was a month shy of his 18th birthday when he orchestrated the home invasion in Mont Vernon Oct. 4, 2009, in which Kimberly Cates was killed and her 11-year-old daughter, Jaime, was hacked and stabbed to near death. Their husband and father David Cates was on a business trip to Maryland at the time.Spader, who bragged about the attacks vocally and in letters from jail, through his lawyers Monday apologized to the Cates family in a statement David Cates found "insulting," according to prosecutor Jeffery Strelzin.
Savoy admitted helping convicted killers Steven Spader and Christopher Gribble dump bloody clothing in the Nashua River on Oct. 4, 2009 just hours after Kimberly Cates was hacked to death and 11-year-old Jaimie Cates was maimed at their Mont Vernon home. David Cates was traveling on business.
"I had the opportunity to do the right thing and I didn't," Savoy said, before being sentenced. He apologized to the Cates family, although no family members were in court to hear him. David Cates was travelling on business when his family was destroyed."I've lived the accounts of Kim's murder one excruciating blow after another," David Cates said before Gribble was sentenced March 25. "Through these accounts I have heard my wife's last breath, heard my daughter's screams, seen my daughter's perfect body mutilated."
Court officers handcuffed Gribble after the jury delivered the first guilty verdict. He did not show any emotion and later changed out of his civilian clothes and into an orange prison jumpsuit for his sentencing. David Cates held a tissue to his face as the jury delivered its verdict.
Date: Mar 25, 2011
Category: U.S.
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Jury finds Gribble was not insane during Mont Vernon, NH, murder
The jurys verdict of guilty unleashed a wave of emotion in the courtroom. David Cates, husband of the murder victim and father of Jaime, wept quietly with apparent relief. He later shared hugs with one of the prosecutors on the case, Jeffrey Strelzin.
"To the murderer in this courtroom, as I've said in the past, this verdict is not justice, but I can only hope that justice will find you soon" -- David Cates, husband of Kimberly Cates and father of Jaimie Cates
David Cates took the witness stand briefly to testify he was travelling on business for BAE Systems( BAESF.PK - news - people ), where he is an engineer, at the time of the attacks. He identified several jewelry boxes stolen from the home as having belonged