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Posted by: Irish Wampanoag

I am a big crime history buff!!!
Massachusetts has had it's share of high profile crimes such as the Brinks Job, Boston Strangler and Carroll Stewart Murder. I love to hear old stories of yesteryear. Here are some Massachusetts Crimes I remember.

Daniel La Plant------La Plant was convicted of a triple murder that happened in Townsend, Ma in 1987. He raped and executed a pregnant mother and drowned her two daughters age 5 and 7. The husband / father comes home to find his family butchered. Convicted life it prison!

Henry Meinholtz----Mienholtz was a church deacon and former selectman who was convicted in 1991 for raping and suffocating a neighbor 14 yr old Melissa Benoit. Meinholtz buried her body in the basement of his house while he joined in her missing person search as well as comforting the girls parents. Convicted life in prison!

Edward O'Brien-----O'Brien 15 was accused of killing his neighbor Janet Downing in 1995 stabbing her 98 times. He claimed he was attacked behind the Somerville Police Department when asked about his cuts on his hands. Convicted life in prison!

If anyone has any stories they remember from the past I would love to hear them


Posted by: Delta784

Quote:
Originally Posted by Irish Wampanoag
Daniel La Plant------La Plant was convicted of a triple murder that happened in Townsend, Ma in 1987. He raped and executed a pregnant mother and drowned her two daughters age 5 and 7. The husband / father comes home to find his family butchered. Convicted life it prison!
Trivia about that case.....LaPlant was captured by a Registry of Motor Vehicles cop, who found him hiding in a dumpster. Possibly the best arrest ever made by that now-defunct agency.


Posted by: bbelichick

Wednesday, September 26, 2001

Logan security chief defends qualifications
Lawless calls criticism unfair, politically bent
By Kevin Cullen
The Boston (MA) Globe


In the 13 years he worked as a state trooper, Joseph M. Lawless said, he
arrested killers at gunpoint, tracked down a teenager who murdered a
woman and her two children, raced into a burning building to save
elderly residents, and devised an executive protection program for
then-Governor William F. Weld.

But after the hijackers who brought down the World Trade Center towers
strolled onto their planes with boxcutters unimpeded at Logan Airport,
Lawless's law enforcement career and the qualifications for his job as
the head of airport security have been reduced by some to this: He was
Weld's chauffeur.

In the rush to find someone to blame for what happened Sept. 11, fingers
have been pointed at Lawless - some unfairly, he says, others for
political point-scoring.

''I feel terrible about what happened, but looking back, from what I
know this could have happened at any airport, and I think we've been
more proactive on security than most other airports,'' said Lawless, the
director of security at the Massachusetts Port Authority said yesterday
in his first face-to-face interview in the wake of the suicide
hijackings.

Since Sept. 11, Lawless has become the focus of intense scrutiny and
some bitter criticism, blamed for allowing security at Logan to become
so lax that terrorists could walk onto American Airlines Flight 11 and
United Air Lines Flight 175 with weapons unchallenged.

But Lawless said the columnists and editorial writers who have belittled
him and the Massport director, Virginia Buckingham, have used misleading
statements and innuendo, sometimes holding them accountable for security
measures that are outside their purview.

For example, despite some continued speculation that the hijackers had
inside help at the airport, using ground staff to smuggle weapons onto
planes, the evidence uncovered so far suggests that the hijackers simply
walked through security checkpoints - areas that are the responsibility
not of Lawless and Massport, but of the Federal Aviation Administration
and the airlines.

''We are being blamed for things over which we have no control,''
Lawless said. In June, Lawless said, he asked the FAA and the airlines
to join a program in which undercover State Police would test the
security checkpoints run by the FAA and airlines. The offer was
declined, he said.

Lawless acknowledged that Massport's reputation as a haven for political
cronies plays a role in its place as a lightning rod for criticism. But
he said he does not consider himself a political appointee, even though
he was appointed in 1993 by Stephen P. Tocco, a former Massport director
and Weld's former chief of staff.

''Tocco approached me because he was impressed by the professionalism of
the executive protection program I created for the governor,'' Lawless
said.

Lawless said he did not volunteer to head Weld's personal protection
team. He said the State Police chief at the time, Colonel Charles
Henderson, asked him to do it. Lawless said he had met Weld during the
gubernatorial campaign of 1990 in the course of lobbying work by the
State Police union. He said he has never made a political donation to
Weld.

Asked whether Weld was a friend, Lawless said: ''I would characterize
him not as a friend, but as a professional acquaintance. We didn't stay
in contact. We didn't have a relationship before he was governor, and we
haven't had one since.''

Lawless said he spent only about a third of his time actually driving
the governor, a task shared by several troopers. The rest of the time
was spent devising protection for the governor's public appearances,
planning Lawless said came in handy when an antiabortion activist lunged
at Weld in Hingham.

Robert Long, a retired State Police detective who was Lawless's
commanding officer in the Middlesex district attorney's office in the
1980s, said he has been disturbed by the characterizations of Lawless he
has seen in newspapers and heard on talk shows.

''Joe was a shining star in the DA's office,'' Long said. ''He worked on
big cases. He solved murders. He did all the witness protection for us.
He was a very good investigator.''

Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, who was first assistant Middlesex
district attorney in the 1980s, said Lawless was the lead investigator
who arrested 17-year-old Daniel LaPlante after the 1987 murder of a
pregnant Townsend woman and her two children.

''The LaPlante case was a complicated one, and Joe Lawless did a good
job on it,'' Reilly said. ''He was a good homicide investigator.''

But Lawless's critics say being a good homicide detective, or being a
brave, aggressive state trooper, does not necessarily qualify you to run
security at one of the nation's busiest airports.

Lawless, who holds a master's degree in education and has trained with
the FBI and Secret Service, says he believes that he is as qualified as
any of his peers nationwide and that Massport has improved security more
than many other airports.

He said he got the State Police to become the first law enforcement
agency in the United States to be accredited in airport and seaport
protection by an international training organization. He said he created
a review process for more strict control over who gets a badge that
gives them access to restricted areas. The number of those badges has
risen from about 10,000 to about 14,000 during his eight years at the
helm, Lawless said, but there are 28 million total passengers a year
compared with 22 million in 1993. He also created a background check
system for the thousands of construction workers who filter in and out
of Logan.

Lawless said nearly 300 Massport access badges are missing, about 2
percent. But FAA regulations allow for up to 5 percent of the badges to
be missing, he said, and there is no evidence the hijackers used the
badges to carry out their plot.

While some speculate Lawless and Buckingham will lose their jobs,
Lawless says he believes the review of Massport security ordered by
Acting Governor Jane Swift will vindicate him.

Lawless lost several friends and his mother's cousin in the hijackings.
Two good friends, Fred Maroney, his counterpart at the New York Port
Authority, and Tony Infante, chief inspector at John F. Kennedy
International Airport, died when the World Trade Towers collapsed. He
notes with irony that Maroney and Infante were much closer friends than
Weld ever was.

But Lawless is now and forever known as Weld's driver, not the friend
and colleague of Fred Maroney and Tony Infante.

Lawless says the rush to blame him and others at Massport, so soon after
a tragedy and before all the facts are known, is unique.

''This need to blame people, it's not happening in Newark, it's not
happening in Dulles, where the other planes were hijacked. It's only
happening here in Boston,'' he said. ''What does that say about
Boston?''


Posted by: kwflatbed

The one story that always jolts my memory was the Great Plymouth Mail Robbery.

1962 The Greatest Robbery in U.S. history (at the time) occurred in Plymouth when a half-dozen highwaymen robbed a U.S. Mail truck of more than $1.5 million.

I remember standing at the top of Great hill in Weymouth and watching the FBI tear apart one of the suspects houses.


Posted by: no$.10

Al DeSalvo (Boston Strangler), Sacco and Venzetti, and the original con "master"...Ponzi (as in "ponzi scheme")...Massachusetts' has its share of pages in the crime files.


Posted by: Delta784

Quote:
Originally Posted by bbelichick
Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, who was first assistant Middlesex district attorney in the 1980s, said Lawless was the lead investigator
who arrested 17-year-old Daniel LaPlante after the 1987 murder of a
pregnant Townsend woman and her two children.
Lawless may well have been the arresting officer of record, but it was definitely a RMV cop that physically took him into custody. You've never taken custody of someone, then turned them over to the cop who's taking the arrest?


Posted by: Delta784

REGISTRY INSPECTORS GIVEN AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE
Date: January 23, 1988 Page: 68 Section: METRO
Five Registry of Motor Vehicles inspectors yesterday received commendations for outstanding service in 1987.



The awards were made at the graduation of Registry Police at the Registry Police Academy at the Criminal Justice Training Center in Needham. The graduating class contained only Registry Police for the first time in 13 years. In past years, new examiners had trained with other law enforcement officers, but this year there were enough recruits to hold a Registry-only class, according to Kay Dziuba, a spokeswoman for the Registry.



The 32 new examiners in the class have been trained in weaponry, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, radar operation and traffic laws.



The Registry honored:



- Carloyn Kardosz, commended for helping rescue a mother and her three children from a fire in Lowell.



- Charles Nelson, cited for his work in finding Daniel J. LaPlante, suspected in the deaths of a mother and her two children in Townsend.



- William F. Murphy, recognized for going under cover for 15 months in a sting operation in Hyde Park, where he and other police set up a dummy towing and salvage business. The sting resulted in 106 indictments charging people with making fraudulent insurance claims for burned or stolen vehicles.



- Richard Poore and Daniel Raymond, recognized for helping save the life of a man who had suffered a cardiac arrest in the Registry's office on Nashua Street, Boston. The two men applied CPR to the man.


Posted by: bbelichick

Quote:
Originally Posted by Delta784

The 32 new examiners in the class have been trained in weaponry
So f*cking surreal, man. Massachusetts....


Posted by: bbelichick

Quote:
Originally Posted by Delta784
Lawless may well have been the arresting officer of record, but it was definitely a RMV cop that physically took him into custody. You've never taken custody of someone, then turned them over to the cop who's taking the arrest?
Well, they gave Lawless credit for the "arrest" but I wasn't there so I don't know for sure.

I think I read that Nelson turned him over to Lawless. Lawless handled the Homicide charge and Nelson filed the expired Inspection Sticker charge.


Posted by: Clouseau

32 new examiners in the class have been trained in weaponry.

It comes in handy with those airport sub guns....


Posted by: Irish Wampanoag

La Plant conviction would have been a death penalty if the judge who sentence him could have given him it. Now a major law firm has sued the DOC for frivolous claims and continues to defend the guy which has billed the state over 100,000 dollars.

If I am not mistaken La Plant was caught behind a warehouse at gun point?


Meinholtz is also suing the DOC because he fears for his safety. Bubba, Tyrone and Spike have used him as a f87k stick over the years. So now is in segregation.




Posted by: Delta784

Quote:
Originally Posted by Irish Wampanoag
If I am not mistaken La Plant was caught behind a warehouse at gun point?
IIRC, he was hiding either in or behind a dumpster. Appropriate enough for sub-human garbage.


Posted by: Delta784

Quote:
Originally Posted by bbelichick
I think I read that Nelson turned him over to Lawless.
Probably.

Quote:
Originally Posted by bbelichick
Lawless handled the Homicide charge and Nelson filed the expired Inspection Sticker charge.
Hey, Nelson made a great pinch. Even if he were a deputy sheriff.

Right after I got out of the Army, I was working hotel security in Boston, and I'd have to go to Dorchester Court on occasion. You could always tell when the Registry Police were hammering Blue Hill Avenue, the traffic docket was always 4X in length. They were good at what they did.


Posted by: THE RP

Dont forget our claim to fame with Whitey and that whole mess....Thats crime history.

On the up side it humbled the feds a little...


Posted by: bbelichick

I don't think too many of those guys were RMV. Logan seems to be mostly old school MSP.


Posted by: Irish Wampanoag

This case happened right next door when I lived in Roslindale.

Terry Patterson----In September 1993 Boston Police Detective John Mulligan was shot 5 times in the face execution style while sitting in his car working a private detail at Walgreens.

I remember several days later two female cousins were killed on Cummings Highway in Mattapan not more than one mile from the incident. It was believed to be related to the Mulligan shooting case.

Patterson is now appealing for a new trial based on the fingerprint controversy going on in Boston Police Fingerprint Unit.


Posted by: USMCTrooper

September 1630First recorded execution in Massachusetts: John Billington, who had arrived on the Mayflower, hanged at Plymouth for the murder of John Newcomen.


Posted by: Buford T

Charles Stewart and Ted Otsuki come to mind as good stories with local connections.


Posted by: no$.10

Ted Otsuki

?? I don't remember that one, help me out...Thanks


Posted by: SGT_GRUNT_USMC

Quote:
Originally Posted by no$.10
Ted Otsuki

?? I don't remember that one, help me out...Thanks
He murdered a Boston Police officer back in 1987.He's a POS inmate at MCI-Walpole now.

Here is the officer

http://www.odmp.org/officer.php?oid=12035


Posted by: Irish Wampanoag

Quote:
Originally Posted by SGT_GRUNT_USMC
He murdered a Boston Police officer back in 1987.He's a POS inmate at MCI-Walpole now.

Here is the officer

http://www.odmp.org/officer.php?oid=12035

I remember this one i think was his partner's name was Torres?? He got shot in the back bay alley area by a asian male! at that time cop shotting were real low. Boston had a 10 year span without a cop killing.


Posted by: USMCMP5811

http://Crimemagazine.com/brinks.htm



Full details about the infamouse Brinks robbery on Jan 17, 1950 on Prince St in Boston.


Posted by: HousingCop

That murder happened in front of Walgreens. Did you live next door in Stop & Shop?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Irish Wampanoag
This case happened right next door when I lived in Roslindale.


Terry Patterson----In September 1993 Boston Police Detective John Mulligan was shot 5 times in the face execution style while sitting in his car working a private detail at Walgreens.

I remember several days later two female cousins were killed on Cummings Highway in Mattapan not more than one mile from the incident. It was believed to be related to the Mulligan shooting case.

Patterson is now appealing for a new trial based on the fingerprint controversy going on in Boston Police Fingerprint Unit.



Posted by: Capt. Kirk

Always the wiseguy Housing Cop... LOL


Posted by: sdpdbeat122

Patrolman Walter A. Schroeder
Boston Police Department
Massachusetts
End of Watch: Thursday, September 24, 1970

Biographical Info
Age: 42
Tour of Duty: 19 years
Badge Number: Not available

Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Thursday, September 24, 1970
Weapon Used: Rifle; Machine gun
Suspect Info: Sentenced to life

Patrolman Schroeder was shot and killed while responding to a silent alarm at a bank at 0920 hours. The bank was being robbed by a gang of anti-Vietnam War activists. As he exited his cruiser and walked towards the bank a gang member who was across the street opened fire on him with a Thompson submachine gun, striking him in the back several times. Patrolman Schroeder was taken to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

The trigger man was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole, but has been denied parole each time. The other gang members were all sentenced to prison but are now mostly freed.

Patrolman Schroeder's brother, Detective John Schroeder, was shot and killed while working for the same agency on November 30, 1973.

Patrolman Schroeder had been with the agency for 19 years and was survived by his wife and nine children.

Related Line of Duty Deaths Detective John D. Schroeder
Boston Police Department, MA
EOW: Friday, November 30, 1973
Cause of Death: Gunfire

I think Walter had 5 kids. One of them is at least a Lt. with the Waltham police department. Some anti-war activists from Brandeis hooked up with a crazy alcoholic career criminal who had just gotten out of MCI Walpole and attempted robbing a bank in Brighton (I think on Harvard Avenue). If I remember correctly, Officer Schroeder was on the same block when the robbery was going down. One of the females involved was on the lam for 23 years (aprrehended in 1993). She was living out by Oregon State. I think she ended up serving 6 years in Framingham.


Posted by: sdpdbeat122

Don't forget Trooper Charbonnier who died heroically in a 1994 gun battle on with a convicted murderer on Route 3.


Posted by: Delta784

Quote:
Originally Posted by sdpdbeat122
I think Walter had 5 kids. One of them is at least a Lt. with the Waltham police department.
Claire Schroeder was a lieutenant on the Waltham PD, but is now retired. I had her as an academy instructor, I remember her telling us she never thought Katherine Ann Power would ever be captured. I'm glad she was wrong.

Her younger sister, Erin, who was a baby when her father was killed, is now with the Boston PD.

Quote:
Originally Posted by sdpdbeat122
Some anti-war activists from Brandeis hooked up with a crazy alcoholic career criminal who had just gotten out of MCI Walpole and attempted robbing a bank in Brighton (I think on Harvard Avenue).
The bank has changed names about a bazillion times, but it's circular-shaped, and there is a memorial plaque for Officer Schroeder outside.


Posted by: Mike0114

Quote:
Originally Posted by Delta784
The bank has changed names about a bazillion times, but it's circular-shaped, and there is a memorial plaque for Officer Schroeder outside.
I can't think of a circular bank (or any other kind of circular building) on Harvard Ave. There's a Peoples Savings Bank in Brighton center with a curved facade, it's on the corner of Wash/Market.


Posted by: KSB

The infamous Depositors Trust bank burglary in Medford on Memorial Day weekend 1980.


Posted by: Mongo

Ya and it was all done by fellow brothers.


Posted by: HousingCop

Mongo,
I don't consider coke snorting thieves my fellow brothers. I just consider them criminals.
I find it sad that you'd consider them brothers though. I thought you had more sense than that.

It actually is a very intricate case and a great read if you have read the books on the subject. Now if only that scumbag Clemente will write a second book........


Posted by: no$.10

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike0114
I can't think of a circular bank (or any other kind of circular building) on Harvard Ave. There's a Peoples Savings Bank in Brighton center with a curved facade, it's on the corner of Wash/Market.

The bank is on Western Ave. Near what used to be Star Market.


Posted by: O-302

Case-Study of US Domestic Terrorism
The United Freedom Front

In the early 1980s, a group known as the United Freedom Front was active in the north-eastern United States. When broken, the group appeared to be very much like a fringe European group, a tiny cell known of the sort known in France as a groupuscule. This provides a useful basis for a case-study, as the UFF represents one common type of terrorist group or movement, that is very distinct from other types that would also be generally known as "terrorist".

This has important implications for law-enforcement, as a counter-terrorist tactic designed for application in one case might be wildly unsuccessful if used against another type of movement. Imagine for example the very different tactics that might be required to deal with one of the following comparable types of organization active in the 1970s and 1980s:

Note the variables that decide the shape of a particular group (and the three above represent only a few of the possibilities):

1. Scale
-size and numbers

2. Theater of operations
-rural/urban
-active in the group's own country, or any international links/ alliances

3. Objectives
-nature of targeting - civilian or military; attitude to causing physical casualties

4. Audience
-nature of ideology and propaganda. Left and right; separatist, communal, nationalist? religious?
-do they seek and or receive public support? How does the group publicize its views and opinions?
-does the group have legal front organizations or ties with legitimate political parties? Does it have a supporting newspaper or radio station?
-Is there a wider basis of activist supporters who support and assist the overt military acts of the militants?
-does the group seek to recruit?

5. Official Connections
-pro or anti-government? Connected with security forces or intelligence in some clandestine fashion?
-state connections, either domestic or foreign.
-how does the group obtain its arms?

6. Goals
Also what are they trying to achieve, and how they define success or victory?

The United Freedom Front

With these considerations in mind, let us now look at the United Freedom Front. The group was formed in the early 1970s by Thomas Manning and Raymond Levasseur, two Vietnam veterans who were both in a Massachusetts prison at Walpole. Manning was convicted of robbery; Levasseur for dealing marijuana. On release, the two became active in a Maine prison reform organization. In 1974, the two formed a "Sam Melville/Jonathan Jackson group, a militant organization named after two black leaders in the prison struggle c 1970-1971. The group expanded very slowly, incorporating a select group of spouses and close friends. The respective wives of Manning and Levasseur joined in 1974. Jaan Laaman and Christopher King joined in 1980. Richard Williams joined in 1981, Barabra Curzi in 1982

By 1982, the group had a maximum of eight members, though the Levasseurs and Mannings both traveled with their several children The core members were all in their early thirties by the late 1970s:

Thomas Manning (born 1946) and his wife Carol Ann Manning (1956)
Jaan Laaman (194 and his wife Barbara Curzi-Laaman (194
Richard C Williams (194
Raymond Levasseur (1946) and his wife Patricia Gros (1955)
Christopher King (1951)
The group was active - albeit on a very low level - over much of the north-east, and over a nine year period (1975-1984) In all, the group was accused of nineteen bombings and attempted bombings; plus ten bank robberies which netted some $900,000 in cash to fund operations. A total of ten bombings and one attempted bombing occurred between December 1982 and September 1984. Banks robbed included targets in Maine, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, and Virginia. From 1976 to 1979, the "Sam Melville/ Jonathan Jackson group" undertook some eight bomb attacks. From 1982, the group took the name United Freedom Front, and intensified their campaign.

Their ideology can be described as generic New Left. Manning is quoted as saying that "We are revolutionary anti-imperialist freedom fighters". Richard Williams justified violence as "aggressive self-defense, that if you're attacked, you attack back". Levasseur asked, "Who are the real criminals? Those who oppose racist acts in South Africa or those who support government interests in South Africa?" Imperialist wars were another target of their rhetoric.

The UFF Campaign
They undertook the following attacks:

1975 - attempted murder of a Portland, Maine police officer after a bank robbery

April 1976 - bomb at Suffolk County Courthouse, MA.

December 1981 - murder of New Jersey state trooper.

February 1982 - attempted murder of two Massachusetts state police in North Attleboro.

Bombing attacks occurred on courthouses - eg Middlesex County in Lowell, MA; on corporate offices - Union Carbide in Needham MA and Tarrytown, NY;

-Mobil Oil in Wakefield and Waltham, MA., and Eastchester, NY.

-South African Airways procurement Office in Elmont, LI.

-two IBM corporation buildings in Harrison, NY

-Honeywell Corporation and Motorola in Queens, NY

and military facilities. eg Army Reserve Centers in Uniondale, LI and the Bronx; Naval Reserve Center in Queens, NY.

Investigation intensified in late 1981 with the murder of the Jersey trooper, and the increased awareness of domestic terrorism after the Nyack Brinks robbery. An interstate/ federal task force was established in 1983. In 1984, a crucial breakthrough occurred when investigators checked aliases used to register a car in Connecticut. This led to another use of the UFF name in Ohio, where five members were arrested in Cleveland in November 1984. Thomas and Carol Manning were seized in Norfolk, VA in April 1985. Explosives and automatic weapons were seized. (Note incidentally that both sites were on the fringe of the main area of operations in the north-east). For several years after that, the activists ("the Ohio Seven") were involved in repeated trials, including the murder of the New Jersey trooper; and a major bomb trial in Brooklyn, NY. The most dramatic trial occurred in 1987, when the group was acquitted of the draconian charge of seditious conspiracy - that is, an attempt or conspiracy to overthrow the US government. Sentences were very steep: Manning for example got life in the trooper murder, and 53 years for the New York city area bombings. Williams was acquitted in the murder.




Posted by: O-302

New Years Eve 1975 murders in Tewksbury:


Thirty years ago, on New Year's Eve 1975, four men left Room 115 at the Tewksbury Holiday Inn, got into an early-model Oldsmobile and headed toward the secluded residence of Dr. Hugh F. Mahoney and his family. Three of the four men were armed with .38-caliber guns, their pockets stuffed with ski masks and long shoelaces. Their intentions were clear: Once inside the house, they would use the laces to tie up the family and then order the doctor to open a hidden wall safe that they had been told contained over $10,000 in cash and jewelry.


At approximately 9 p.m. that same evening, Inspector Richard Landers and Detective Sgt. Paul Johnson were tending to normal business at Tewksbury police headquarters when Maureen Mahoney, the doctor's middle daughter, burst into the police station screaming, "Something horrible has happened."

Neither Landers nor Johnson could have known how right she was.

Within minutes, the detectives were drawing their guns as they entered the front door of the Mahoney home at 922 Whipple Road. As Landers passed through the door leading to the den, he discovered the grisly scene. Lying in close proximity to each other were the bodies of Mahoney, 60, his wife, Ruth, 48, and their 15-year-old son, John Patrick.

The brutal scene sparked one of the most intensive murder investigations in the history of the commonwealth and culminated six months later with the arrests of three men: Robert Smith, 26, Robert Wilson, 27, and Terrance Milan, 29, each of whom were subsequently convicted. The fourth man, Donald Wilson, 29, the driver of the getaway car, testified for the state in exchange for complete immunity.

(from the Lowell Sun)


Posted by: rg1283

This one has always stuck with me, I was 10 at the time, when I heard about it on Channel 5 News about the wife, then came the kids

SEGUIN IS INDICTED IN CHILDREN'S DEATHS
Boston Globe
June 18, 1992
Author: Patricia Nealon, Globe Staff
Estimated printed pages: 3

DEDHAM -- Kenneth G. Seguin, the software executive charged with the April bludgeoning death of his wife, was indicted yesterday in the murders of his two children, whose bodies were found in a Franklin pond three days after their mother's body was discovered floating in the Sudbury River. Seguin, 35, of Holliston, was indicted yesterday by a Norfolk County grand jury in the stabbing deaths of his son, Daniel, 7, and his daughter, Amy, 5. The children were last seen alive at a soccer game with their father the night they are believed to have been killed.
Seguin, who was indicted by a Middlesex County grand jury last week in the murder of his wife, Mary Ann, 34, now faces two additional murder charges in the deaths of his children.

Seguin pleaded not guilty last week in Middlesex Superior Court to the charge of murdering his wife and is being held without bail at Bridgewater State Hospital. He will be arraigned on the two additional murder charges today in Norfolk Superior Court.

The children's bodies were discovered in Norfolk County, prompting the separate set of indictments. Norfolk District Attorney William D. Delahunt said he would confer with Middlesex District Attorney Thomas F. Reilly about possibly consolidating the charges.

Since the discovery of the childrens' bodies on May 2, Seguin has been identified by authorities as the prime suspect. An investigative grand jury sitting in Norfolk County heard from nearly 60 witnesses before returning the two murder indictments involving the Seguin children.

"We're satisfied that the grand jury's work has been thorough, meticulous and exhaustive," Delahunt said. "At the same time, this is such a tragedy, anyone would have ambivalent emotions. Sadness that this ever occurred, and the same time satisfaction that justice is beginning to be done."

The murders of Mary Ann Seguin and her children are among 19 homicides blamed on domestic violence in Massachusetts this year. Though they apparently did not fall into the pattern of domestic murders, Delahunt said he had seen similar cases before, most notably the 1978 murders of a Cohasset family by its patriarch. Those killings prompted Delahunt's office to organize a specialized domestic violence.

"While the usual case involves escalating violence," Delahunt said, "we have had cases where a single incident led to the ultimate tragedy."

Police say that Mary Ann Seguin was bludgeoned to death in the Seguin family's home before her body was dumped in the Sudbury River in Southborough. It was discovered on April 29.

The two children were stabbed to death on April 28 at the Franklin pond where their bodies were found four days later, according to Delahunt.

Police found Kenneth Seguin wandering in the woods near Hopkinton State Park on April 29, about eight hours after his wife's body was discovered. He was bleeding from knife wounds to the wrist and neck that investigators have said were self-inflicted.

According to court records released last month, Seguin initially told police that two men had broken into his house, drugged his children and then struck his wife in the head with an ax.

Seguin told police that the intruders dumped his wife's body in an undisclosed spot before driving him to a waterfall in Natick where, he said, they slashed his wrist and neck. He was later driven to Hopkinton, according to the statement he gave police.

Court records indicated that the couple had been having marital problems and that Seguin had considered suicide several months before his wife and children were killed.

During a search of the home, police found a bottle of the antidepressant drug Prozac, which has been said to cause suicidal or violent behavior in a small number of cases. A US Food and Drug Administration panel, however, has said that no link between the drug and aberrant behavior has been proven.

Investigators have downplayed any link between the drug and the murders, saying that the prescription was more than a year old and only a few pills had been taken. Caption:
KENNETH G. SEGUIN / At Bridgewater State Hospital / GLOBE FILE PHOTO / THOMAS LANDERS


Posted by: rg1283

Kenneth Seguin got 2 consecutive life terms for the Murders and is now at MCI Walpole.


Posted by: Mongo

Quote:
Originally Posted by HousingCop
Mongo,
I don't consider coke snorting thieves my fellow brothers. I just consider them criminals.
I find it sad that you'd consider them brothers though. I thought you had more sense than that.

It actually is a very intricate case and a great read if you have read the books on the subject. Now if only that scumbag Clemente will write a second book........
I knew someone would chime in on that one.

I meant of course that they were on the job prior to that shit.

I think they are lower than the shit on the shit on the bottom of my shit.

However I am sorry for stating that they were fellow brothers regardless of BEFORE or AFTER.

Thanx for pointing out my error.

By the way, I love Johnny Cash,Ted Kennedy as a child,Jesus,and Pigs. (not neccasarily in that order}


Posted by: KSB

Richard Rosenthal hacked his wife to death with a butcher knife and impaled some of her organs on a stake in woods behind their Framingham home.

Mr. Rosenthal, a 40-year-old senior financial officer for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company in Boston, told the police that he had fought with his wife about burning a pasta dish.


Posted by: Irish Wampanoag

Quote:
Originally Posted by KSB
Richard Rosenthal hacked his wife to death with a butcher knife and impaled some of her organs on a stake in woods behind their Framingham home.

Mr. Rosenthal, a 40-year-old senior financial officer for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company in Boston, told the police that he had fought with his wife about burning a pasta dish.

Burnt Ziti if I do remember 1995


Posted by: HousingCop

Rosenthal's brother is quite a weatherman too.


Posted by: Irish Wampanoag

Berverly MA 1992

Jamie Fuller 17 killed his girlfreind Amy Carnevale 14 behind the Beverly Memorial Middle School stabbing the young girl at least 10 times in heart chest and breast one stab went all the way through the other side cutting through her spine. Once Amy was dead with the help of his friend Michael Maillet 19 moved Amy's body to Beverly's Shoe Pond placed he on a raft pushed her out and stated according to court records "It Sucks To Be You Amy"
According to the defense he used the steriod defense. He claimed he was out of his mind when he commited the murder with drugs and alcohol mixed with his abuse of steriods which obtain from a Canadian company through the mail. Jamie Fuller was convicted of first degree murder life without the possiblity of parole.
This was amoung many cases in Massachusetts with prompt the state to pass or enforce stronger domestic laws in the early 90s.


Posted by: KSB

Dr. Richard Sharpe, the cross dressing millionaire dermatologist. Convicted of murdering his estranged wife.


Posted by: USMCMP5811

I'm trying to think of the murder in Needham back in 1987-88. I believe it was on Paul Revere Rd. Guy hacked up his Girfriend in the tub...I just can't seem to find it by Googling it.


Posted by: kwflatbed

Plymouth Mail Robbery 1962

BRINK'S ROBBERY In Boston MA 1950

Lizzy Borden Murder in Fall River 1892


A good resource:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/


Posted by: USMCTrooper

Quote:
Originally Posted by kwflatbed
BRINK'S ROBBERY In Boston MA 1950
In preparing the historical display of the MSP during the Eastern States Expo, I came across the original witness statements for this crime, boxes of them. That was some reading!


Posted by: Delta784

The Charles Stuart case;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stuart_(murderer)

I was a Boston Housing cop at the time, my partner was the one who found the keys Stuart tossed out of the car after he shot his wife & himself.


Posted by: KSB

Quincy control to Delta784

The Dominatrix who's client died in her Quincy dungeon of a heart attack. Her clients body was never found.


Posted by: Irish Wampanoag

Brockton May 15th 1981

Frank Zadrozny 11 of Carl Ave Brockton, MA and his best friend on the morning of May 15th 1981 walk together and made their way to the Davis Elementry School in Brockton. The boys made a pit stop in the woods near the school to check out their little fort they had made. Frank was never seen alive again. Later that evening Dectectives from Brockton found Franks lifeless body in brush not to far from the fort. The Detectives noticed that the boy had been sexually assaulted and sodomized before he was killed.
Brockton Police tried to interview the boys best friend but got no cooperation from the boys parents ( In those days the parents had absolute say as far as if their child would cooperate in an investigation) Brockton detectives did go to the friends house shortly after the discovery and notice he was under the table screaming the clowns are going to get me if I say anything repeatedly before the parents closed the door on the detectives face. A short time later the parents and the boy moved to Florida never to be heard of again. Brockton Police recieved several reports of two men in a blue van driving around several days prior to the murder. A warning went out to all schools in Massachusetts telling kids to keep away from blue vans. To this day no one was ever caught for the said crime. However in October of 2003 the Plymouth County DA has reopened it as a cold case which DNA may help in their investigation.


Posted by: Delta784

Quote:
Originally Posted by KSB
Quincy control to Delta784

The Dominatrix who's client died in her Quincy dungeon of a heart attack. Her clients body was never found.
Michael Lord.

I didn't see the crime scene, but I've seen the pictures.

Suffice to say, it's beyond bizarre.


Posted by: KSB

She was well into her 50's. At what age does a dominatrix retire?


Posted by: Delta784

Quote:
Originally Posted by KSB
She was well into her 50's. At what age does a dominatrix retire?
She looked pretty good for someone approaching 60.

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/0...-bondage-death




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