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Mark Niederbrock

Case from Farmville, VA dated Sep 15, 2009

Victim Details

Mark Niederbrock

Male

White / Caucasian

Farmville

VA

2009-09-15

50

Mark

Niederbrock

06/30/2026

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In September 2009, the quiet town of Farmville, Virginia, was rocked by a horrific crime that claimed the life of 50-year-old Mark Niederbrock, a local pastor. The tragedy unfolded at the home of his estranged wife, Dr. Debra Kelley, a professor at Longwood University. The couple, though separated, had come together to chaperone their 16-year-old daughter, Emma, and her friend, 18-year-old Melanie Wells, to a horrorcore music festival in Michigan. Accompanying them was a man Emma had met online, ...
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  • Farmville murders - Wikipedia
  • Officials: 4 in Va. town bludgeoned to death - NBC News
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