In this case, it appears they don't have any other viable defense he clearly is a disturbed young man. Gribble has testified that he's not like other people - admitting fantasies about killing his mother and others.
He says the murder in Mont Vernon lifted the weight of those dark urges. I actually did it and I feel better now. He had no remorse as he looked at his defenseless victims.
Chapman says, "Anyone capable of committing this crime is pathological, is detached, indifferent to human life. Rppe, an axe, trash bags: Evidence sits on a table in the courtroom during Gribble's trial on Thursday. He goes on to say that if he had realised she was still alive, he would have made sure she was dead.
In previous cross examination, he described to the jury how he and co-accused Stephen Spader picked the house at random and did not know the victims.
He said that unlike Spader, he was controlled and precise during the alleged killing and described stabbing the mother with a long knife several times from one side of the bed, while Spader allegedly swung a machete and stabbed uncontrollably from the other side.
According to ABC, following his arrest, he initially denied involvement in the attack, but then went on to give the detailed recording and according to police, would not shut up. Victim: Kimberly Cates was in bed with her daughter when four men broke into her Mont Vernon home and stabbed her to death with a knife and machete.
He describes in graphic detail how he stabbed both victims and how he cut Kimberly Cates' throat to ensure that she was dead.
He also tells how one blow to her arm with the machete exposed the bone. I thought I would at least puke afterward or something. The final recording Gribble made was when he accompanied police to show them where he had buried the the machete and knife used in the attacks. State Police Sgt. John Encarnacao said Gribble was chatty during the trip and would not shut up.
Crime scene: The house in Mont Vermont where Gribble and Spader allegedly targeted at random, murdering a Kimberley Cates and maiming her year-old daughter Jaimie. Gribble now faces convincing the jury that he was insane at the time of the attacks and has went into meticulous details about his state of mind at the time. When asked by prosecutor Jeffery Strelzin if he acted 'purposely' when he attacked Kimberly Cates, he replied: 'It's hard not be purposeful doing something like that, when you stick a knife in someone.
He also said watching Spader kill the mother was interesting: 'It was a curiosity, like, oh, that's what bones look like. Speaking in a level voice, Gribble testified that although Spader had allegedly repeatedly stabbed the victim, she was still alive and said she was making raspy noises throughout. In response, he said he took action by 'very carefully from the carotid artery, I cut. I had to adjust at one point because I got the angle wrong. I hit the spine, I remember that.
Survived: Jaimie Cates, 11, was stabbed multiple times but managed to call police for help when the men left. Speaking about what he felt like when they drove off he said: 'It felt like a huge weight had been taken off my shoulders,' and compared the experience to an orgasm but said he did not want to use that word to describe the sensation, but in another attempt said: 'Like, wow, OK, I actually did it and I feel better now.
He said problems started in when Chris was accused by another worshiper at their Mormon church of repeatedly touching his wife inappropriately. Chris was taken to counselors and put on prozac but a cadet leader from a military camp told him to get him more. Throughout the day the accused sat entertaining himself taking notes and rearranging files on the desk Skip to content.
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