David Brom
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David Brom (born October 3, 1971) is an American mass murderer. He killed his parents, a brother and a sister with an axe when he was sixteen in February 1988 in Cascade Township, Minnesota near Rochester, Minnesota. A member of a Catholic family, he had a fight with his father over the songs he listened to, which possibly resulted in the deed. He attended Rochester Lourdes High School at the time.[1].
In 1988 he was originally going to be tried in Family Court and was sent to Texas for a psychiatric evaluation. In the summer of 1989 Brom returned to Olmsted County, Minnesota to be tried as an adult. He was sentenced to life in prison. He will not be eligible for parole until 2041. [2]
When their 1987 album, Escape From Noise, proved to be more successful than they expected, Negativland, a sound collage band, canceled the tour they were expected to do and released a fake press release stating the band would be placed in house arrest until investigations concluded as to whether the track "Christianity Is Stupid" was implicated in Brom's murders. The resulting media craze, stemming from journalists neglecting to fact-check, is lampooned in the title track of their 1989 album, Helter Stupid, whose insert also includes background information behind the band's prank.
Macabre's "David Brom Took an Axe," from their 1989 album, Gloom, is about the murders.
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- ^ "Boy, 16, Charged in Ax Murders of 4 in His Family in Minnesota" AP Story that ran in New York Times, Feb. 19, 1988
- ^ Life Term in Family Ax Slaying - New York Times
