steven spader was 18 at the time.oung daughter was severely injured in the attack by another young man who will stand trial next year. it was a home invasion so brutal the sense of security in a quiet new england community was deeply shattered. deborah feyerick tonight has the story with what officials called a thrill kill. >> reporter: the judge did not mince words, sentencing steven spader to life in prison with no parole for a horrific senseless murder that shocked a small new england town. >> i could go on for days and days and days about the depth of your depravity but it is sufficient to say that you belong in a cage. >> reporter: it happened october 2009 on a dirt road as the leaves were changing. a thrill kill, prosecutors called it, for 18-year-old high school dropout steve spader and three friends. christopher gribble, who allegedly wanted to kill to see what it felt like. prosecutors describe the teens as followers of the rap group insane clown posse and claimed their formed their own brotherhood, the disci

spader allegedly laid out the events of the grisly night himself in a hand-written note.rs say he called a bedtime story to impress fellow inmate chad landry. landry read it allowed in court. >> swinging the machete down on the mom. she screamed. then kind of gargled. then made some other weird ass noises. i told gribble to stab her just to be sure. he did. >> reporter: he refers to gribble, this man, chris, a co-defendant, who was 19 at the time. >> they were all covered in blood. >> reporter: spaders' two other accomplices cuts deals, testifying what they saw and heard as they stood outside the bedroom door. >> steve spader walked up to her and hit her in the head with the machete. >> i heard cries for help. begging, no, no. >> reporter: kimberly cates died in her bed. 11-year-old jamie, stabbed 15 times, fell near the sliding glass doors and lay still, pretending to be dead. >> she was on the floor tangled in the curtains. >> reporter: after the attackers left, jamie called to the kitchen and called 911. >> what is your emergency? >> hello? somebody robbed my -- house.

spader allegedly laid out the events of the grizzly night himself, in a handwritten note.bed time story to impress fellow inmate chad landry. landry read it aloud in court. >> swinging the machete down on the mom, she screamed, then kind of gargled, then made some other weird noises. i told gribl to stop her, just to be sure. he did. >> reporter:e refers to gribl, this man, chris, a co-defendant who was 19 at the time. >> they were all covered in blood. >> reporter: spader's two other accomplices cut deals testifying what they saw and heard as they stood outside the bedroom door. >> steve spader walked up to her and hit her in the head with the machete. >> i heard cries for help, begging, no, no. >> reporter: kimberly kates died in her bed. 11-year-old jamie stabbed 15 times fell near the sliding glass doors and lay still, pretending to be dead. >> she was on the floor, tangled in the curtains. >> reporter: after the attackers left, jamie crawled to the kitchen and called 911. >> what's your emergency? >> hello? somebody robbed my -- somebody robbed our house. >> reporter:

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but they sort of smacked at the law firm, zuckerman, spader, for essentially leaving him in the lurchhe said that he's spent $2 million and then talking with lawyers it was apparent to him that it could cost as much as a million more. he couldn't guarantee that he could pay it. they withdrew. and this went down somewhat recently after it became clear that he was going to have this hearing. but you also have the committee saying, okay, sure, but on multiple occasions we've also given congressman rangel advice on what he could do to pay for his legal fees, what's okay, what's not okay, and we've given him a lot of time to look at the evidence. so this pretty secretive committee took this rare move of hitting back at some of his claims that he needs more time and he's not being given a fair shot, drew. >> yeah. i mean, certainly he would have known that he was running out of money and couldn't pay his lawyers long before they quit on him and maybe gone to the legal defense route. they are using in his house his own words on the floor against him as evidence. right? >> this really struck