McCroskey Pleads Guilty -Four Life Sentences

Published 3:37 pm Monday, September 20, 2010

PRINCE EDWARD – Richard Samuel Alden McCroskey, III pled guilty Monday to two counts of capital murder and two counts of first degree murder and was given four life terms.

McCroskey had been charged in connection with four homicides last September in Farmville.

Four bodies were discovered at the 505 First Avenue home on Friday, September 18, 2009. The homicide victims were later identified as Debra Sue Kelley, 53, of Farmville; Mark Alan Niederbrock, 50, of Farmville; daughter Emma Niederbrock, 16, of Farmville, and Melanie Grace Wells, 18, of Inwood, West Virginia.

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(See Wednesday's edition of the Farmville Herald for more details.)