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Bloggers have been blamed for lots of sins - but murder? On Feb. 3, 17-year-old Bryan Grove allegedly stabbed to death his girlfriend's mother in the bedroom of her suburban Denver home. Friends say that he and Tess Damm, 15, hated Linda Damm because of her drinking. Police found Damm's body, crammed into the trunk of a garaged car, when they arrested Bryan and Tess more than three weeks later, on Feb. 28, following an anonymous tip. Between the murder and the arrests, neighbors heard loud music from the house, saw teens coming and going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder, They Blogged | 3/9/2007 | See Source »

...wrong, every time we hold each others hands, I feel everything is so right..." The next evening, the night before the murder, this appeared: "Knives take my breath away... trapped inside my wake, despair? no, just another day of lifeless." Police say that when Bryan offered to murder Tess's mother, Tess didn't believe him - replying, "Whatever," according to the arrest affidavit. On Feb. 3, Bryan allegedly stabbed Linda Damm four times in the throat and once in the mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder, They Blogged | 3/9/2007 | See Source »

...blog goes dark until Feb. 11, when this is posted: "My baby... I miss you. I'm here without you and I hate it." At that time, Grove was visiting a tech school in Florida with his father. Tess replies, "Baby I miss you too... It's hard to do everyday things without crying..." At this point, according to police documents, Tess was alone in the house with her dead mother stuffed in a car in the garage. In a P.S. Tess says, "Your gonna be really happy when you come home! Your wifey cleaned up the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder, They Blogged | 3/9/2007 | See Source »

...Tess's MySpace home page gave hints of her dark moods before the murder. On Jan. 19 a post reads: "Current mood: discontent... Everyone knows the story of me and my mom... everyone knows how much I've tried to fix it my whole life... I could write a book about how confusing it is trying to please that woman... and trying to do whatever I can to get her to stop drinking." Lyrics are quoted: "Smile, I'ma blow a hole in your neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder, They Blogged | 3/9/2007 | See Source »

...Tower career with an elaborate Harvard athletic shield tattooed on his (rather large) bicep. Until he came to Harvard, he says, nothing had been ink-worthy. But some Harvardians shy away from marking themselves with the H-bomb, even if they don’t mind tattoos in general. Tess M. Ponce ’07 has three tattoos, but she sees Harvard tatts as slight overkill. “Isn’t the fucking degree enough?” she said, upon hearing that some students went for crimson ink. Hey, it beats having your estranged mother?...

Author: By Daniel B. Adler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: School Spirit: Just About Skin Deep | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

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