From the N&O’s account of the New Hill horror:
Four teenagers charged with Matthew Silliman’s death foretold his future using tarot cards, beat him on the head with a hammer, bound him with zip ties, and suffocated him with duct tape, according to search warrants unsealed late Wednesday.
Wake County sheriff’s investigators found Silliman’s body in a plastic bag on the bathroom floor of a mobile home in the New Hill community in southwestern Wake County on Dec. 2. The 18-year-old Eagle Scout was last seen at his Apex home Nov. 25. …
On Tuesday, a Wake County grand jury indicted Drew Logan Shaw, 16, Ryan Patrick Hare, 18, and Aadil Shahid Khan, 17, all of Apex, and Allegra Rose Dahlquist, 17, of Cary, on charges of murder in Silliman’s death. The teens were linked by friends and courtships, and through social networking Web sites. …
Suspects told Apex police that they attempted to use “medications commonly used for animals to plan the murder and read the deceased his fortune using tarot cards just prior to his death,” the search warrants stated.
Where would anyone, let alone adolescents, get such terrible ideas?
