On a cold January afternoon in 1985, in a small apartment in Rye, New Hampshire, three men watched the six o'clock news with special interest. The day before, Mike DeNictolis, had drove two others, Ricky Costa and Dennis Daye, to the Lynnfield home of Robert and Patricia Paglia. Daye was dressed in a patrolman's uniform and Costa wore a three piece suit. DeNictolis, who had been a usher at the Paglia wedding, drove up near the house and let Daye and Costa out. Daye knocked on the door and introduced Costa as a DEA agent. They entered the house and carried out their plan. Daye shot Patricia with his revolver; Costa found Robert's shotgun and killed him. Daye and Costa then scurried around the house searching for profits of Robert Paglia's lucrative cocaine-dealing business. After only finding $15,000 they returned to Rye. The mood in the Rye apartment was relaxed that next day as the trio and Costa's ex-girlfriend watched the Paglia home appear on the TV screen. The reporter announced that Robert and Patricia Paglia had been murdered in their Lynnfield home gang-land style. Then, among the uniformed policemen and notebook toting reporters milling about the lawn, Ricky Costa spotted a familiar ruddy face. Costa's derisive grin disappeared. "What the hell's he doing there?" he shouted. "He's not supposed to be in that rinky-dink county! He's a mad dog! He never lets up!" Costa's ranting proved to be prophetic. Two and a half years later, in Salem Suprior Court, he, Daye and DeNictolis would be standing trial for the murder of Robert and Patricia Paglia. Costa's ex-girlfriend, who repeated that conversation in the Rye apartment, was the state's star witness. Sitting at the prosecutor's table when the guilty verdict was announced was the ruddy-faced man whose appearence on the Paglia lawn had caused Costa's outburst: State Police Detective Lieutenant Thomas Spartichino. The murder was a brutal double murder with no witnesses, no clues and no leads.
Excerpt from North Shore Life written by Robert Curtin.
Posted by: Irish Wampanoag
Rod Matthews, who once said he beat a 14-year-old classmate to death with a baseball bat to see what it was like to kill, told the state Parole Board Tuesday he now knows he committed the murder to vent his rage over his parents' marital problems.
"I wanted to take my anger out on him," Matthews said as he pleaded to be released after 20 years in prison.
Matthews was 14 when he lured Shaun Ouillette into the woods in Canton on Nov. 20, 1986, and bludgeoned him to death. He was convicted of second-degree murder after the jury rejected his defense that he was insane and pushed over the edge by Ritalin, a drug used to calm hyperactive children.
Matthews, now 34, said Tuesday that anger over his father's repeated extramarital affairs led to the killing. He also said he did it to impress two friends whom he had told about his plans.
Years of psychotherapy also has made him realize that neither insanity nor Ritalin was to blame for the killing, Matthews said.
During the trial, friends of Matthews testified he wanted to experience what it was like to kill someone, and chose Ouillette because he was new to the area and Matthews thought he wouldn't be missed. After killing Ouillette, Matthews showed the body to several friends as search teams spent weeks scouring the South Shore for the missing boy.
"If I ever have these thoughts, I will get help. ... I do not want to hurt anybody ever again," said Matthews, who broke down in tears several times during his testimony.
But board members expressed skepticism that he could be sure he would not kill again. The board denied Ouillette's first bid for parole in 2001 after Matthews said he had struggled to understand the thoughts that drove him to kill and could not guarantee he wouldn't succumb to them again.
Board Chairwoman Maureen Walsh said Matthews developed a "cool and cunning and manipulative plan" to kill Ouillette.
Ouillette's mother, Jeanne Quinn, urged the board to keep Matthews in prison -- but not for vengeance.
"I am here to keep us all safe, because I am afraid of what will happen if this man is set free," she said.
The board was not expected to issue an immediate decision.
Posted by: mpd61
He would make a good HR director or vice president!
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