Danielle Dauphinais Murders 5 Year Old Son

Danielle Dauphinais
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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Adam Montgomery Guilty Of Daughters Murder

Adam Montgomery is a killer from New Hampshire who was convicted of the murder of his daughter Harmony Montgomery

According to court documents Adam Montgomery would lose his temper after his five year old daughter Harmony Montgomery soiled herself and he would beat the little girl to death

Adam Montgomery after seeing that he killed his daughter he would conceal the body for months. Montgomery would stuff Harmony’s body into a duffel bag and would later put her in a cooler covered by lime to cover up the smell of decomposition. Eventually Adam would rent a U-Haul van and bring Harmony’s remains to outside of Boston and dumped her

Adam Montgomery would keep his daughters death hidden for two years. Eventually Harmony’s mother would file a missing persons report in 2022 after he failed to enroll the five year old in school

Adam Montgomery who is a convicted violent felon would ultimately be arrested and later convicted for the murder of Harmony Montgomery

Adam Montgomery Case

Jurors found New Hampshire father Adam Montgomery guilty in the murder of his 5-year-old daughter Harmony after about six hours of deliberation over two days.

Prosecutors said during the two-week trial that after beating the helpless child, her father shot up opioids and ate fast food as she died in the back seat of his car as she died from her injuries.

After he realized she was dead, according to investigators, he concealed the body for months, heartlessly crushing her into a duffel bag and then a cooler and coating her with lime to reduce the odor of decomposition.

Eventually, he allegedly rented a U-haul truck and dumped her battered remains “like trash” somewhere outside Boston.

Then he said nothing for nearly two years. Harmony was finally reported missing when her frustrated noncustodial mother, Crystal Sorey, discovered the child had never been enrolled in school. Manchester police declared her a missing person in December 2022.

Montgomery, a 33-year-old violent New Hamsphire felon and drug addict, had somehow been awarded custody after his release from prison for shooting a drug dealer in the face, even as her brother’s adoptive parents were actively trying to add her to their family.

“This is not a day we celebrate,” her brother’s adoptive parents, Blair and Johnathon Miller, said in a statement moments after jurors announced their verdict. “It is a day that only adds to the incredible pain and heartache that surrounds a little girl who was never given a chance.”

Jamison, Harmony’s brother, has been praying for her to return every night, they said.

“Jamison would go to the front door, hoping Harmony would find us,” they said. “He would search for her in a park. As we now dig deep within our hearts to find the ability to offer forgiveness, we look to our son to give him the strength to fight off the demons that this tragedy has brought for a lifetime.”

A Massachusetts watchdog agency later found that the state’s child welfare system did not prioritize her “needs, well-being and safety” in placing her in her father’s care.

While collecting welfare on her behalf, he lived out of a car with his now-estranged wife Kayla, whom he is also accused of beating, and continued to use drugs, prosecutors said. Her testimony at trial is key evidence in the case.

As part of a plea deal, Kayla Montgomery gave investigators damning testimony implicating her husband on charges that include second-degree murder, abusing a corpse and falsifying evidence. She told detectives that Adam Montgomery kept Harmony’s corpse for three months, repeatedly hiding it in new places before allegedly dumping it somewhere near Boston. Although the girl’s body has not been recovered, investigators allegedly found her DNA in at least one location where he allegedly stowed it.

On Dec. 7, 2019, the day investigators believe Harmony died, she had soiled herself in her sleep, prosecutors said. Her father allegedly beat her over the head viciously, telling his wife, “I think I really hurt her this time.”

Then they went to a methadone clinic, picked up drugs, and got fast food, prosecutors said in their opening statement.

Little Harmony had another accident, prosecutors said. Her father turned around and beat her again. She died, moaning and gurgling, as prosecutors said he ate his food and shot up some drugs.

He is already serving a minimum of 32 and a half years in prison for an unrelated firearms case – and has pleaded guilty to lesser charges in connection with Harmony’s death.

Harmony’s remains have not been found.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/harmony-montgomery-murder-jury-reaches-verdict-in-adam-montgomery-trial

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Logan Clegg Murders 2 In New Hampshire

Logan Clegg is a killer from New Hampshire who was convicted in the murders of Stephen Reid and Djeswende Reid

According to court documents Logan Clegg was a felon who was living in the bush in a tent when retired couple Stephen Reid and Djeswende Reid went for a walk. Clegg would fatally shoot the couple. The reason behind the seemingly random murder is unknown. Clegg would flee the State later telling police he was trying to avoid authorities due to a parole violation and not the murders of Stephen Reid and Djeswende Reid

Logan Clegg would be arrested, convicted and was sentenced to fifty years to life

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Logan Clegg convicted of murder in shooting deaths of Concord, NH couple

Logan Clegg Case

A man who was living in a tent in the woods in New Hampshire was convicted of murder Monday in the fatal shooting of a retired couple who had gone out for a walk.

After a day and a half of deliberation, a jury found Logan Clegg, 27, guilty of second-degree murder in the deaths of Stephen and Djeswende Reid in April 2022. The couple were killed while walking on a trail near their apartment in the city of Concord.

The bodies of the couple, found several days later, had been dragged into the woods and covered with leaves, sticks and debris, police said.

Clegg, who gave a different name when he was questioned by police, later burned his tent, erased information from his computer and bought a bus ticket out of Concord, prosecutors said. Investigators eventually found and arrested him in South Burlington, Vermont, with a one-way plane ticket to Berlin, Germany, a fake passport, and a gun in his backpack, prosecutors said.

Clegg’s lawyers said he left New Hampshire not because of the Reids, but because he had been hiding from police after violating his probation on burglary and theft charges in Utah.

They also said an analysis of shell casings and bullets found in the area could not conclude that his gun fired the shots that killed the Reids.

Clegg was also convicted on charges of falsifying physical evidence and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

The trial began Oct. 3.

Prosecutors said Clegg’s repeated lies, his attempt to flee, and the gun found in his backpack offered a trail of evidence to show he was guilty. But defense attorneys said authorities charged the wrong person.

“The state has proven to you over the past three weeks now that the defendant, and the defendant only, killed Stephen and Wendy,” prosecutor Joshua Speicher said, describing the killing as senseless. “We have proven this beyond a reasonable doubt. We have proven to you how he did it, when he did it, where he did it.”

Speicher added, “What we don’t know is why. We just don’t know.”

Defense attorney Mariana Dominguez argued that the state’s case was built on speculation and was full of holes.

“Logan Clegg is not guilty,” she said. “Police investigated, but instead of looking at the science and at the evidence with clear eyes, they speculated. They assumed. … They saw only what they wanted to see. They got the wrong guy.”

Prosecutors said that shell casings and bullet fragments were later found at the crime scene. Shell casings also were found at a location later discovered to be Clegg’s tent site. Prosecutors said bullets fired from Clegg’s 9 mm handgun were consistent in caliber and class characteristics as bullet fragments found during the Reids’ autopsies.

Logan Cleggs’ lawyers said an analysis of shell casings and bullets found in the area could not conclude that his gun fired the shots and that the casing could have come from a variety of guns.

“They have no idea what gun killed the Reids,” Dominguez told the jury during her closing arguments, adding that police “only had eyes” for Clegg’s gun.

Both sides also gave differing accounts of a woman who was walking on the trail with her dogs and allowed the Reids to pass her and walk ahead. She later heard gunshots, then came across a man on the trail before continuing her hike. Defense attorneys argued that the man she saw on the trail was not Clegg because the clothing he had on did not match the prosecution’s description.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/logan-clegg-guilty-verdict-murder-concord-new-hampshire-couple-stephen-djeswende-reid/

Logan Clegg Sentencing

A man who was convicted of murder in the deadly shooting of a retired New Hampshire couple who had gone out for a walk was sentenced to life in prison Friday morning.

Logan Clegg, 27, was handed a prison sentence of 50 years to life after Judge John Kissinger, who was presiding over the hearing, called him a “stone-cold, violent murderer.”

“Logan Clegg is a stone-cold, violent murderer, nothing more,” Kissinger told the court. “He shot and killed Steve and Wendy Reid for no reason. His statements today ring hollow. He deserves nothing less than a sentence that reflects the magnitude of his crimes, and for that reason, I’m going to fully impose the sentences as recommended by the state.”

Clegg was found guilty of second-degree murder in October in the deaths of Stephen and Djeswende Reid in April 2022.

Prosecutors said Clegg, who had been living in a tent in the woods at the time, shot the couple on a trail near their apartment in Concord before dragging their bodies into the woods.

Their bodies were found several days later, covered with leaves, sticks, and other debris, investigators said.

During his trial, which began on Oct. 3, prosecutors told the court that Clegg later burned his tent, erased his computer, and took a bus out of Concord after the shooting deaths.

Investigators later tracked him down and arrested him in South Burlington, Vermont. He was said to be found with a one-way plane ticket to Germany, a fake passport, and a gun.

Clegg’s legal team argued that he fled New Hampshire because he was on the run for violating his probation for burglary and theft in Utah, not because of the shooting deaths. They also claimed that authorities had arrested the wrong person.

“Those are not the actions of someone trying to escape a probation violation, those are the actions of a murderer in flight from his conduct,” Kissinger told the court.

Prosecutors presented an overwhelming amount of evidence during the trial, including shell casings and bullet fragments found at the crime scene and Clegg’s tent site. Those fragments were said to be consistent in characteristics from Clegg’s 9 mm handgun and those found during autopsies.

Before jurors were sent to deliberate, Prosecutor Joshua Speicher told the court, “The state has proven to you over the past three weeks now that the defendant, and the defendant only, killed Stephen and Wendy. We have proven this beyond a reasonable doubt. We have proven to you how he did it, when he did it, where he did it.”

Jurors returned the guilty verdict against Logan Clegg after deliberating for just a day and a half.

Kissinger called the killings a “senseless, horrific murder of two innocent people,” adding that Clegg “can never be in a position to hurt an innocent person.”

https://news.yahoo.com/sentencing-hearing-set-man-convicted-125950047.html

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Sheila LaBarre New Hampshire Serial Killer

Sheila LaBarre is a female serial killer from New Hampshire who was convicted of two murder however is believed to be responsible for more

According to court documents Sheila LaBarre would run a farm in New Hampshire where she would lure me in with promises with work however when they would show up they would be tortured and murdered

Sheila LaBarre would lure in Kenny Countie with the promise of work. She would film herself torturing Kenny while she accused him of being a pedophile. Kenny would be stabbed to death before she burned his body

The second known victim was Michael Deloge who was in a relationship with Shelia LaBarre. It is unclear how Michael died as his body was found decomposed inside of a septic tank.

Shelia LaBarre would be arrested and would plead not guilty by reason of insanity however the jury would not buy it and found her guilty on both murders. Shelia LaBarre would be sentenced to life in prison

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Sheila LaBarre Case

On June 20, 2008, a jury found that Sheila LaBarre was sane when she murdered two boyfriends in Epping, New Hampshire. LaBarre admitted to killing Michael Deloge and Kenneth Countie in 2005 and 2006, respectively, claiming God had made her an “avenging angel,” sent to earth to punish pedophiles. In her mind, this included Deloge and Countie, whose remains were found on her 115-acre farm.

“There seemed to be no basis whatsoever in reality to any suggestion or any claim that her victims were pedophiles, engaged in pedophilia or were child abusers. None whatsoever,” Brad Bailey, a defense attorney who represented LaBarre, tells A&E True Crime. “And that, too, was something that informed the insanity defense I pursued at trial.”

The jury rejected Sheila LaBarre’s plea, finding her guilty on two counts of first-degree murder and sentencing her to life in prison, where she remains today

At her trial in 2008, psychiatrist Dr. Roger Gray described LaBarre’s childhood as “populated with people who could use her however they wanted and wouldn’t protect her” and “populated with a real threat of death.” He also testified that the painful memories likely contributed to her decisions as an adult. During Gray’s testimony, LaBarre broke down and had to be escorted from the courtroom.

“Her childhood had been nightmarish,” Michael Benson, who wrote a book about LaBarre’s life, “The Burn Farm,” tells A&E True Crime. “She was [sexually and emotionally] abused by her dad and his friends, facts corroborated by her older sister, who also endured the abuse.”

Born in Alabama in 1958, Sheila LaBarre graduated from Fort Payne High School in 1976 and had several unsuccessful marriages. She was admitted to a psychiatric facility in the early 1980s after attempting suicide. Ronnie Jennings, her husband at the time, claimed her mood swings often turned violent. “Sheila’s mood disorders were severe enough to cause her to be psychotic at times, but there was not enough evidence to show that mental illness caused Sheila to commit her [future] crimes,” Benson says.

Sheila LaBarre moved to Epping, New Hampshire in 1987, after she answered a personal ad placed by local chiropractor Wilfred “Bill” LaBarre. Although she never legally married Bill LaBarre, she took his last name and lived with him until he died in 2000. Claiming she was Bill LaBarre’s common-law wife, LaBarre later inherited his entire estate, including the farm, despite objections from the deceased’s children.
‘Avenging Angel’ Commits Murder on the Farm

“When [LaBarre] was young…she swallowed a bottle of pills, slid into a car and drove until she passed out at the wheel and crashed,” says Benson. “She was rushed to a hospital and spent more than a week in a coma.”

When she awoke, she claimed that she had died and found herself seated at a table with various men who all had long beards. LaBarre insisted one of the men was God.

“She was told [by God] that her work on earth was not through and returned to her life under orders to kill pedophiles, to kill perverts like the men who had hurt her when she was little,” Benson says.

After she lured Deloge and Countie, a young man with a learning disability whom Sheila LaBarre met via a personal ad, to her farm, she subjected the men to physical and mental abuse. Prior to Countie’s death, two police officers recalled seeing him in a wheelchair inside a local Walmart, covered in bruises and burns.

“Sheila taped the audio of her torture sessions, tapes she could listen to after the victim was ashes and bones on the lawn, sessions in which she would force her victims to admit they were pedophiles,” says Benson.

Several days after the Walmart sightingSheila LaBarre made a bizarre phone call to Epping police in which she played audio of Countie confessing to being a pedophile. When police conducted a welfare check, they noticed a burn pile containing what looked like a large, fleshy human bone, bone fragments and a pair of sneakers. A search warrant was issued, and authorities arrested LaBarre on April 2, 2006, after she attempted to flee.

“Even after human remains had been found on her property, Sheila LaBarre was left alone to destroy evidence while the cops went to get a search warrant,” says Benson. “By the time they got back, the most impressive human bone and the victim’s sneakers were nowhere to be found. “Police conducted a three-week search of LaBarre’s farm, during which they discovered an incinerated mattress, human bones and blood splatter in various locations throughout the house. LaBarre admitted to stabbing Countie to death before burning his body. She also confessed to killing Deloge and burning his body, but it is unknown how he died.
Defense Argues ‘Lack of Criminal Responsibility’

“At the time that I represented her, I would describe Sheila as a severely mentally ill individual,” says Bailey. “Both our mental health experts were in agreement that Sheila was suffering from a substantial mental health disease or defect, such that she could not conform her behavior to the conduct of the law, or appreciate the difference between right and wrong, which is the standard in many states for an insanity defense.”

Based on observations and conversations with Sheila LaBarre, including multiple psychiatric evaluations, her defense team deemed there was viable ground to argue a lack of criminal responsibility, as defined by New Hampshire law—even though she admitted to two homicides. (This is called not guilty by reason of insanity in other states.) Also unique in New Hampshire, the burden of proving that someone is insane or not criminally responsible, is on the defense.

“In many other states, such as Massachusetts where my home practice is based, it’s different in that once it’s raised by the defense, the burden is on the prosecution to prove that somebody isn’t faking,” says Bailey. “So, I had the very unusual experience of putting evidence in front of the jury that established how severely mentally ill Sheila was.”

Among the evidence, Bailey and his team described an incident where Sheila LaBarre took a hatchet and hacked into a trailer where her boyfriend at the time was sleeping. They also detailed her taking a revolver and firing shots at another boyfriend as he ran through a field. And they brought in witnesses who testified they saw LaBarre order her victims into the trunk of her car and believed she kept the men in cages on her property.

In June 2002, the jury rejected the defense, finding LaBarre guilty of first-degree murder. While it’s difficult to speculate what forms a jury’s basis of opinion, Bailey believes that even if the jury understood lack of criminal responsibility, they likely considered LaBarre a future risk to society.

“In their minds, they might have thought Sheila was too dangerous and that she might one day get out if she was placed in a mental health facility.”


Could LaBarre be a Serial Killer?

Shelia LaBarre admitted to and was convicted of two homicides, which meets the FBI’s current definition of a serial killer.

While conducting a search of the LaBarre property in 2006, investigators also discovered three human toes near the farm. A forensic analysis determined the remains did not belong to either Countie or Deloge, and a DNA match has not yet surfaced. There has also been speculation that LaBarre killed Bill LaBarre, an allegation she denies.

Shelia LaBarre is currently serving life in prison without the possibility of parole at the New Hampshire Correctional Facility for Women in Concord, New Hampshire.

https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/sheila-labarre-serial-killer

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Nicole Kasinskas Murders Mother

Nicole Kasinskas was a sixteen year old teen killer from New Hampshire who would murder her mother

According to court documents Nicole Kasinskas was dating William Sullivan who was older and needless to say her mother did not approve of the relationship. When her mother would not allow to travel with William Sullivan out of State the two two would plan her murder

William Sullivan would strike Jeanne Dominico over the head with a baseball bat and proceeded to stab her multiple times causing her death. Nicole Kasinskas was waiting at a nearby 7-11 and would return to her home and help Sullivan clean up the aftermath of the murder

Nicole Kasinskas and William Sullivan would be arrested. Nicole would testify against Sullivan in return for a lighter sentence. This teen killer would receive a thirty five year to life sentence

William Sullivan was sentenced to life

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Nicole Kasinskas Case

A Nashua woman convicted of helping murder her mother lost a bid Wednesday to commute her prison sentence.

The Executive Council voted, 3-2, against the application of Nicole Kasinskas to be released from prison after serving 15 years, or less than half of her prison term, for the 2003 murder of Jeanne Dominico.

Nicole Kasinskas pleaded guilty in 2005 and was sentenced to 37½ years in prison.

Councilors Andru Volinsky, D-Concord, and Michael Cryans, D-Hanover, voted in favor of holding a hearing on the request.

Councilors Debora Pignatelli, D-Nashua, Ted Gatsas, R-Manchester, and Russell Prescott, R-Kingston, opposed it.

Requests from convicted offenders to commute a sentence or grant a pardon are routinely turned down.

Two weeks ago, the council tabled this request to review the lengthy file on the case.

Volinsky had said he could support a hearing to explore whether Kasinskas had been a victim of domestic abuse prior to the crime.

Pignatelli noted the murder occurred in her district.

“I am not going to vote in favor of this commutation right now for Ms. Kasinskas,” Pignatelli said two weeks ago.

“She has acquitted herself well while in prison and I commend her for that. I can also see a time when I might consider a commutation for her sentence, but for me that time is not right now.”

Kasinskas testified against her former boyfriend, William Sullivan, who brutally beat Dominico with a baseball bat and then stabbed her 40 times while her daughter was at a nearby 7-Eleven convenience store, prosecutors said.

Kasinskas admitted she went to the scene soon after the murder and stepped over her mother’s body to fetch a cloth to help clean up the blood.

Prosecutors said Nicole Kasinskas and Sullivan murdered Dominico because she refused to let the two teenagers live together. Sullivan was convicted of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison.

Will Delker, the senior assistant attorney general who prosecuted Kasinskas’ case, said she had two and a half years taken off her sentence for furthering her education. Terms of the deal allowed her to seek a further reduction after serving two-thirds of her sentence, which won’t be until 2031.

Delker is now a superior court judge.

https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/council-rejects-bid-to-commute-murderers-sentence/article_940f36f9-1e7a-5229-aa2c-46872956ebe3.html

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