The Chilling Crimes Of The Scream Killers, The 16-Year-Olds Who Murdered Their High School Classmate

The Chilling Crimes Of The Scream Killers, The 16-Year-Olds Who Murdered Their High School Classmate

 

Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper were classmates at Pocatello High School in Idaho when they became fast friends, bonding over their shared love of film. The 16-year-old boys especially loved horror movies, and they soon became interested in creating their own films. On September 22, 2006, they brought a camera to school and began recording bits and pieces of their day — but their homemade movie quickly took a disturbing turn. "Our plan is supposed to happen tonight," Draper said directly to the camera. "If we can get our first kill done and started then we can keep going." The boys had formed a plot to become infamous serial killers along with a "death list" of potential victims. The first person on the list was their friend Cassie Jo Stoddart, who had invited Adamcik and Draper to hang out at her aunt and uncle's home, where she was housesitting that evening. "I'm sorry to Cassie's family," Draper told the camera, "but she had to be the one. She's perfect, so she's gotta die." Go inside the brutal murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart at the hands of the "Scream Killers": On the night of September 22, 2006, in Pocatello, Idaho, two aspiring serial killers viciously stabbed their 16-year-old classmate to death. Their motive for the killing was to imitate the cult horror movie Scream and to go down in history for their heinous crimes. Though Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik only committed one murder from their “death list,” the Scream Killers succeeded in their macabre goal. Cassie Jo Stoddart was brutally murdered by Draper and Adamcik, who then proceeded to record themselves celebrating what they had done. Draper and Adamcik had also filmed themselves plotting the murder, and they even captured footage of Stoddart at school just hours before they killed her. The video evidence helped authorities prove the teens’ guilt — and put them in prison for life. The Scream Killers Murder Cassie Jo Stoddart On the night of her murder, Cassie Jo Stoddart invited her boyfriend, Matt Beckham, to spend the evening at her aunt and uncle’s house with her. She also invited over Draper and Adamcik, and the four decided to watch a movie. The boys soon left, telling Stoddart and Beckham that they were going to go to the local movie theater instead. But before they did, one of them sneaked downstairs and unlocked the basement door. Rather than go to the movies, Draper and Adamcik changed into dark clothes and white masks and grabbed the knives they’d purchased from a pawn shop several weeks earlier. They then crept back into the house through the basement door and tried to lure Stoddart and Beckham downstairs by making loud noises. Their initial plan failed, as instead of heading to the basement to investigate, Beckham called his mom to ask if he could spend the night with Stoddart. She said no, but she told him that Stoddart could come to their house. Stoddart declined, as she didn’t want to let her aunt and uncle down, and Beckham’s mother picked him up at 10:30 p.m. Shortly after, Draper and Adamcik went upstairs and stabbed Cassie Jo Stoddart approximately 30 times. Twelve of the wounds proved to be fatal, striking the right ventricle of her heart, and she quickly bled out. The boys then fled the scene. They returned to their car around 11:30 p.m. and filmed their reactions to what they had just done. Brian Draper told the camera, “I stabbed her in the throat, and I saw her lifeless body. It just disappeared. Dude, I just killed Cassie!” Source https://allthatsinteresting.com/scream-killers