Okay, so I've been reading this thread for awhile now and finally signed up so I could give my two cents on the issue. I live in Farmville and follow this case daily and I think some of you are really on point with this and others are way off. Dangrsmind, I think you've gotten alot of interesting info on this issue and I thank you for the time you've invested, but I'm not sure this case goes as indepth as you've dug......it may very well though. Heroine, your last post where you quoted from another site are just a few of the rumors floating around about what happened. Claudicici, please understand that people aren't trying to personally attack you, but horrorcore is not "normal" to the rest of society. Also, please don't be so blinded to say that SKR didn't have anything to do with this, they may not have, but you can't rule it out at this point either.
As someone who listened to Brotha Lynch Hung, Esham, and the Gravediggas (those were considerd "horrorcore" rappers at the time) in the early 90's and have watched and enjoyed horror movies my entire life, I find this whole thing fascinating. I loved the crazy things they talked about (see this video for example)
YouTube - Brotha Lynch Hung - Return of da Baby Killa but I also knew that it was all talk and for entertainment much like a horror movie is. Now, I think these people (SKR and juggalos) live in this type of fantasy land where this is real to them. I think these people are outcast and they've found others that have the same sort of "problems" as them and it builds from there. I'm sure for the most part they are nice people, but just don't fit in with "normal" society so when they find people that are more excepting of painting your face (when it's not Halloween) and coloring your hair, they stick with them and can become influenced by them. That's what I think has happened in this case. Of course they say Sam was a normal good guy, to them he was, just as your friends seem normal to you. The difference is that you and your friends probably don't sit around a make music about the devil, killing, and raping. If you did, and then you went off and did it, someone would say they aided you in your crime somehow. Remember, Manson says he didn't have the blood on his hands, but he's still in jail for the crime isn't he? So when this is what you talk about this day in and day out, make videos about, and take pictures disrespecting peoples graves (btw, all those invloved in that should all be jailed or have their *advertiser censored* kicked by the families of the ones they disrespected) then you should expect people to react to you the way they do.
I will say that I think Sam came with every intent on killing someone, it may have been planned with Emma because of her "bad" relationship with her mother (I'm not saying this is the case) or it could have been something for the satanic church (not say it's this either.) My point is that Sam is CRAZY! No one in their right mind kills anyone, let alone four people and stays in the house with the bodies. I think the parents had some responsibility to themselves and their daughter to not allow some guy they didn't even know to come stay at their house, esp. with their 16 yr. old daughter, but that doesn't mean they should have died for that mistake. I think SKR has a responsibility to know they influence these kids whether they like it or not and they shouldn't be hanging out drinking and somking weed with KIDS. Did the music make Sam do it? I don't think so, but I think the lifestyle he lived made it seem that if you have a problem with someone or anger issues, then violence is okay. I hold the Farmville Police Dept. responsible of dumb police work. They had MANY run-ins with Sam (at the house, in the house, writing him a ticket when he got the car stuck, at the Sheetz while waiting for a cab, and when they pulled the cab over for speeding and he was out of the car smoking.....that wasn't their fault because it was in another county, but still.)
The fact of the matter is that crazy things happen all over the country on a daily bases, but this just so happened to go down in a small town, involved a "horrorcore rapper," a criminology teacher, a priest, and their daughter and her friend who were horrorcore fans........it has all the makes of a movie if you look at it from that stand point, so it's all just a little weird.