Episode Three | Kimberly and Jaimie Cates: Crime of a New England Kind, Mont Vernon, New Hampshire

The Cates family moved to Mont Vernon to experience life in a small town. Mont Vernon, New Hampshire is that small town in the Southern part of the state. A picture perfect town. It was a community of about 2,400 people as of the 2010 census. It was safe, rural, a picture perfect town with dirt roads, and covers only 16.7 square miles. The kind of town where you often hear people say they, “never locked their doors.” It is a beautiful place with lots of room in between houses. If you wanted privacy, this was a very good place to find it.

The impact of the Cates case cannot be understated. It shook the community to its core, injected fear into everyone. The effects were felt for miles. I was long gone from that small New Hampshire town, but my heart was right there when I heard that a Mont Vernon family was met with pure evil on that night.

Photos posted in the Instagram Gallery

Photos: Jaimie Cates, Jaimie and David Cates, Kim Cates, The General Store, The Cates' home at 4 Trow Rd, quaint small town Mont Vernon with 2,500 people

Sources

Unsealed Cates affidavit from January 5, 2010, Milford District Court

https://mylifeofcrime.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/catesaffidavit.pdf

Kim Cates Memorial Fund http://www.kimcatesfund.org

Kim Cates biography

http://www.kimcatesfund.org/bio.htm

4 Trow Rd, Mont Vernon https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/4-Trow-Rd_Mont-Vernon_NH_03057_M32518-22181

WMUR YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/wmur/search?query=mont%20vernon

WMUR - Timeline

https://www.wmur.com/article/timeline-mont-vernon-murder-case/5131770

Ten Years after the Cates home invasion

https://www.wmur.com/article/10-years-after-violent-attack-jaimie-cates-living-for-every-day/29371059#

The Cates Family Five years after Cates home invasion

https://www.wmur.com/article/nearly-5-years-later-cates-family-reflects-on-how-far-they-ve-come/5193094

WMUR - Mont Vernon Case

https://www.wmur.com/article/mont-vernon-murder-case-background/5165120

Jaimie Cates played dead to survive

https://www.wmur.com/article/court-documents-girl-feigned-death-to-stop-attack/5160917#

Steven Spader https://boston.cbslocal.com/tag/steven-spader

https://www.wmur.com/article/new-documents-reveal-details-of-spader-s-life/5183455

Christopher Gribble

https://www.wmur.com/article/christopher-gribble/5167383

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336239/Christopher-Gribble-admits-killing-Kimberly-Cates-stabbing-child.html

The Kimberly Cates case http://www.teenkillers.org/index.php/memorials/hampshire-victims/kimberly-cates

San Diego Union Tribune

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-nh-jurors-hear-graphic-details-in-murder-trial-2010oct26-story.html

ABC News - Jaimie attends sentencing

https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-involved-brutal-knife-machete-attack-convicted-murder/story?id=13220487

Jurors hear details of child victim’s wounds in Mont Vernon murder trial

https://www.fosters.com/article/20101026/NEWS0201/101029718

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Vernon_Murder

Killer students photos appear in school yearbook

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/yearbook-photos-of-accused-killers-anger-victims-husband-nh-school-officials-apologize

NBC News - Killer regrets girl’s survival

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34705825/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/suspect-machete-attack-regrets-girls-survival/#.X5ChONBJHa8

CBS News - Witness found dead

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/witness-to-kimberly-cates-home-invasion-murder-found-dead/

National Organization of Victims of Juvenile Murderers

http://www.teenkillers.org/index.php/memorials/hampshire-victims/kimberly-cates

Home schooled Gribble

https://hsinvisiblechildren.org/when-homeschoolers-turn-violent/christopher-gribble/

Gribble wanted to tourture his mother

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nh-home-invasion-suspect-i-dreamed-of-killing-mom/#:~:text=He%20told%20jurors%20he%20was,Vernon%20home%20in%20October%202009.

William Marks

http://archive.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2009/10/07/father_of_teen_detained_after_slaying_expresses_heartache/

Skinhead machete attack

https://abcnews.go.com/US/cops-make-sense-deadly-skinhead-machete-attack/story?id=8778093