Case Facts:
• Suspect was outside home covered in blood when police arrived
• Bloody footprints were found along with blood on the ceiling.
• Showed no remorse for killing his brother slight remorse for killing his father
• Killed his father when he shot him three times.
• Suspect called the police and told them he just killed his brother and father.
• Previous violent tendencies
• Planned the killing of his family for aprox. Eight months
• Stabbed his brother aprox 30 times with the machete after he shot him and cut him with a knife.
• Father is a recovering drug addict
• Suspect says father beat him
• Suspect says father shot a gun outside the house while talking about zombies before a fight between the two occurred, which led to the murders
• Suspect stepbrother says he was never sane.
• Suspect confessed to murders
• Blames his brothers condition on his father’s addiction and his mother leaving them
• Suspect stated he hates his brother
• Father’s drug problem is well documented
• Father doomsday prepper and trained suspect for zombie apocalypse
In Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, in Kootenai County, fourteen year old Eldon G. Samuel III, killed his father, Eldon G. Samual Jr., and his brother, Johnathan Samuel, who had Down
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When looking at the many theories of criminology, there are a few that he could fall under. However, because of all the evidence presented in this case, it seems that everything he learned about being violent, he learned from his father. Social Learning Theory suggests that humans learn social conduct through observational learning, where the individuals learn social norms through watching a model and replicating that models behavior. In this case, Samual, our suspect, watched his father, be okay with violence in the house, be abusive to the boys, and be high all the time. Everything he taught the boys Samual was always very attentive to his role