Broomstick murders trial#

Broomstick murders trial#

She told jurors at the trial that Brom stopped her on the morning of February 18, 1988, as she was going to school, and convinced her to skip school with him. Immediately after the discovery, the police were concerned that David might be the victim of an abduction, but a friend of David's informed the police that David himself told her that he killed his family, and testified to the discussion in the subsequent trial. Police subsequently found a blood-stained axe in the basement that forensic tests indicated was used to kill all four victims.

All four individuals had sustained numerous gashes in the head and upper body. The police had been notified by the administration of David's school that students had reported hearing a 'rumor' that David had informed another student that he had killed his family that morning. Missing from the home were the two oldest sons, David (16) and Joe (18). In the early evening of February 18, 1988, Olmsted County sheriff's deputies discovered the bodies of Bernard (43), Paulette (42), Diane (13), and Richard (11) Brom in the Brom family home. He killed his parents, brother and sister with an axe in February 1988 in Rochester, Minnesota, after growing weary of the ways his father had brought him up. Parents’ dislike of music he listened to and the chores they made him doĭavid Francis Brom (born October 3, 1971) is an American mass murderer. Cascade Township, Minnesota, United States