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08-13-2002, 10:26 AM
Net romance ends in knifing, beating, fire
August 13, 2002
By Jim O'Hara and Jim Read
Staff writers
A nine-month Internet romance between two Central New York teenagers turned deadly over the weekend when the pair met for the first time at the girl's town of Fabius home, court papers said.
"I just snapped," Spencer Lee King, 17, of Palermo, Oswego County, told state police in a statement. He admits to stabbing and beating Nonie "Annie" Drummond, 14, to death and then setting her home at 825 Shackham Road ablaze to cover up the crime. Drummond's mother and grandfather were out of town for the weekend.
After the killing, King told police, he hitched a ride with two law enforcement officers back home. It's unclear what agency the officers were from.
King of Lot 10, Sundown Mobile Home Park, 38 Sundown Road, Palermo, said he grew angry because he found out as they talked throughout Saturday night and early Sunday that Drummond had lied to him about herself in their previous conversations, according to his statement. So he helped her cover her eyes with a bandanna about 5:30 a.m. Sunday, telling her, "I have a surprise for you," his statement said. He did not specify what angered him.
Then he tipped her head back and began stabbing Drummond in the throat with an 8- to 10-inch carving knife that he got from the kitchen and hid in the pocket of his cargo pants, his statement said. Drummond fell off a stool and began fighting, King told police in the statement, so King began stabbing her all over her body more times than he could count.
A brutal beating
King told police that when he realized Drummond was still alive, he beat her repeatedly with her TV set, a fan, a kitchen chair and a leg that had broken off the stool, according to his statement.
After cleaning himself, he tossed the smashed TV and a bloody towel in the bushes, discarded the leg of the stool in some weeds and threw the knife in a small pond, court papers said. He then found a bill in the house, which he lighted from the stove and used to set the house ablaze, according to his statement.
King told police that he had thrown a blue blanket over the body and set it ablaze with the flaming envelope.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1029230304179082.xml
August 13, 2002
By Jim O'Hara and Jim Read
Staff writers
A nine-month Internet romance between two Central New York teenagers turned deadly over the weekend when the pair met for the first time at the girl's town of Fabius home, court papers said.
"I just snapped," Spencer Lee King, 17, of Palermo, Oswego County, told state police in a statement. He admits to stabbing and beating Nonie "Annie" Drummond, 14, to death and then setting her home at 825 Shackham Road ablaze to cover up the crime. Drummond's mother and grandfather were out of town for the weekend.
After the killing, King told police, he hitched a ride with two law enforcement officers back home. It's unclear what agency the officers were from.
King of Lot 10, Sundown Mobile Home Park, 38 Sundown Road, Palermo, said he grew angry because he found out as they talked throughout Saturday night and early Sunday that Drummond had lied to him about herself in their previous conversations, according to his statement. So he helped her cover her eyes with a bandanna about 5:30 a.m. Sunday, telling her, "I have a surprise for you," his statement said. He did not specify what angered him.
Then he tipped her head back and began stabbing Drummond in the throat with an 8- to 10-inch carving knife that he got from the kitchen and hid in the pocket of his cargo pants, his statement said. Drummond fell off a stool and began fighting, King told police in the statement, so King began stabbing her all over her body more times than he could count.
A brutal beating
King told police that when he realized Drummond was still alive, he beat her repeatedly with her TV set, a fan, a kitchen chair and a leg that had broken off the stool, according to his statement.
After cleaning himself, he tossed the smashed TV and a bloody towel in the bushes, discarded the leg of the stool in some weeds and threw the knife in a small pond, court papers said. He then found a bill in the house, which he lighted from the stove and used to set the house ablaze, according to his statement.
King told police that he had thrown a blue blanket over the body and set it ablaze with the flaming envelope.
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