"No one awoke," Ennis said, adding that the victims had no defensive wounds. Mark Niederbrock arrived at the home three days later, Sept. 17 about 5 p.m., and McCroskey attacked him with the maul in a living room, Ennis said. McCroskey later moved Mark Niederbrock's and Wells’ bodies into Emma's room, and he attempted to clean up the bloody den, Ennis said. At some point, McCroskey used a digital camera to record a video of himself, according to Ennis. In the video, he indicated that he knew he had to pay for what he had done and contemplated suicide, Ennis said. A press release was issued to the public at the time of the murders. An e-mail was sent to Longwood University students. The following Monday, the Attorney General and Farmville County Police Department held a press conference where the bodies were identified. Mark Niederbrock was a pastor at a Presbyterian church in Hixburg in northern Appomattox County, and father of 16-year-old Emma Niederbrock. Niederbrock had been heading Walker's Presbyterian Church for the past six years. Born in Illinois, Niederbrock was an Eagle Scout and graduate of the University of Illinois. Before he entered the ministry he worked as a graphic designer. Niederbrock and his wife Debra Kelley had been divorced for about nine months. Debra S. Kelley was a 53-year-old associate professor of sociology and criminal justice studies at Longwood University. Emma Niederbrock was Mark Niederbrock's and Debra Kelley's 16-year-old daughter and a friend of Richard McCroskey, the convicted murderer. She had been home-schooled since middle school. Melanie Wells was the 18-year-old daughter of Thomas G. Wells Jr. and Kathleen Wells, of Inwood, West Virginia, and Emma Niederbrock's friend. Wells and her family moved to West Virginia from Louisville, Kentucky, just before Wells was to enter high school. Wells dropped out and was studying for her high school equivalency diploma. She attended Musselman High School. Wells had been staying with Emma Niederbrock and Emma's mother. Richard Samuel McCroskey (born December 26, 1988) had been a graphic designer and amateur horrorcore rapper and had been living with his father and 21-year-old sister in Castro Valley, California.