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FARMVILLE -- A horrorcore rap artist provided Farmville police with the name of the suspect in four slayings soon after officers found the bodies in the home of a Longwood University professor, authorities confirmed today.
Andres Shrim, who performs under the name SickTanicK, contacted Farmville police Friday and told an investigator he had reason to believe that Richard Samuel Alden McCroskey III could be responsible for killings at the home at 505 First Ave, authorities said.
Shrim, owner of Serial Killin Records in New Mexico, told the investigator he had spoken with a friend of McCroskey and that the suspect told the friend that he had killed, according to authorities and a posting by Shrim on MySpace.
Shrim also knew McCroskey, who had built a Web site to promote Shrim’s music.
Shrim told the investigator they could find a picture of McCroskey on MySpace, officials said.
Authorities soon circulated a picture of the suspect and his description. He was captured the next day at Richmond International Airport.
McCroskey, a 20-year-old from California who rapped about murder and other violent acts, is charged with killing church pastor Mark Alan Niederbrock. Authorities say more homicide charges will come.
Found dead in the Farmville house were Niederbrock, 50; his wife, Longwood professor Debra S. Kelley; their daughter Emma, 16; and 18-year-old Melanie Wells of Inwood, W.Va.
Kelley was separated from her husband and living in the home with Emma.
All four victims were bludgeoned to death. Authorities have not provided more details about how they died or when.
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