David Brom

David Brom
Born	October 3, 1971 (1971-10-03) (age 40) Cascade Township, Minnesota, USA
Conviction(s)	Multiple murders
Penalty	Life imprisonment
Status	Incarcerated

David Brom (born October 3, 1971) is an American murderer. He killed his parents, brother and sister with an axe in February 1988 near Rochester, Minnesota.

Crimes

16-year-old Brom had a fight with his father over the music he listened to immediately before the murders.

Negativland prank

When their 1987 album, Escape From Noise, proved to be more successful than they expected, Negativland, a sound collage band, canceled the tour they were expected to do and released a fake press release stating the band would be placed in house arrest until investigations concluded as to whether the track "Christianity Is Stupid" was implicated in Brom's murders. The resulting media craze, stemming from journalists neglecting to fact-check, is lampooned in the title track of their 1989 album, Helter Stupid, whose insert also includes background information behind the band's prank.

In Popular Culture

American Death Metal band Macabre released a song titled "David Brom Took an Axe" on their 1989 album Gloom based on the David Brom murders.

References

External links

• MN Department of Corrections Offender Locator

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Name	Brom, David
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Date of birth	October 3, 1971
Place of birth	Cascade Township, Minnesota, USA
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