"It's a case with no easy answers," said Terry Walters, David Brom's trial attorney.
Written By: Jeff Pieters
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David Brom's booking photo on Feb. 19, 1988. (Olmsted County Sheriff's Office photo)
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A long-ago eruption of teen violence in Rochester is as stomach-turning, divisive and puzzling today as it was on Feb. 18, 1988.
The 33 years since the Brom family murders have done little, if anything, to answer the looming question: Why? Why did David Brom, a 16-year-old high school sophomore, take an ax in the middle of the night and kill his parents, his 13-year-old sister and 11-year-old brother?
We might never know.