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Posted by: kwflatbed

(WBZ) WASHINGTON A man released from a Massachusetts prison last summer is now accused of killing a couple in Washington over the weekend.

Daniel Thomas Tavares had served time behind bars after he was convicted in the stabbing death of his mother. Upon his release, police said Thomas moved to Washington to marry his prison pen pal, Jennifer Lynn Tavares, 37.

The two lived near the home of Brian and Beverley Mauck, who were both found murdered Saturday night. A neighbor had alerted police after noticing the Mauck’s door had been kicked in.

According to police, Daniel was arrested on Monday for investigation of aggravated first-degree murder. His wife was also taken into custody.

Investigators say they may never know the motive for the killings.

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Posted by: kwflatbed

Victim’s father rips Mass. ‘stupidity’

Convicted killer freed despite assault rap


By Michele McPhee and Jessica Van Sack
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The father of a Washington woman slaughtered along with her new husband - allegedly at the hands of a convicted Bay State killer - said his daughter’s accused murderer never should have been released from prison here.
“It’s because of stupidity in Massachusetts that my daughter is dead,” said Darrel Slater, 55, who is preparing to bury his daughter, Beverly Mauck, 28, and her husband Brian Mauck, 30.
The couple was executed in their home in rural Graham, Wash., Saturday after an alleged argument with Daniel Tavares Jr., 41, who in 1991 pleaded guilty to hacking his mother to death with a carving knife in their Somerset home in served 16 years for that crime.
Tavares finished his sentence on June 14, but was immediately re-arrested on a warrant charging him with two counts of assaulting Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center prison guards during his troubled stint behind bars, Department of Correction officials said.
Worcester prosecutors requested $50,000 cash bail for each of those charges, an amount approved by Clinton District Court Judge Martha Brennan, according to court documents.
But Tavares appealed the bail and on July 16, Superior Court Judge Kathe Tuttman released him on personal recognizance. Tavares was freed and fled the state to marry and live in a Washington trailer with Jennifer Lynn Tavares, who met the convict at Walpole after answering an inmate personal ad. He defaulted on a July 23 court date, prosecutors said.
“How does a guy who killed his mother, get charged with more crimes, get out of jail? How can he leave the state?” an angry Slater said last night.
“That judge needs to get her head out of her (expletive). My little girl was only 28. She was a newlywed. They just started their lives. This never should have happened,” Slater said.
Reached last night at her Andover home, Tuttman, who was appointed to the bench by former Gov. Mitt Romney, said, “I’m sorry, I’m not able to comment on this.” When informed what the slain woman’s father had said, she repeated, “I’m sorry, I’m not able to comment about this.”
A spokesman for Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early said prosecutors had wanted to keep Tavares behind bars last summer and argued for high bail because of the brutality of the alleged attacks on correction officers.
Correction officer Michael Kasprzak was allegedly punched in the head as he removed restraints from Tavares in December 2005. Two months later, the con allegedly spat on correction officer Matthew Atter and screeched, “I’m going to kill you (expletive) . . . I’ll break your (expletive) arms off!” according to court records.
“Obviously, we tried to keep him incarcerated,” said Worcester DA spokesman Tim Connolly.
Tavares also was disciplined by the DOC for writing a series of bizarre and threatening letters to his father, Daniel Tavares Sr. The elder Tavares complained about the letters to a DOC victim advocate, but they did not stop, he told the Herald yesterday.
In one letter, Tavares wrote about receiving a college education behind bars and learning seven languages.
He described his achievement this way:
“Only in Massachusetts.”
Daniel Tavares Jr.:

• + Report: Suspect confessed
• + For the criminal record
• + Terrified father told: He’s on his way to get you
• + Shame on soft-on-cons Bay State

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Posted by: TacEntry

This is F'ing despicable!

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Posted by: alphadog1

Another perfect example of appointing liberal judges.

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Posted by: bsull12

I wonder how that judge feels now. Idiot

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Posted by: jettsixx

This state needs to start holding judges accountable for this type of thing.

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Posted by: kwflatbed

I’m gonna get you

Mom killer vowed to take out Mitt


Former Gov. Mitt Romney said yesterday convicted killer Daniel T. Tavares Jr. should never have been released - a decision made by Romney’s own judicial nominee - as it also was revealed yesterday that the twisted felon vowed he would kill the governor and other officials when he got out of jail.
“This is a dangerous man who killed his own mother. He should have been held on bail, given his violent record, attacks on correction officers and a history of threats against public officials, including Gov. Romney,” said Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom in a statement. “It is because of monsters like Daniel Tavares that we need the death penalty.”
But Romney stopped short of expressing regret for his nomination of Superior Court Judge Kathe M. Tuttman. Overturning the bail decision of a lower court on charges he assaulted prison guards, Tuttman set Tavares free July 16.
According to records obtained by the Herald, while in jail for killing his mother with a carving knife, Tavares in February 2006 threatened to kill the governor, attorney general, Bristol sheriff and other public officials when he got out of jail.
Tavares skipped town after the bail waiver and is now charged in the heinous murder of newlyweds Brian and Beverly Mauck of Graham, Wash. Relatives and friends of the Mauck family called on GOP presidential hopeful Romney to be accountable for the judge he nominated.
“He was the governor - he picked this judge,” said Beverly Mauck’s father, Darrel Slater, 51. “He should be answering for what happened.”
Said a friend of the Maucks, Allen Glasenapp, 50, of Washington, “Obviously at this stage in the game, one would say that Mitt Romney’s appointment of this judge was an error in judgment.”
While some speculated that the nomination could emerge as a thorny issue for Romney, noted political scientist Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics said, “Romney has a way out, but he hasn’t used it. This is so egregious he ought to come out and say, ‘I’m sorry I appointed (the judge).’ ”
Sabato said Romney’s nomination of the judge, however, is hardly equal to the famed Michael Dukakis furlough program that allowed Willie Horton to leave prison and brutalize a Maryland couple - helping to sink the 1988 presidential campaign of former Gov. Dukakis in the process.
“If he doesn’t (apologize),” Sabato said, “he’s asking for a negative attack ad, which would be a devastation. It will compare him perhaps unfairly to the Dukakis furlough program.”
Tuttman, 55, is a former Essex prosecutor who headed the family crimes and sexual assault unit before her widely praised appointment to the bench in 2006.
In 2005, Tuttman received the Massachusetts Office of Victim Assistance Criminal Justice Award for Outstanding Victim Advocacy.

Killer convict:
+ ‘Disruptive’ con earned good behavior time off</SPAN>


Jessica Heslam contributed.
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Posted by: kwflatbed

Sheriff: Gun tossed at site of wedding

By Michele McPhee
Saturday, November 24, 2007

On a sultry August day last summer, Daniel Tavares stood alongside Jennifer Freitas at Point Defiance in Washington - his bride-to-be’s name freshly inked onto his neck - and vowed to love her forever as the couple were married.
On Nov. 17, the couple returned to Point Defiance, only this time they allegedly were there to hurl into the waters of Puget Sound a .22-caliber gun police believe was used to execute a young couple.
“Yup. The same park where they were married, they got rid of the gun,” said Pierce County Sheriff‘s Department spokesman Ed Troyer.
Daniel and Jennifer Tavares lived in a trailer on her brother’s property - not far from the place where another newlywed couple, Beverly and Brian Mauck, had moved into their first home on a 5-acre spread.
Now the Maucks are dead, allegedly executed during an argument with Daniel Tavares, a violent ex-con.
“We didn’t know the whole story of how Jennifer met him,” said neighbor Ann Leffers. “We didn’t know him very well, except that he spent time in Massachusetts.”
Tavares, neighbors said, told a tale about killing his mother during an argument over his daughter being molested. It is unclear if Tavares has a daughter, but he does refer to one in a series of threatening missives, reviewed by the Herald, that he sent to his father from jail.
“We had no idea what kind of man he was,” Leffers said. “All we know is that he walked away from Massachusetts and walked into our lives.
“And we lost two good friends, two good people,” she went on. “And none of us really know why.”

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Mitt calls for judge to resign

By Michele McPhee and Jessica Van Sack

Presidential hopeful Gov. Mitt Romney yesterday demanded the resignation of his own judicial nominee after she...

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Posted by: SOT

Look this is PROOF positive if you have tats on your face, you are trouble!

I love how they say Romney threw her under the bus, No her actions put her under that bus.

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Posted by: GodblessThearmy

Great state of MA

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Posted by: jettsixx

Come on SOT, this is Massachusetts no one is responsible for their own actions here. Should be interesting I think this is going to come back to haunt Romney on the campaign trail.

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Posted by: underdod47

I know Judge Tuttman, Having had many cases with her in Lawrence District when she was a prosecutor there, I recall she was one of the first in the area to begin using (and winning cases with) the excited utterance rule, in domestic cases. She had a reputation of being tough and hated men who harmed women. This decision flies in the face of the prosecutor I had cases with. I guess when you become a Judge in this state you become a product of the liberal establishment. Go along to get along., now two are dead...Sad






The final countdown begins...TICK...TICk...TIck...Tick...tick

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Posted by: OutOfManyOne

Nothing can ever happen to this judge. This is Massachusetts, they are free to do whatever they want, for life.

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Posted by: Delta784

Quote:

Originally Posted by SOT Look this is PROOF positive if you have tats on your face, you are trouble!

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Posted by: OutOfManyOne


Sith Lord, proof of badass with face tats.

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Posted by: SOT

See! SEE!

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Posted by: kwflatbed

By Michele McPhee

During former Gov. Mitt Romney’s last year at the helm in Massachusetts, there were plenty of dangerous ex-cons like Daniel Tavares mingling with the public while our presidential wannabe was rubbing elbows with big-shot Republicans across the country.
Tavares - the sick Bay State killer who allegedly executed a pair of beautiful young newlyweds in Washington state last weekend months after being sprung early from prison for killing his mother - was coddled by a criminal justice system largely ignored by Romney.
Romney was out of the office 212 days in 2006.
Who could forget the convicted cop killer on a work-release team from the Boston Pre-Release Center emptying trash at the State House, right under Mitt Romney’s nose?
Terrill Walker, the triggerman who killed BPD Detective John Schroeder in 1973 during a robbery, was paid with taxpayer money courtesy of the Romney administration’s Department of Correction.
Walker should never see the light of day given his record. But “only in Massachusetts” could someone such as Walker be freed from prison on a technicality only to be rearrested for armed robbery during his brief stint of freedom.
There were five other killers working alongside Walker in the State House, too.
Also in 2006, the state ordered an audit of the sex offender registry board, with startling results: The audit found that 2,929 of the 15,828 sex offenders in the database were not registered.
Of those, 2,372 remained at large that summer. The audit was prompted after the state lost track of a Level 3 sex offender from Lowell, Michael Bizanowicz, who slaughtered a young woman and her 12-year-old daughter, Joanna and Alyssa Presti. He was found guilty of rape and murder a few months ago.
Does it surprise any of us that two years after Presti and her daughter were murdered by an ex-con pervert the state still couldn’t get it right, according to Romney’s own audit?
Also that year, Romney had the gall to visit the prison at Guantanamo Bay to share success stories about Massachusetts jails, even though he had only toured one during his four years in office.
That controversial trip came in the same year that four members of a Department of Correction advisory committee created by Romney quit in protest because he refused to enact the recommendations that would have helped rehabilitate savages like Tavares before they are released back into society.
Tavares was released with “good time” - set free after 16 years of a 17- to 20-year sentence. This is a guy who, incarcerated for killing his mother with a carving knife, then allegedly threatened his father, prompting his father to sleep with “one eye open” and a loaded 9 mm under his pillow at his Florida home.
This was a guy who attacked correction officers, joined a white supremacist prison gang, and spent years in solitary confinement at Walpole’s Disciplinary Disorders Unit.
“I was afraid of him,” the elder Daniel Tavares told me last week. “And I told people in Massachusetts corrections that I was afraid of him, I told them about the letters he was writing me. The letters didn’t stop, though.”
The outrageous way we coddle criminals in this state hasn’t stopped, either.

Rudy Giuliani’s right - Romney’s record on crime is “abysmal” and it’s not just because he appointed the Superior Court judge who released Tavares on personal recognizance when he was facing charges for assaulting prison guards last summer.
When he should have been managing his affairs in Massachusetts last year, Romney was courting votes in 35 states across the country, which is part of the reason killers like Tavares are running amok.

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Posted by: kwflatbed

A Massachusetts judge was just doing her job when she freed a convicted killer now charged with murdering a newlywed couple, the chief judge of the state Superior Court said Monday in a case that has become enmeshed in the presidential campaign.

Republican Rudy Giuliani has cited the case to criticize former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's record on crime. Romney, who appointed the judge, has called on her to resign.

On Monday, Chief Justice Barbara Rouse said Judge Kathe Tuttman applied the law to the facts that were before her when she made the decision to free Daniel Tavares Jr.

"Today, unfortunately, she is living every judge's nightmare: that a principled decision based on the law and the information provided to her was followed by tragic events over which she had no control," Rouse said in a statement.

In June, Tavares completed a 16-year sentence for manslaughter for killing his mother, but prosecutors tried to keep him in prison for alleged assaults on two prison guards.

A district court judge approved bail of $50,000, but in July, Tuttman overturned the decision and freed Tavares on personal recognizance.

Tavares, 41, fled to Graham, Wash., and was arrested last week for allegedly shooting to death Brian Mauck, 30, and Beverly Mauck, 28, who lived near him.

Tuttman, who had an 18-year career as a state prosecutor before becoming a judge, has become a hot topic on the presidential campaign trail.

While still incarcerated in Massachusetts, Tavares threatened to kill Romney and other state officials in a letter that was intercepted by prison officials in February 2006, Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said.

Massachusetts State Police suspected Tavares might be living in Washington state, and based on the earlier threat against Romney, warned him before his scheduled campaign appearance there last week, Fehrnstrom said.

In response to Rouse's defense of Tuttman, Fehrnstrom said in an e-mail: "Gov. Romney appointed Judge Tuttman based on her long record both as a prosecutor and as an advocate for victims. Judge Tuttman's entire experience as a prosecutor suggested she would be a law-and-order judge. Her actions in this case are inexcusable."

During the hearing before Tuttman, prosecutors underscored Tavares' history of violence and asked that if he were to be released, he be monitored with a GPS device.

Tavares' attorney, Barry Dynice, told the judge that corrections officials waited more than a year -- until shortly before he was due to complete his manslaughter sentence -- to refer the assault allegations to prosecutors in an attempt to keep Tavares in prison.

Dynice added Tavares had no history of failing to show up for court.

The judge declined to order a monitoring system, saying she was presented with no evidence that he was a flight risk. She ordered him freed on the condition that he call probation officers three times a week, live with his sister and work.

"It is the Court's view that Mr. Tavares has wrapped his sentence on the underlying offense. He doesn't have a history of any defaults on his record. And there is no indication before the Court based on the representations of counsel and the record before me that he is a risk of flight, other than the nature and circumstances of the charges," Tuttman said, according to a transcript of the hearing.

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Posted by: kwflatbed

Bay State cops likely knew about Tavares’ whereabouts

By Michele McPhee and Jessica Van Sack
Massachusetts authorities knew that ex-con Daniel Tavares was “likely in Washington” three months before...


Sex offender slipped under radar

By Dave Wedge
A judge under fire for springing a killer was the supervising prosecutor on a botched case that set a child...

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Posted by: kwflatbed

Officials may today seek death for double-slay suspect Tavares

Washington state authorities will announce today whether they will seek the death penalty against a former Bay State murder inmate who is accused of the execution-style slayings of two newlyweds in November.
Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney Gerald A. Horne is scheduled to make the announcement in the case of Daniel T. Tavares Jr. in Tacoma, Wash., said Ed Troyer, a sheriff’s department spokesman.
Tavares, 41, is accused of fatally shooting Brian and Beverly Mauck in their Graham, Wash., home on Nov. 17, 2007. The deadline for prosecutors to seek the death penalty is Friday. Tavares is charged with two counts of aggravated first-degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm.
It would be good if they do go for the death penalty, but it might be too easy on him,” said Darrel Slater, the father of Beverly Mauck, 28.
Tavares served 16 years in prison for the 1991 killing of his mother, Ann, 46. Just before his release in June, Tavares was arraigned on charges that he assaulted correction officers in 2005.
A district court judge ordered Tavares held on $100,000, but he was released on personal recognizance in July by Superior Court Judge Kathe M. Tuttman during a bail review hearing. Former Gov. Mitt Romney called on Tuttman, his appointee, to resign during his presidential campaign.
Tavares’ wife, Jennifer Lynn Tavares, is charged with rendering criminal assistance. The couple met through inmate.com.

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Posted by: kwflatbed

Tavares makes deal for life in prison

Wash. prosecutor urges Mass. to get tough on felons


The Washington state prosecutor who will put Bay State mom-killer Daniel T. Tavares Jr. behind bars for life in exchange for his guilty plea in a November double-murder has a message for Massachusetts: crack down on vicious felons.
“I have resentment in all honesty,” said Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney Gerald A. Horne. “We’re really hard on violent criminals in the state of Washington because people don’t put it up with it. But it doesn’t seem to be that way in Massachusetts.”
Horne announced yesterday that Tavares, 41, would escape the death penalty by agreeing to plead guilty to first-degree murder charges in connection with the execution-style deaths of newlyweds Beverly and Brian Mauck.
A hearing will be held today to set a date for Tavares’ plea.
“Mr. Tavares will die in prison, something that the victims’ family have felt very strongly about,” said Horne, who has prosecuted three ex-cons from Massachusetts for murder during his long career.
While most relatives of the Maucks spoke in favor of the plea deal, the father of Beverly Mauck, 28, said that he wanted the tattooed Tavares to face execution.
“I think he should just go down death row and just die,” said Darrel Slater, who did not attend a news conference announcing the arrangement in Tacoma, Wash.
Tavares, of Somerset, who spent 16 years in prison for the 1991 killing of his mother, Ann, 46, is accused of fatally shooting the Maucks in their home on Nov. 17, 2007. He offered to plead guilty through his attorney several weeks ago in exchange for a sentence of life in prison without the possiblity of parole, Horne said.
Brian Mauck’s sister, Jennifer Heilbrun, said her family did not want to endure a protracted legal battle in a death penalty case.
“I am elated. My family is elated. I think this gives us an opportunity to close this very sad chapter in our life,” she said.
Tavares moved to Washington last summer to marry Jennifer Lynn Tavares, a woman he met through the Web site www.inmate.com. She is also charged. His case enraged many because he might have remained locked up.
Just before his release from a Bay State prison in June, Tavares was arraigned on charges that he assaulted correction officers in 2005.
A district court judge ordered Tavares held on $100,000, but he was released on personal recognizance in July by Superior Court Judge Kathe M. Tuttman during a bail review hearing. Former Gov. Mitt Romney called on Tuttman, his appointee, to resign during his presidential campaign.

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