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Rapper Who Posted Murder Lyrics Busted in 4 Killings

'I hate everybody,' says aspiring horrorcore singer 'Syko Sam'

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(Newser) – An aspiring California "horrorcore" rapper who posted songs about killing on his MySpace page is being held as a suspect in the murder of four people, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Richard Samuel Alden McCroskey III, 20, was arrested as he awaited a flight back home from Virginia, where the bodies were discovered in the home of a Farmville professor. The victims were believed to be the professor, her husband, their daughter, and a teenage friend.

McCroskey's relationship with the victims was unclear, but a MySpace message from the daughter said she was "looking forward" to McCroskey's visit, police said. McCroskey calls himself "Syko Sam" on his MySpace page. "I've killed many people and I kill them real slow. It's the best feeling, watching their last breath. Stabbing and Stabbing til there's nothing left," he sings in one of his songs. A friend who owns Serial Killin Records called McCroskey a "great kid."

Aspiring rapper Samuel McCroskey.
Aspiring rapper Samuel McCroskey.
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Robert_Dada
Sep 20, 09 12:32 PM CDT
Great. Now the media, politicians and 'polite' society will blame rap music for this much the same as when they blamed Rammstein and Marilyn Manson for Columbine. When will America wake up and own up to its failed parenting and failed education system? Reply
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radnip
Sep 20, 09 11:58 PM CDT
Was America trying NOT to fail its youth and trying to educate it instead? I must have missed something. I thought America was majoring in war and making the filthy rich richer. Those people can send their kids to ultra-private schools and to Europe for their education. I thought America was very good at what it wanted to do. I was hoping that it would want to do something else, such as actually have a modern society, but I think the jury's still out about the public will on that. Lots of that voting public is still catering to the rich at the same time they 'complain' about them.
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carbonated_turtle
Sep 21, 09 1:50 PM CDT
I'm not going to say you're wrong, Robert, but while I have nothing to back this up, I'd be willing to bet that artists who write lyrics about viciously dismembering people, or getting satisfaction from continually stabbing someone, are more likely to commit violent acts. Again, I don't want it to sound like I'm blaming the music, but people who write lyrics like this are probably a little messed up in the head.
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Spydiggity
Sep 21, 09 1:59 PM CDT
agree with turtle. and i think you can take it further. violent media doesn't make a person violent, but a person that is actually entertained by it, is probably at least a little twisted. The saw movies are a great example of this. they are just BAD movies. nothing redeeming about them. they aren't clever, or interesting, or well written, or well acted...but they are over the top violent and that's all they have going for them. what makes a person gain pleasure from watching a movie like that? probably the same thing that makes a person want to listen to rap like this.
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rajanKazhmin
Sep 21, 09 2:21 PM CDT
@Turtle: You are right, you have nothing to back that up. Your opinion is worthless.
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