly modeled after the Sons of Anarchy TV show, which is about a California biker gang. But instead of being drug dealers and gun runners, these pussies wanted to be killers who masqueraded as burglars.

Spader was obsessed with murderers like Charles Manson and the Zodiac Killer, Glover says. "He spoke about breaking into houses. And then he spoke generally, fantasizing about violence, murders, killing people, roasting people, eating people, putting heads on stakes and making scenes for news crews."

In other words, he was an attention-seeking shitbag who thought murder was the only way a loser could become famous. After he was caught, Spader even wrote a poem in jail, lamenting that he was such a stiff, he even failed at becoming a decent serial killer.

Another toe is gone.

How did we go wrong?
We had the perfect plan.
Machetes in our hand.
We went out in the house.
Turned the power off.
Quiet as a mouse.
We went up in the house.
We went up in the room.
Mommy is it you?
Your mommy isn't here.
I slit her throat from ear to ear.
Now we're all in jail.
Now we all have no bail.
Friends turning over friends.
And this is how the story ends.

SEE UPDATE: Steven Spader Gets Life for Machete Attack on Kimberly & Jaimie Cates.

See our previous stories: Christopher Gribble Regrets Not Killing 11-Year-Old Girl in Home Invasion.

Also see Christopher Gribble: This Guy's Gotta Die.

Tags: New Hampshire, Rotten Little Bastards

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