THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Witness testifies in
N.H. machete trial
By Lynne Tuohy
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NASHUA, N.H. A teenager accused of
hacking a New Hampshire mother to death
during a home invasion and severely injur
mg her young daughter wanted to break
into houses, kill their occupants and eat the
victims, a witness testified Thursday.
Steven Spader, 18, was obsessed with
killing people in the weeks before the grue
some attack that ended with the death of
Kimberly Cates in the hamlet of Mont
Vernon, according to the testimony of
Quinn Glover, who was at the scene.
Spader wanted to break into homes, kill
the occupants, stay overnight, roast and
eat the victims, and stage their bodies for
the media, Glover said. He talked at one
point about putting the heads of his victims
on stakes, he said.
Immediately after the attacks, Spader
was "euphoric, excited." Glover said.
"He seemed like he had just gotten off a
roller coaster," he said. "He came out with
the machete covered in blood and hair"
As Glover testified, Spader stared at him
with his fingers pressed in front of him
his standard pose during the four days of
the trial so far.
As the lawyers talked to the judge at the
bench at one point, Spader loudly cracked
his knuckles while staring at Glover, who
stared back.
Spader is charged with murder, attempt
ed murder and other felonies in the death
of Cates and the injuries to her now 12-
year-old daughter, Jaimie, who told police
she survived the attack by feigning death.
Glover has pleaded guilty to robbery,
burglary and conspiracy. He agreed to
cooperate with the state in exchange for a
20-year prison sentence.
Several hours before the attacks, Glover
said, Spader had sent him a text message
telling him they needed to complete the
goals of their brotherhood, the Disciples of
Destruction.
Indonesia death toll tops 400
By Kristen Gelineau
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MENTAWAI ISLANDS, Indonesia
The fisherman was jolted awake by the
powerful earthquake and ran with his
screaming neighbors to high ground. He
said they watched as the sea first receded
and then came roaring back "like a big
wall" that swept away their entire village.
"Suddenly trees, houses and all things in
the village were sucked into the sea and
nothing was left," Joni Sageru recalled
Thursday in one of the first survivor
accounts of this week's tsunami that
slammed into islands off western
Indonesia.
The death toll rose to 370 as officials
found more bodies, although hundreds of
people remained missing. Harmensyah,
head of the West Sumatra provincial disas
ter management center, said rescue teams
"believe many, many of the bodies were
swept to sea."
Along with the 33 people killed by a vol
cano that erupted Tuesday more than 800
miles (1,300 kilometers) to the east in cen
tral Java, the number of dead from the twin
disasters has now topped 400. Mount
Merapi began rumbling again Thursday
after a lull that allowed mourners to hold a
mass burial for its victims. There were no
reports of new injuries or damage.
The catastrophes struck within 24 hours
in different parts of the seismically active
country, severely testing Indonesia's emer
gency response network.
Aid workers trickling into the remote
region found giant chunks of coral and
rocks in places where homes once stood.
Huge swaths of land were submerged.
Swollen corpses dotted roads and beaches.
In a rare bright spot, an 18-month-old
baby was found alive Wednesday in a
clump of trees on Pagai Selatan the
same island where the 30-year-old Sageru
lived. Relief coordinator Harmensyah said
a 10-year-old boy found the toddler whose
parents are both dead.
More than 100 survivors crowded a
makeshift medical center in the main town
of Sikakap on Pagai Utara one of the
Police: Abducted Mich.
girl's death was homicide
NEWPORT, Mich. Authorities believe
a man accused of sexually assaulting a 15-
year-old girl abducted the girl from her
home on the morning she was to testify
against him and killed her later that day
before killing himself.
Raymond R. Bush, 38, of Newport, who
had a tattoo of the girl's name on the back
of his neck, was scheduled to appear
Wednesday in 80th District Court, where
he was charged with two counts of third
degree criminal sexual conduct, authori
ties said.
Instead, they say he abducted Taylor E.
Manley from her father's home near Evart,
in a rural area of Michigan's northern
Lower Peninsula. State police issued an
Amber Alert for the girl, and their bodies
were found Wednesday evening in Bush's
minivan in a cemetery about 170 miles
southeast of where she disappeared.
- I'm devastated," said Ciare County
Prosecutor Michelle Ambrozaitis, whose
office was handling the sexual assault
case. "She was just a vibrant young
woman. She had a lot of spunk and a lot of
promise. It's senseless."
NATIO\
Glover said Spader and co-defendants
Christopher Gribble and Billy Marks origi
nally targeted the house next door to the
Cates home but ruled it out as too big just
minutes before the home invasion.
After they broke in, Glover said, the four
approached a closed bedroom door with
weapons out. He said Spader and Gribble
were in the lead, Spader with a machete,
Gribble with a knife. Glover said that when
the screams started, he turned around and
covered his ears. Prosecutor Peter
Hinckley asked him why.
"I walked away because I wanted to walk
away from the situation," Glover said. "I
didn't take anything that was said prior
seriously. That was my mistake."
Then the attack began in earnest, he
said.
"They were terrified. I heard cries for
help, begging, 'no, no,"' Glover testified.
"I heard screams and cries. I heard,
Jairnie, run! Please don't do it, — he said.
He said he did not see the attacks but
entered the room afterward. He said he
saw Jaimie crumpled on the floor, tangled
in the curtains covering a sliding glass
door. "I thought for sure she was dead"
Glover said.
Defense attorneys have asked questions
of other witnesses about a Samurai sword.
Glover said that he owns one. but that it
was under his mattress in his Amherst
home at the time of the attacks.
Glover said he had an open knife with
him at the house. At home, he said, he
would tuck it inside "the ripped back of my
teddy bear"
Marks has agreed to testify against
Spader and Gribble, whose trial is slated
for February. A fifth defendant, Autumn
Savoy, pleaded guilty to hindering the pros
ecution and conspiracy in exchange for a 5-
to 19-year sentence. He is also expected to
testify against Spader.
Marks has yet to enter a plea, but the
state did drop a first-degree murder
charge.
The death toll is rising after a tsunami in
Indonesia this week.
four main islands in the Mentawai chain
located between Sumatra and the Indian
Ocean.
Some still wept for lost loved ones as
they lay on straw mats or sat on the floor,
waiting for medics to treat injuries such as
cuts and broken limbs. Outside, some res
cuers wore face masks as they wrapped
corpses in black body bags.
Officials say a multimillion-dollar tsuna
mi warning system that uses buoys to
detect sudden changes in water levels
broke down a month ago because it was
not being properly maintained. The system
was installed after a monster 2004 quake
and tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a
dozen countries.
A German official at the project disputed
there was a breakdown, saying Monday's
7.7-magnitude quake's epicenter was too
close to the Mentawai islands for residents
to get the warning before the killer wave
hit.
"The early warning system worked very
well it can be verified," said Joern
Lauterjung, head of the German-Indonesia
Tsunami Early Warning Project for the
Potsdam-based GeoForschungs Zentrum.
He added that only one sensor of 300 had
not been working and said that had no
effect on the system's operation.
The deaths were being investigated as a
possible murder-suicide, said State Police
Detective Sgt. George D. Pratt in Reed
City, near where Taylor disappeared.
Bush and Taylor both died from .22-cal
iber gunshot wounds to the head, and
Taylor also was shot in the chest, police
said.
Bush's death was ruled a suicide, while
Taylor's was a homicide, the Wayne County
medical examiner's office said.
Bush's ex-girlfriend told investigators he
called her late Wednesday morning and
said he fatally shot Taylor and planned to
kill himself, Pratt said. Bush later stopped
at the ex-girlfriend's home in Newport,
where she saw a young woman's body in
the van, Pratt said. The woman called
police after getting the first call and after
seeing Bush.
An arrest warrant was issued after Bush
failed to appear in court, Ciare County
Sheriff John Wilson said.
State police issued the alert on
Wednesday morning, saying she had been
kidnapped from the Reed City area and
Bush was a suspect.
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