Son Kills Mom & Dad

(Chicago, Illinois) A 17-year-old high school student, John Granat, has been accused of bludgeoning his parents to death after they threw out his marijuana. He faces two counts of murder.

Notably, before killing John Sr. and Maria Granat, John Jr. threatened to do so several times previously.

A few weeks ago, his parents found that he was growing weed at their suburban Chicago home, so they trashed the plants and threw them out. That's when John Jr. began telling friends he was going to kill them.

They say they pleaded with him not to, but they never went to the cops.

Meanwhile, the kid appears to have been a hapless murderer. After the bodies were discovered, John Jr. kept changing his story.

The cops pulled him over at 5 a.m. Sunday morning -- two hours before he called 911. In his car was a bottle of pool chlorine and $4,000 cash. Granat would later tell detectives he'd been out all night with friends, but none of the kids he named had seen him since 6 p.m. Saturday.

Besides the apparent marijuana use, John Jr. is also suspected to have taken steroids as part of a weightlifting regimen. Steroid rage would help explain the brutality of the murders.