I previously wrote that you need to be prepared for any threat even if that threat comes from a kid. In recent case, two high school boys planned to break in, murder, and steal from a random house.

The leader talks of how he really wanted to keep and torture these people, to get banking information, before killing and then robbing them. They did break in and with machete and knife hacked to death Kimberly Cates, 42, and maimed of her then 11-year-old daughter, Jaimie.

My heart and prayers go out to the families of Kimberly and Jaimie. This seems like the stuff you should pull up a tub of popcorn to on a weekend date night not deal with in real life. What would you do if two boys forced their way into your house swinging machete and knife?!

I am sure this Mom and daughter never thought this could happen to them or what they would do if it did. Tragically the attackers had more planning and preparation then the victims and had the upper hand. This was a random attack on a random house. What if you were the random house? Would you be ready?

Ultimate Defense means to be prepared to handle anything threat at any time. It takes preparation and training to be prepared. If your attacker has more preparation then you, how will you make up that difference? We do fire drills why not prepare home invasion drills? The world is getting worse not better start now and then you won’t have to regret it later. Read the article below! (Full Story)

Teen says he tried to drop out of N.H. killing plot

By Brian MacQuarrie

Globe Staff / November 3, 2010

NASHUA — The alleged ringleader of the deadly Mont Vernon home invasion refused to cancel his plans to kill and rob the occupants of a home chosen randomly, despite a plea from one of the participants that they needed more time to prepare, a New Hampshire jury heard yesterday.

William Marks testified that he tried to back out of the 2009 plot, which he had been told would go forward on the day of the attack.

“I can’t, dude,’’ Marks, then 18, texted the defendant, Steven Spader, who is on trial in the murder of Kimberly Cates, 42, and the maiming of her then 11-year-old daughter, Jaimie.

Spader fired back via text: “Are you [expletive] kidding me? Billy, dude, if your not back here in twenty, we gonna have problems for real.’’

Although Marks had bought a knife in the morning, he testified, he tried in vain to persuade Spader to wait until the secluded home was empty.

“Run up when they go to church; they probably do,’’ Marks wrote Spader.

Spader, who allegedly spoke often of wanting to commit murder, was not deterred, Marks said. “He said that we were going to kill whoever was in the house,’’ the witness testified.

In the past, Marks said, Spader had spoken of using chloroform to disable his victims, extract credit-card information from them, and then torture and kill them.

“I was trying to put him off,’’ Marks said. But under the code of the Disciples of Destruction, a group of teenage rebels that Spader and Marks had formed, the witness said, “If you get called, you come. No questions asked.’’

On the short drive to Mont Vernon, Marks began echoing Spader’s grisly anticipation. As he held an ax in the back seat, Marks recalled, “I told them that I wanted to plant the ax in someone’s forehead.’’

When asked by prosecutor Jeffery Strelzin why he made such a statement, Marks replied, “I don’t know, just to say it."

At the time, Marks stood 5-feet-3 and weighed 97 pounds.

Once in Mont Vernon, they shifted their target to the Cates home because the original, nearby target seemed more difficult to rob.

Inside the home, Marks testified, he heard the anguished cries of mother and child as Spader and Christopher Gribble, then 19, attacked the pair as the victims lay in the same bed.

“It started: ‘Jaimie, is that you? Who’s there?’ ’’ said Marks, of Amherst, who testified in an orange prison jumpsuit.

At that point, he recalled, he was standing in the doorway when Spader began a two-handed assault with a machete, the blows of which sounded like those of a baseball bat. Gribble, he said, attacked with a knife from the opposite side.