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Oct 7, 2009 5:25 pm US/Eastern

Psychologist: NH Boys Showed Signs Of Violence

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Paul Burton

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Click to enlarge 1 of 7: Dr. Eli Newberger
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Click to enlarge 2 of 7: 17-year-old Steven Spader is accused of driving the four to the house and cutting Kim Cates with a machete.
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Click to enlarge 3 of 7: 17-year-old Quinn Glover
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Click to enlarge 4 of 7: 19-year-old Christopher Gribble is accused of cutting Cates' head, torso, arms and legs with a knife.
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Click to enlarge 5 of 7: 18-year-old William Marks
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Dr. Eli Newberger is a pediatrician at Harvard Medical School. He says the heinous crime these four young men committed didn't just happen overnight, there were signs adults could've picked up to show their potential for violence.

"There are signs you can anticipate, depression symptom by boys and the formation of groups that have fascination with violence. We need to take boys more seriously and their failures more seriously," Dr. Eli Newberger said.

This is the second such tragedy in New Hampshire in not too long of time.

The random death of Kimberly Cates and vicious attack on her 11-year-old daughter, Jamie, draws a striking similarity to the 2001 stabbing deaths of Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop.

The married couple was butchered in their homes by two Vermont teens that randomly targeted their house to rob them of their ATM cards.

Dr. Newberger says teens that do these horrific crimes find pleasure in grievously harming other people. "In most of the situations like this, these boys are responding to a sense of being powerless before and taking pleasure if not delight in exerting the power that they have," Dr. Newberger said.

Dr. Newberger also wants parents to know the most important thing in the development in a boy's character is having someone positive to look up to. "Having at least one adult who is crazy about them always be there for them. We've neglected boys' development in this country and we are reaping the whirlwind now."

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