Danielle Dauphinais Murders 5 Year Old Son

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Danielle Dauphinais

Danielle Dauphinais is a killer from New Hampshire who would murder her five year old son Elijah Lewis

According to court documents police in Massachusetts would find the body of Elijah Lewis in a State park which was approximately ninety minutes from his home in New Hampshire

An autopsy would reveal that five year old Elijah had died from facial and scalp injuries, acute fentanyl intoxication, malnutrition, and pressure ulcers.”

Danielle Dauphinais would be arrested along with her boyfriend Joseph Stapf

Joseph Stapf would plead guilty soon after his arrest to manslaughter, assault, falsifying physical evidence and witness tampering

Danielle Dauphinais was set to go to trial however she would later tell prosecutors her intent to plead guilty to second degree murder and is expected to receive a long prison sentence

Danielle Dauphinais Case

Danielle Dauphinais, the mother of Elijah Lewis, is preparing to plead guilty in the New Hampshire 5-year-old’s 2021 death, according to court documents. Elijah’s body was found in Abington, Massachusetts after an extensive search that lasted more than a week.

Dauphinais, 38, will plead guilty Thursday to second-degree murder and two counts of witness tampering, according to a plea agreement filed Monday. She faces up to 55 years in prison

Elijah was reported missing and found dead in October 2021 in an Abington park. An autopsy showed he suffered facial and scalp injuries, acute fentanyl intoxication, malnourishment and pressure ulcers.

Dauphinais’ boyfriend, Joseph Stapf, pleaded guilty to manslaughter, second-degree assault, falsifying physical evidence and witness tampering in 2022 in connection with the boy’s death. He was sentenced to 22 to 45 years in prison.

During Stapf’s sentencing, they read a series of texts between Stapf and Dauphinais that expressed hostility toward Elijah.

Prosecutors said Elijah was starved, neglected and physically abused.

When Elijah died and child welfare workers started to investigate his disappearance, the couple put his body in a container and brought him to Ames Nowell State Park in Abington, where Stapf dug a hole and buried him, according to prosecutors.

Prosecutors said that when Elijah was found, he was 3 feet tall and weighed 19 pounds, while an average 5-year-old boy would be about 3.6 feet tall and closer to 40 pounds.

When Elijah was still missing, Stapf and Dauphinais were arrested in New York on charges of witness tampering and child endangerment. Days after their arrest, Elijah’s remains were found.

Dauphinais was indicted in 2022 on one count of first-degree murder alleging that she purposely caused her son’s death, one count of second-degree murder alleging she acted recklessly in causing his death, and three counts of witness tampering.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/elijah-lewis-death-danielle-dauphinais-plea

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John Odgren Murders James Alenson

John Odgren was a sixteen year old teen killer from Massachusetts that would stab to death fifteen year old James Alenson

According to court documents John Odgren and James Alenson were students at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School when a fight would break out between the two inside of a bathroom. Odgren would pull out a knife and proceeded to stab the other student to death

John Odgren would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in prison

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John Odgren’s lawyers depicted him as a troubled 16-year-old with a long history of emotional problems and disorders, including Asperger’s syndrome – a form of autism – attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and depression. A Middlesex Superior Court jury viewed him as a premeditated killer, and convicted Odgren, now 19, of first-degree murder, for fatally stabbing another student at a suburban Boston high school.

A first-degree murder conviction in Massachusetts carries an automatic life sentence with no possibility for parole.

The jury Thursday rejected a defense assertion that Odgren was legally insane when he stabbed 15-year-old James Alenson in a boys’ bathroom at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School on Jan. 19, 2007.

Odgren showed no outward emotion as the verdict was announced. He then sat down in his chair and was comforted by his attorneys.

Odgren’s father testified that his son, who had a genius-level IQ, was anxious and would not socialize with other children. He was teased and harassed at various schools he attended, and talked of suicide at age 9, his father said.

Three child behavioral specialists testifying for the defense said that Odgren had lost touch with reality and was in a state of paranoia when he stabbed Alenson. They said he was not criminally responsible for killing Alenson.

The defense experts cited Odgren’s fascination with Stephen King’s series of books, “The Dark Tower,” and his obsession with the number 19, which is symbolic in the books. Odgren stabbed Alenson on the 19th day of the month and year.

But prosecutors depicted Odgren as a calculating killer who brought a carving knife to school, then picked a victim at random.

A state-certified psychiatrist testifying for prosecutors said Odgren knew what he was doing and was aware of the consequences when he attacked Alenson. She cited statements he made to authorities after the killing, when he admitted killing Alenson and asked about the possible sentence for manslaughter.

“I did it. I just snapped. I don’t know why,” Odgren told a teacher who ran to the scene.

Had the jury found Odgren not guilty by reason of insanity, he would have been sent to a psychiatric hospital until a judge ruled he was no longer a danger to society.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-odgren-mass-teen-convicted-of-killing-student-faces-life-jury-rejects-insanity-claim/

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Julia Enright Murders Brandon Chicklis

Julia Enright is a killer from Ashburnham, Massachusetts who would murder Brandon Chicklis inside of a treehouse

According to court documents Julia Enright would lure Brandon Chicklis to a treehouse next to her home in Ashburnham Massachusetts. When Brandon arrived he would be stabbed to death. Enright would then wrap up his body in a tarp and would dump the body in New Hampshire

Julia Enright would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for twenty five years

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Julia Enright will serve the maximum sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years in the 2018 slaying of Brandon Chicklis, which prosecutors argued she carried out as a “surprise gift” for her boyfriend, a judge has ruled.

Judge Daniel Wrenn handed down the sentence on Friday morning after hearing statements from nine family members and friends about how Chicklis’s murder has affected their lives. All asked for the harshest penalties allowable by law.

Chicklis, 20, was stabbed to death inside a treehouse on June 23, 2018, on a property next door to Enright’s Packard Hill Road home in Ashburnham. Enright, now 25, was 21 at the time of the killing and had dated Chicklis when the two rode the bus together to Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School.

His body — wrapped in a blanket, a tarp, and a beige canvas sheet — was discovered by a jogger 17 days later on July 10, 2018 on the side of Route 119 in Rindge, New Hampshire.

“Every day when drive to work, I get to choose: Do I drive by where she dumped my son’s body today, or do I drive by where she dumped his car?” Chicklis’s mother, Trisha Edwards-Lamarche, told the judge.

She described her first-born son as “kind and gentle” as she wondered “why” Enright chose to take his life on that “sunny day.”

His father, Paul Chicklis, described Enright as a “demon” who befriended his son and visited his family home countless times before eventually turning on him and taking his life.

Chicklis’s grandmother, Louisa Rocha, says “since his tragic death,” she’s worn a necklace with a bumble bee locket containing some of his remains.

“I love you Brandon, you’ll always be my bumble bee,”she told the judge, using the nickname she gave Chicklis when he was just a 1 week old.

A jury found Enright guilty of second-degree murder on Nov. 29 after three full days of deliberation.

“There is not a day that goes by that don’t think about this or don’t wish I could go back,” Enright said Friday, addressing the court on her own behalf in hopes of earning the minimum sentence. “Maybe you need to hear me say this: I’m sorry to everyone. His parents, his siblings, his loved ones, my parents, friends, everyone.”

Dressed in a beige cardigan and with her hair pulled tightly back in a ponytail, Enright was unwavering as she turned slightly to address Chicklis’s family, never once speaking his name in her nearly five-minute statement.

“I want you to know how much I’ve thought about everything. I need you to know I mean it. I need you to know that every night I pray for my family. I’m praying for yours too,” Enright said.

But the convicted killer, while pleading for a lighter sentence, said “I won’t lie and pretend like being with my family and loved ones isn’t the only thing I want.”

After the judge handed down the strictest sentence possible, Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early said “today’s sentencing doesn’t remove the pain experienced by the Chicklis family after losing their loved one, but we hope it brings a measure of justice for this young man and his family.”

The Chicklis family in a statement after the sentencing on Friday said they “are grateful and appreciative of the dedication and hard work by all the law enforcement agencies involved and the prosecutors and victim witness advocates who helped seek justice for Brandon.

Enright faced a life sentence with the opportunity for parole no sooner than 15 years — which her attorney argued for unsuccessfully. She was initially slated for sentencing in January at the height of the omicron coronavirus wave, but prosecutors pushed the date for “COVID-related issues.”

Julia Enright admitted her boyfriend, Jonathan Lind, helped her transport and dump Chicklis’s body while testifying on the stand during her trial. Prosecutors presented evidence of Lind’s cell phone being pinged in the area on the day of the murder where Chicklis’s body was later found.

Lind was arrested in December two weeks after Enright was found guilty. He pleaded not guilty to four charges in connection with Chicklis’s death on Feb. 16 in Worcester Superior Court. He is currently out on bail awaiting trial.

Julia Enright’s first court appearance back in 2018 was on what would have been Chicklis’s 21st birthday.

Instead of cake and candles, his family was in court awaiting Enright’s arraignment.

“That’s how we celebrated his birthday,” his grandmother said.

“Brandon was a kind young man that was loved, is missed, and will always remain in our hearts,” reads his obituary.

https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/03/treehouse-murder-trial-julia-enright-sentenced-to-25-years-for-the-murder-of-brandon-chicklis.html

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Kristen Gilbert Nurse Serial Killer

Kristen Gilbert is a serial killer from Massachusetts who would be convicted of four murders however suspected of many mores

According to court documents Kristen Gilbert was working as a nurse at a VA hospital in Northampton Massachusetts where a high number of deaths were occuring on her shift. Authorities would later state that Gilbert would inject adrenaline into the patients which would cause them to have a heart attack and then she would be part of the team to resuscitate the patient. Authorities believe she was attempting to prove how competent a nurse she was

In the end Kristen Gilbert would be charged with four murders and would later be convicted of all four and would be sentenced to four consecutive life terms without parole

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”There was a coldness in Ward C,” the prosecutor began his wintry tale of white-coated murder this week.

”It was a deep, eerie, unsettling feeling that something terribly, terribly wrong was happening,” the prosecutor, Assistant United States Attorney William M. Welch II, went on. Patients were succumbing to sudden cardiac arrest at an alarming rate, a suspicious rate. Finally, he said, in February 1996, ”three registered nurses came forward to report a patient’s, a health care professional’s, a hospital’s worst nightmare: there was a killer amongst them.”

That killer, prosecutors say, was Kristen Gilbert, 33, a former nurse, who is on trial in federal court here, accused of killing four patients and trying to kill three others by injecting them with epinephrine, a stimulant that can cause heart failure.

Massachusetts is one of 12 states without the death penalty, but in a rare jurisdictional twist, Ms. Gilbert’s is a capital case nonetheless, the first since the state’s death penalty was overturned in 1984. Because the deaths were on federal property, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Mass., the case is being tried in federal court. So prosecutors can, and say they will, seek the death penalty.

If they succeed, Ms. Gilbert will be the first woman executed by the federal government since 1953, when Bonnie Brown Heady, a convicted murderer, was gassed to death in Missouri and Ethel Rosenberg was executed for espionage. And Ms. Gilbert would be the first Massachusetts defendant executed since 1947.

The prosecution’s success, however, is far from assured.

In a nearly two-hour opening argument today, the defense lawyer, David P. Hoose, emphasized that no one had seen Kristen Gilbert inject the patients. He said that they were all extremely sick and that the prosecution’s claim that epinephrine was found in the exhumed bodies of patients was based on shoddy science.

The case is really about ”an investigation that started with a conclusion and then worked backwards to fill in the gaps,” Mr. Hoose said. ”And the proposition they started with was that people were injected with epinephrine, and Kristen Gilbert did it.”

The investigators are not the first to make such dark assertions in a medical case. Last year, Orville Lynn Majors, a nurse, was convicted of giving lethal injections to six patients in a western Indiana hospital, and was sentenced to 360 years in prison. This fall, a federal judge on Long Island sentenced Michael J. Swango, a former doctor, to three consecutive life sentences for similar murders.

As the prosecution tells it, Ms. Gilbert first came under scrutiny because colleagues on Ward C, which housed an intensive care unit and chronic patients, noticed that people seemed more likely to die when she was around. They also noticed, the prosecution says, an apparent shortfall in epinephrine, normally used to counteract allergic reactions to medication or bee stings.

Mr. Welch said Ms. Gilbert reveled in the excitement of emergency calls, so she created emergencies by injecting patients with epinephrine.

She had a particular reason to crave that spotlight, he said. She began an affair in late 1995 with one of the hospital’s security police, James Perrault, who was summoned to help whenever an emergency call was made. Colleagues observed her flirting with Mr. Perrault in the emergencies, Mr. Welch said.

In one case, he contended, Kristen Gilbert killed a patient simply to empty the intensive care unit so she could leave early for a date. Mr. Welch also said Ms. Gilbert had confessed to Mr. Perrault, who would testify, he said, that she told him in a phone conversation: ”I did it. You wanted to know. I killed all those guys by injection.”

The defense does not deny that Kristen Gilbert had an affair with Mr. Perrault. Rather, Mr. Hoose, the defense lawyer, portrayed the affair as the source of many of her troubles. The close-knit staff on Ward C gossiped about her, he said, and after she moved out of her house and began divorce proceedings, she was increasingly ostracized.

Moreover, by the spring of 1996, he said, she had been injured and lost her job, she had health problems, her relationship with Mr. Perrault had turned stormy and the stress was breaking her. By summer, she was in a psychiatric hospital, tormented, he argued, by the investigation itself rather than by any crime she had committed.

When she told Mr. Perrault she had killed the patients, he said, she was being angry and provocative, but not actually confessing. As for the missing epinephrine, Mr. Hoose said, ”No one knew how much epinephrine was missing, if any.” He also said that two nurses with drug problems may have been involved in its disappearance.

Mr. Hoose also tried to neutralize the prosecution’s claim that other nurses had twice found broken containers of epinephrine in needle-disposal buckets soon after emergency calls involving Kristen Gilbert. The prosecution has not produced those containers, he said, asking, ”Where are they?”

Then there is the science. Mr. Hoose said the toxicologist who is expected to testify about the presence of epinephrine in two bodies invented a process ”in order to find what he wanted to find.” The prosecution maintains that the analysis of the remains was valid, and that it clearly indicated abnormal amounts of epinephrine, particularly in two patients who were not given epinephrine as part of their treatment.

”This is largely going to come down to a battle of scientific experts,” Mr. Hoose said, asking the jury not to convict ”unless the science is sound, reliable science.”

Testimony early this week focused on the first of the seven patients, and included a nurse’s description of hearing the patient cry out, while Ms. Gilbert was in his room: ”Stop! Stop! You’re killing me!” But the nurse also said the patient was a frequent loud complainer.

Even more dramatic testimony from another nurse is expected. Mr. Welch described a pivotal moment on Feb. 15, 1996, when a colleague, Kathy Rix, had begun to suspect foul play connected with the epinephrine. On that day, Ms. Rix counted three containers in the intensive care unit’s medicine cabinet at 4 p.m.; an hour later, after an emergency call that involved Kristen Gilbert, she counted again and found none, and then saw three broken containers in the needle disposal bucket.

”She felt sick to her stomach and her knees about buckled,” Mr. Welch said, ”because she now knew what had been happening on Ward C.”

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Philip Chism Murders Teacher

Philip Chism was a fourteen year old from Massachusetts when he would murder his teacher

According to court documents Philip Chism would stalk Colleen Ritzer and follow her into a girls bathroom where he would sexually assault, murder and rob the young woman. Philip would then take her body out of the school and pose her in the woods

Philip Chism would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 38 years

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Peggie and Tom Ritzer and their two remaining children have 38 years before they will have to face Philip Chism again.

They say that’s too soon.

In an emotionally charged day in Salem Superior Court, the Ritzers spoke about the loss of their daughter Colleen, killed at 24 years old at the hands of one of the students she taught.

Philip Chism, then 14, raped, murdered and robbed Ritzer in the bathroom of Danvers High School on Oct. 22, 2013, leaving her body posed in the woods just outside the school.

A jury in December found him guilty of first-degree murder with deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity and cruelty. They rejected the defense’s argument that Philip Chism was insane when he killed Ritzer with a box cutter.

Judge David A. Lowy sentenced Philip Chism to life in prison, with the possibility of parole after 25 years on the murder charge — the maximum he could levy on that count. But he also gave the now 17-year-old boy a 40-year concurrent sentence on the charges or aggravated rape and armed robbery, meaning Chism will be 54 before he gets a chance at freedom.

“One cannot see and hear what this court has during the course of this case without feeling that the crashing waves of this tragedy will never wane,’’ Lowy said as he handed down the sentence. “No math will ever erase the reality that this crime was committed by a 14-year-old boy.’’

Back in October 2013, when Chism pulled his hoodie on and followed Ritzer into the girls’ bathroom, juveniles found guilty of first-degree murder were automatically sentenced to life without parole, just like adults.

But two months after Ritzer was buried, the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court, following a U.S. Supreme Court decision, made life without parole for juveniles

unconstitutional, and limited the number of years juveniles could be held without parole.

The Ritzers railed against the “disrespectful’’ decision the courts made.

“Colleen’s family, friends, students and those who admired her have been given a life sentence without parole, but not the individual who committed the heinous act,’’ Peggie Ritzer said after the sentence was announced. “This is wrong and unjust.’’

Her husband, Tom, added that a criminal like Philip Chism shouldn’t get a second chance. They plan on fighting for an amended law that would prevent other families from going through what they will have to.

Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said the high court’s decision “redefined justice’’ for families of murder victims by prohibiting life without parole for juvenile killers.

“Often times, when courts make decisions, the impact of those decisions can seem very remote,’’ Blodgett said. “I want everyone to see the impact of that decision. This family, that has suffered beyond measure, cannot close the book on this case.’’

Prosecutors had asked for Chism to serve at least 50 years before he was eligible for release — two consecutive life sentences for the murder, then the rape and robbery, each with parole eligibility after 25 years.

His defense, meanwhile, requested parole eligibility after 26 years, with Philip Chism eligible for release before he turned 40.

It was an emotional morning, as friends and family of Colleen Ritzer spoke to the judge about their loss. Ever since her daughter was murdered more than two years ago, Peggie Ritzer can barely stand to take a picture of her remaining children. Instead of a trio, she’s left with two.

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