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==Biography== Price committed his first murder at the age of 13 in Warwick, Rhode Island on the night of July 27, 1987. Price broke into a home that was only two houses away from his own whereupon he took a knife from the kitchen and stabbed 27 year old Rebecca Spencer 58 times, killing her. A little over two years later Price was a 15 year old freshman in high school when he murdered three other neighbors on September 1, 1989. Price, high on marijuana and LSD, stabbed 39 year old Joan Heaton 57 times, her 10-year-old daughter Jennifer 62 times, and crushed the skull of Heaton's 8-year-old daughter Melissa, and inflicted 30 stab wounds. The stabbings were so brutal that the handles broke off the knives he used, with the blades staying inside the bodies of the victims. At the time, the brutality of the murders was mostly unknown due to Price's sealed records. According to law-enforcement officials, Price had no remorse when confessing to the crimes, and as for the motive, Price himself believes exposure to [[racism]] by whites as a young child was a factor in the murders, citing the first time he wanted someone to die being when as a child a group of white adults shouted racial slurs at him and tried to run him over with their car. Price calmly confessed to his crimes after he was discovered. He was arrested a month before his 16th birthday and was tried and convicted as a minor. By law, this meant that he would be released and his criminal records sealed as soon as he turned 21, and Price bragged that he would "make history" when he was released. During his incarceration, Price has been charged with a number of additional crimes, including criminal contempt for refusing a psychological evaluation, extortion for threatening a corrections officer, assault, and violation of probation for fights while in prison. An officer from the Rhode Island Department of Corrections said Price has been booked twice for fighting since leaving the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston. Price was denied parole in March 2009 and his release date was set for May 2020. In 2004 he was transferred from Rhode Island to Florida to serve his time due to his violent tendencies. In Florida on July 29, 2009, Craig was involved in a prison fight with another inmate. While trying to break up the fight, one of the correctional officers was stabbed in the finger by a handmade shiv in Price's possession. In the wake of the prison fight, Price has been transferred to another facility. On April 4, 2017, Price was accused of stabbing fellow inmate Joshua Davis at the Suwannee Correctional Institution in Live Oak, Florida, with a 5" homemade knife. On January 18, 2019, he was sentenced to 25 years for that crime. [[Category:Modern Villains]] [[Category:Living Villains]] [[Category:Male]] [[Category:Imprisoned]] [[Category:Serial Killer]] [[Category:Murderer]] [[Category:Thugs]] [[Category:Criminals]] [[Category:Sadists]] [[Category:Brutes]] [[Category:Homicidal]] [[Category:Barbarians]] [[Category:Destroyer of Innocence]] [[Category:Wrathful]] [[Category:Misogynists]] [[Category:Misanthropes]] [[Category:Thief]] [[Category:Young villains]] [[Category:Addicts]] [[Category:Mentally Ill]] [[Category:Extortionists]] [[Category:Addicts]] [[Category:Emotionless Villains]] [[Category:United States of America]]
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