The murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward was a disturbing event that was caught on live TV in Virginia on August 26, 2015. According to police reports Alison Parker was a reporter who was being filed by Adam ward when Vester Lee Flanagan would walk up to the pair and opened fire killing the two WDBJ employees. Turns out Vester Lee Flanagan was recently let go by the TV station for poor conduct and he believed that the reason was that he was black and gay. After murdering Alison Parker and Adam Ward Vester Lee Flanagan would take off and would later kill himself following a standoff with police.
Six years later the video showing the murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward is still floating around which to say the least is unnerving. The family of Alison Parker is pointing at Facebook for allowing the video to be used for advertising purposes.
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The family of a slain journalist is asking the Federal Trade Commission to take action against Facebook for failing to remove online footage of her shooting death.
Andy Parker says the company is violating its own terms of service in hosting videos on Facebook and its sibling service Instagram that glorify violence.
His daughter, TV news reporter Alison Parker, and cameraman Adam Ward were killed by a former co-worker while reporting for CBS Roanoke, Virginia’s affiliate WDBJ-TV in August 2015. Video footage of the shooting — some of which was taken by the gunman — repeatedly resurfaces on Facebook and Instagram despite assurances from top executives that it will be removed, says a complaint being filed Tuesday by Parker and attorneys with the Georgetown Law Civil Rights Clinic.
“The reality is that Facebook and Instagram put the onus on victims and their families to do the policing of graphic content — requiring them to relive their worst moments over and over to curb the proliferation of these videos,” says the complaint.
The complaint says Facebook is engaging in deceptive trade practices by violating its own terms of service and misrepresenting the safety of the platform and how hard it is for users to get harmful content removed.
Facebook didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
Andy Parker previously worked with the Georgetown law clinic to file a similar FTC complaint against Google and its YouTube service. The FTC doesn’t typically disclose whether or not it has decided to investigate a complaint.
“I wanted people to know some history of Alison and her accomplishments and the little things that she did that people didn’t know. I mean, the viewers around here saw her every day. They saw her smiling face, but there’s a lot more there,” Parker told WDBJ before the book’s release. “I wanted people to know about the Emmy she won, the Edward R Murrow she won and the way she touched people. The stories that I heard after that fact that I never knew about. Little acts of kindness that she did and the mentoring that she did. There were quite a few of those stories that I wanted to share with the reader.”
Cameron Herrin was sentenced to 24 years in prison for a fatal crash that took the lives of 2 people. According to court documents Cameron Herrin and John Barrineau were drag racing in Florida when Herin struck and killed Jessica Reisinger-Raubenolt and her 1-year-old daughter Lillia. John Barrineau would plead guilty and was sentenced to six years in prison. Cameron Herrin decided to fight his case and would lose and be sentenced to 24 years in prison.
A Florida judge sentenced a 21-year-old man to 24 years in prison for killing an Ohio mother and her young daughter in a 2018 traffic crash.
Hillsborough Circuit Judge Christopher Nash heard hours of testimony on Thursday before announcing his decision to send Cameron Herrin to prison.
“It’s impossible to have greater harm than occurred in this case,” the judge said.
Herrin’s family members began to weep as sheriff’s deputies placed him in handcuffs after the hearing, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
“I feel responsible for this accident,” Herrin’s mother, Cheryl Herrin, told the judge on Thursday. “If I could, I would step in front of Cameron, and I would accept the punishment you might render.”
Herrin hit Jessica Reisinger-Raubenolt and her 1-year-old daughter Lillia with the Mustang he’d received for his high school graduation two days earlier. They were visiting Tampa from Jeromesville, Ohio.
He was heading to a gym on the morning of May 23, 2018. Witnesses later told investigators that Herrin and his friend John Barrineau, who was driving a Nissan, appeared to be racing on Tampa’s Bayshore Boulevard. Police said Reisinger-Raubenolt, 24, was pushing her daughter in a stroller when Herrin’s car hit them.
Barrineau also pleaded guilty and is serving a six-year prison sentence, WFTS reported.
Prosecutors presented evidence that the Mustang topped 100 mph (160 kph) moments before the crash, rapidly decelerating to 30 and 40 mph (48 and 64 kph) at the time of impact.
David Raubenolt spoke for nearly an hour, telling the court that his wife loved children and was a parent who passed out notes to airplane passengers, apologizing if their child started to cry. He said he sweats when he enters his daughter’s room, where her crib remains untouched.
“It is critical for you to understand that you’ve created everlasting pain and depths of sorrow,” he said.
When people think of prison inmates whose face is covered by tattoos the first one to come to mind is Curtis Allgier. Curtis Allgier came to prominence when he appeared on the old prison show on MSNBC called Lockup where he attempted to justify his white nationalist background.
However Curtis Allgier would once again come to the forefront when he was escorted from the prison to a hospital to check out a medical problem when he would kill a correctional officer and go the run. Curtis Allgier managed to delay his sentencing for years by acting as his own lawyer and his outlandish actions within the courtroom.
However in the end Curtis Allgier would receive a life in prison sentence without possibility of parole. Curtis Allgier rejected his white nationalist background and was engaged to a Hispanic woman
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Offender Number: 143353 Offender Name: CURTIS MICHAEL ALLGIER DOB: Sat, 25 Aug 1979 Height: 6 Feet 1 Inches Weight: 190 Sex: M Location: N/A Housing Facility: N/A Parole Date: N/A Aliases:CRUTIS MICHAEL ALLGEIR CURTIS MICHAEL ALLGIER FACE WOOD
Curtis Allgier is not within the Utah prison sentence. Chances are due to his high profile case and the fact he murdered a prison guard means he is being housed out of State
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Utah inmate accused of killing a guard during a medical appointment said he had run out of hope and couldn’t see a future beyond prison, according to an Oregon tattoo artist who talked to him just a week earlier.
“He told me, ‘I don’t feel like I have anything left to live for,”‘ Kira Diamond told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Portland.
Diamond said she and Curtis Allgier exchanged letters and had almost weekly telephone conversations. She first contacted him last year after seeing him on an MSNBC program talking about prison life and tattoos, which include a swastika and “skin head” on his forehead.
Utah Department of Corrections officer Stephen Anderson, 60, was shot in the head with his own gun Monday while trying to prevent Allgier from escaping during a visit to a University of Utah clinic, police said.
Allgier fled, stole a car and led police on a high-speed chase before being captured inside an Arby’s restaurant.
In a round of media interviews Wednesday, Allgier, 27, admitted that he was trying to escape but denied pulling the trigger. He said the gun just “went off” during a struggle with Anderson.
At a news conference Thursday, Anderson’s family said their Mormon beliefs left them with no ill will toward Allgier, but they found his remarks “alarming.”
“At the same time, we have full trust in the police that they will satisfy the case,” cousin Mark Anderson said.
Anderson’s funeral is planned for Friday in Bluffdale.
Allgier is in the Salt Lake County jail awaiting charges, which could come Thursday. A telephone message left with defense attorney Michael Peterson was not immediately returned.
Allgier was in state prison for a parole violation on convictions for burglary and escape. Earlier this month, he was sentenced to nearly nine years in federal prison for a gun crime. His wife has also filed for divorce, Diamond said.
“He’s really been overwrought. Just really sad. You can only take so much loss in your life,” she said.
Diamond said she and Allgier talked about routine matters in letters and phone calls.
“We talked about our lives, what he wanted to do with his life,” she said. “He talked about construction, building houses, about wanting to have a family – normal stuff that anybody would want. Nothing grandiose or unrealistic.”
A Utah inmate has pleaded guilty to killing a prison guard in 2007 to avoid the death penalty.
Curtis Allgier had been charged in 3rd District Court with capital murder for the June 25, 2007 killing of 60-year-old Stephen Anderson. Authorities said Allgier grabbed the guard’s gun and shot him during a medical visit outside of prison.
The 32-year-old Allgier and prosecutors agreed he will serve life without the possibility of parole. The death penalty was withdrawn on Wednesday.
Allgier also pleaded guilty to first-degree felony counts of disarming a peace officer, aggravated escape, aggravated robbery, and second-degree felony possession of a firearm by a restricted person.
He pleaded no contest to three counts of first-degree felony attempted aggravated murder.
The movie Alpha Dog was based on the Nicholas Markowitz murder which was ordered by Jesse James Hollywood in 2000. In this article on My Crime Library we will take a closer look at the real story behind Alpha Dog and where Jesse James Hollywood and the rest are now
Jesse James Hollywood Early Years
Jesse James Hollywood was born in 1980 in Los Angeles California to Jack and Laurie Hollywood. Jesse James was a good athlete and a stand out baseball player during his school years however a coach would describe him as highly emotional. Jesse James Hollywood would be expelled from school and would need to transfer to another high school. However Jesse James Hollywood athletic dreams would come to a halt due to a back and leg injury. Jesse James would begin to sell drugs in 1998 or 1999.
Jesse James Hollywood Drug Dealing
When Jesse James Hollywood began to sell drugs he recruited a number of friends to help expand his network including Benjamin Markowitz and Jesse Rugge. Soon Jesse James drug network began to grow and was bringing in good money however he was having a problem with Benjamin Markowitz who owed him over $35,000.
Nicholas Markowitz Murder
According to court papers Jesse James Hollywood, Jesse Rugge and William Skidmore were driving around looking for Benjamin Markowitz with no such luck however they came across Nicholas Markowitz who was fifteen years old at the time and they decided to grab him hoping to entice his brother to meet with Hollywood. The three would bring Nicholas to Santa Barbara where he was left with Jesse Rugge while Hollywood would return to Los Angeles.
This is when the kidnapping turned odd as Nicholas Markowitz was given drugs and alcohol and brought to a number of parties where numerous people saw him. Why he did not ask for help is still not understood.
Eventually Jesse James Hollywood realized that kidnapping is not seen well by the California court system and told Ryan Hoyte (who also owed Hollywood money) to murder the fifteen year old Nicholas Markowitz.
Nicholas Markowitz would be brought to a remote location where a grave had already been dug by Graham Pressley. Nicholas was hit over the head by a shovel and shot multiple times by Ryan Hoyte. The gun was thrown into the grave and dirt was used to cover the body and murder weapon.
Jesse James Hollywood Aftermath
Jesse James Hollywood would flee Los Angeles shortly after the murder and in the end would end in a small town in Brazil where he remained on the run for five years. Eventually Jesse James Hollywood would be arrested and extradited back to the United States where he would be convicted in the murder and kidnapping of Nicholas Markowitz where he would be sentenced to life in prison without parole. As of 2021 Jesse James Hollywood is incarcerated at the RJ Donovan Correctional Facility. Jesse James Hollywood was played by Emile Hirsch
Ryan Hoyt recieved the most severe penalty as he was convicted of murder and kidnapping and would be sentenced to death. As of 2021 Ryan Hoyt remains on California Death Row. Ryan Hoyt was portrayed by Shawn Hatosy in Alpha Dog
Jesse Rugge who befriended Nicholas Markowitz and told the fifteen year old he was safe would be convicted of murder and kidnaping would be sentenced to life in prison however he was eligible for parole after seven years. In the end Jesse Rugge would be released from prison after serving 11 years. Jesse Rugge was portrayed by Justin Timberlake in Alpha Dog
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Jesse Rugge (pictured), convicted on charges of aggravated kidnapping in connection with the killing of 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz 13 years ago, was released from Chino prison after serving 11 years of a life sentence. The state parole board voted to release Rugge over the objections of Governor Jerry Brown, Santa Barbara prosecutors, and Susan Markowitz, the victim’s mother.
Rugge was one of five young men arrested and convicted for the shooting masterminded by Jesse James Hollywood, a small-time San Fernando Valley pot dealer who ordered the kidnapping after Markowitz’s older brother ripped him off in a drug deal. Prosecutors alleged that Rugge was more intimately involved in the killing but could never prove it. Susan Markowitz reminded the 12 parole board officers that Rugge had initially told investigators that he had bound her son’s wrists with duct tape and had helped bury him after he’d been shot in the face at a location near Lizard’s Mouth. But those admissions were ruled inadmissible by Judge William Gordon because the investigator had suggested Rugge could face the death penalty if he didn’t confess. Rugge has never repeated those admissions, and during his trial he testified that he had left the group after they’d arrived at Lizard’s Mouth and had no idea that a murder was in the making.
Speaking to the parole boardmembers, Rugge said he took responsibility for Markowitz’s death because his role in the kidnapping precipitated the chain of events that led to the murder. Ron Zonen, who prosecuted Rugge and the other four defendants, termed the admission “shallow and cynical,” and he objected that Rugge has never really acknowledged the depth of his involvement. According to state prison records, Rugge — now 33 — had been a model prisoner, had taken numerous classes, completed his GED, and participated in AA meetings. Rugge had come up for release several times prior, but he had always been turned down. Hollywood was convicted of ordering Markowitz killed and was sentenced to life. Ryan Hoyt, the actual triggerman, was sentenced to death. One of Hoyt’s attorneys was disbarred for professional misconduct shortly after his conviction. Whether Hoyt received competent representation will be the subject of lengthy appeals.
Julia Enright was charged in the brutal murder of Brandon Chicklis of Westminster in which his body was found beside a New Hamshire highway. According to early reports police would find Brandon Chicklis blood at Julia Enright parent’s property in Massachusetts. The two reportedly dated for awhile and no known motive has been made public. Julia Enright was featured in a documentary featuring women who were awaiting trial in Massachusetts that I will include below. Julia Enright was arrested in 2019 however due to COVID her trial has been postponed numerous times. Julia Enright trial has started in October 2021. Julia Enright would be convicted of 2nd degree murder
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A 21-year-old Ashburnham woman accused of murdering a former high school classmate was ordered held without bail after pleading not guilty Thursday morning in Worcester Superior Court.
Julia Enright of 171 Packard Hill Road, Ashburnham was indicted Dec. 21 on a charge of first-degree murder in the slaying of 20-year-old Brandon Chicklis of Westminster on or about June 23 in Ashburnham.
Accompanied by her lawyer, Louis M. Badwey, Ms. Enright entered a not-guilty plea at Thursday’s arraignment.
Assistant District Attorney Terry J. McLaughlin told Judge Janet Kenton-Walker that he and Mr. Badwey were in agreement that Julia Enright be held without bail without prejudice, which would allow for a future bail hearing in the case. The judge held Ms. Enright without bail without prejudice and continued her case to Feb. 28.
Mr. McLaughllin told Judge Kenton-Walker Thursday that the death of Mr. Chicklis was ruled a homicide and that he suffered multiple stab wounds. He said an analysis of the victim’s cellphone led investigators to Ms. Enright’s home and also showed the phone was at that address on June 23.
He said Julia Enright gave police varying accounts of her activities on June 23 and eventually said she and the victim had spent a good part of the day at her home. According to court records, she told investigators she and Mr. Chicklis had been drinking and that he left to buy drugs and never returned.
Mr. Chicklis and Ms. Enright both graduated in 2015 from Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical High School in Fitchburg.
A judge has denied a defense motion to suppress evidence seized by investigators in searches of an Ashburnham murder suspect’s car and house.
The challenged evidence included bloodstains that prosecutors say were found in Julia Enright’s Toyota Prius and linked her to the stabbing death last year of her former high school classmate, 20-year-old Brandon Chicklis of Westminster.
Julia Enright 22, of 171 Packard Hill Road, Ashburnham, is awaiting trial in Worcester Superior Court on a first-degree murder charge in the slaying.
Chicklis left his Westminster home on June 23, 2018, and was reported missing the next day, after he did not arrive at his father’s house in New Hampshire. His car, unlocked and with the keys inside, was found on June 29, 2018, in a Hannaford Supermarket parking lot on Route 202 in Rindge, New Hampshire. His decomposed body, wrapped in blankets and trash bags, was discovered about six miles away, on the side of Route 119 in Rindge, on July 10, 2018.
He had suffered multiple stab wounds and his death was ruled a homicide.
As part of their investigation, state police detectives obtained call detail records for the victim’s cellphone, which revealed that Chicklis had been at 171 Packard Hill Road in Ashburnham from 11:30 a.m. through 3 p.m. on June 23, 2018. There was no further activity on the phone after that date.
On July 13, 2018, during questioning by police, Julia Enright gave varying accounts of what occurred on June 23, 2018, ultimately admitting that Chicklis had been to her house that day, according to court records. She related that she and Chicklis smoked marijuana and drank alcohol on the day in question and were intimate in his car, according to court records. She further stated that Chicklis left to buy cocaine and never returned, the records show.
Enright reportedly told police that she and Chicklis dated and had a sexual relationship when they were in high school and that they had recently been communicating “off and on.”
Her car was seized by police on July 13, 2018, after she drove herself to the Ashburnham police station at the request of investigators. The seizure came after Trooper Shawn Murphy said he walked around the Prius looking for any dents or damage and saw red or brown stains on the floor mat behind the driver’s seat that he believed could be blood. A briefcase or computer bag was also seen in the backseat.
Police later obtained a search warrant for the vehicle. A cutting was taken from one of the stains on the floor mat, after a confirmatory test for blood was positive, and the cutting was sent for DNA processing. The genetic profile generated from the bloodstain was consistent with Chicklis’ DNA profile, according to court records.
A laptop computer that was in the car was seized.
Enright’s lawyer, Louis M. Badwey, filed a motion to suppress evidence obtained as a result of the seizure of the car, as well as a consent search of Enright’s home. The defense lawyer contended the seizure of the vehicle was not legally justified because the requirements for a plain view seizure had not been met and and that the consent to search Enright’s bedroom that was given by Enright and her father, John, was conditional on Enright being present during the search.
Regarding the seizure of the car, Badwey maintained it would have been impossible for Trooper Murphy to see the the stains from outside the Prius as he testified during an Aug. 26 hearing on the motion.
Judge Jane E. Mulqueen denied the motion in a nine-page ruling issued Oct. 11.
According to court records, the search of the bedroom turned up what Trooper Matthew Prescott described as “numerous documents, notebooks and business cards with Julia’s picture on it which indicated that Julia is a ‘dominatrix’ and participated in activities related to ‘BDSM’ with persons that met her and paid for these services.” A dominatrix is a woman who subjects her masochistic sexual partner or partners to bondage or the infliction of ritualistic punishments.
Notes detailing Enright’s relationship with Chicklis were also found, according to an affidavit authored by Prescott. She allegedly wrote that her relationship with Chicklis was “Damn near therapeutic” and “nearly a kismesis.”
“I can be mean and rude to him or kind and he’ll initiate a warm hug and invite me back soon after,” one of the notes found allegedly stated.
Ms. Enright also wrote in a notebook about her fantasy of killing someone, according to Prescott’s affidavit.
“She wrote, ‘I daydream about it on occasion. I just have this insatiable curiosity to kill a person.’ The note indicated that she wanted to cure the world of overpopulation. Julia was asked about the notes and she acknowledged writing them, however she attributed them to a creative writing class,” Prescott said in his affidavit.
Mulqueen ruled that the police observations of suspected bloodstains in the back of Enright’s car, coupled with the knowledge that Chicklis’ last known location was at her house and that he had been stabbed multiple times, provided probable cause to search the vehicle. She said she credited the testimony of Murphy and other investigators that they were able to view the stains from outside of the car.
The judge further found that the evidence elicited at the hearing on the motion did not support the defendant’s argument that both she and her father placed limitations on their consent to search her bedroom. John Enright’s written consent contained no limitations, according to Mulqueen’s ruling, and Enright’s comments to police about her needing to “be there” were “clearly an expression that she needed to be in the house and her bedroom to take a shower and get ready to leave for New York” and were “not intended as a limitation on her consent to search her room,” Mulqueen wrote.
Prosecutors have said that Chicklis’ blood was also found in a treehouse adjacent to the Enright property. According to Prescott’s affidavit, the treehouse appeared to have been recently cleaned when it was examined by police on July 14, 2018. “There appeared to be a new piece of carpeting on the floor and handles attached to the walls near all four corners low to the floor, presumably used to attach restraint devices,” Prescott wrote.
The neighbor who owned the property where the treehouse was located told investigators she had been in the treehouse in April 2018. She said she planned to clean it out for use by her children and removed the carpeting that was present. She also said she saw no handles in the treehouse at that time.
When questioned by police, Enright’s boyfriend, John Lind, said he and Enright had spent time in the treehouse in recent months and that they would cut each other there and smear blood over each other’s bodies, according to Prescott’s affidavit. Lind related that the treehouse needed to be cleaned because he had defecated in it during sexual activity with Enright, the affidavit states.
Investigators said they found a receipt from Home Depot for a piece of carpeting purchased on June 26, 2018. “The video and transaction data was obtained from Home Depot and it shows Julia Enright purchasing the carpeting. She appeared to be alone,” Prescott wrote.
Julia Enright, who has pleaded not guilty, remains in custody without bail. A trial date has not been set in her case.
The boyfriend of Julia Enright, an Ashburnham woman accused of murdering an ex-classmate in 2018, told a judge Monday he intends to invoke the Fifth Amendment on most questions prosecutors seek to ask at trial.
The man, John Lind, told Worcester Superior Court Judge Daniel M. Wrenn he would only answer questions about his work and school background if called to the stand.
Lind, who has not been charged with a crime, allegedly told investigators that carpeting Enright purchased several days after the murder was needed because of defecation that took place during a sex act between the two.
Prosecutors allege Julia Enright actually purchased carpeting to cover up traces of blood in a treehouse where she murdered 20-year-old Brandon Chicklis of Westminster on June 23, 2018
They allege Julia Enright, a phlebotomist who allegedly had a side business as a dominatrix, lured Chicklis to a treehouse near her home and murdered him to satisfy a growing urge to kill.
Chicklis’ body was found wrapped in trash bags and blankets on the side of Route 119 in Rindge, New Hampshire, July 10, 2018, about two weeks after he was last seen alive.
Assistant District Attorney Terry J. McLaughlin read off a long list of questions in court Monday that he would like to ask Lind, including where he was on June 23.
McLaughlin indicated to Wrenn that Enright had texted Lind around the time of the alleged killing and told him there could be a “surprise.”
He also said the two had discussed “bloodplay” in a sexual context and have talked extensively in jailhouse recordings.
Wrenn, after conducting a hearing with Lind and speaking to his lawyer at sidebar, ruled that he had a valid Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination as to most of the areas of questioning.
Wrenn said he would reserve a ruling on questions about jailhouse calls until Lind’s lawyer, Kevin Larson, had a chance to listen to the calls in question and advise his client.
Julia Enright who was 21 at the time of the killing, was a phlebotomist with a side business as a dominatrix, prosecutors have said. She allegedly journaled about an “insatiable curiosity” of killing someone, as well as about her sexual proclivities and other topics prosecutors argue jurors should hear.
Entries discussed Monday include one McLaughlin said Enright wrote about a failed plot to get pregnant and have an abortion in order to bring the fetus home.
Julia Enright had a fixation with bones, McLaughlin said — she would decay dead animals in bags to use their bones as art — and journaled about a desire to obtain bones of a fetus.
According to McLaughlin, Julia Enright got pregnant and had an abortion at Planned Parenthood, but failed at attempts to “bribe” the organization to give her the remains.
The abortion, McLaughlin said, occurred just eight days before the murder. He told Wrenn that prosecutors believe the failed plot is relevant to Enright’s state of mind — and possibly motive — prior to her alleged crime.
nright’s lawyer, Louis M. Badwey, disagreed, saying prosecutors have no evidence linking the abortion plot to Chicklis’ murder.
The aborted fetus was not Chicklis’, Badwey said, and referencing the episode would be unfairly prejudicial to Enright.
Julia Enright at the defense table Monday — argued that Wrenn should not admit large swaths of evidence the prosecution is seeking to offer.
McLaughlin has sought to introduce evidence that shows Julia Enright had a fascination with death, an interest in dissecting animals and sexual interests that involved cutting and “bloodplay.”
Badwey argued there is no evidence that Chicklis — who Enright dated in high school — was interested in such things. He said the evidence indicates that Chicklis was a young man who had been trying to rekindle his relationship with Enright, not a person with interest in her alternative sexual practices.
McLaughlin argued that Enright’s journal entries speak to motive and her state of mind around the time of the murder. On the subject of cutting, he noted that Chicklis had been stabbed as many as 13 times.
Another point of disagreement was a journal entry in which Julia Enright allegedly wrote that she wanted to “murder and hide in the woods.”
Badwey, after consulting with Julia Enright, said it was his understanding the entry was written in 2016 at a time in which the woman was upset with her father and a prior boyfriend.
“Both this fellow and her father are still alive,” Badwey said, again arguing inclusion would be unfair
Also unfair, Badwey argued, would be videos the prosecution is trying to offer showing Enright cutting up animals, including a deer, and “playing with” their insides.
Badwey argued any interest in biology or taxidermy Enright had is irrelevant to the case because, he said, Chicklis’ body was not found “disemboweled.”
At one point in her journal, lawyers said Monday, Enright wrote that while she wished to murder a person, she would “never” look to kill an animal unless it was for mercy.
Other journal entries discussed Monday related to Enright’s psychological status.
In some of the writings, lawyers said, Enright discussed self-diagnosing herself as a sociopath or with some other condition — evidence McLaughlin argued could be relevant depending on the results of ongoing psychological examinations.
Julia Enright was scheduled to be examined Monday by a psychiatrist for the prosecution. Wrenn and the lawyers have said rulings regarding evidence could be influenced by the findings, and by the kind of testimony the defense elects to offer on the subject of mental health.
Badwey has argued for a cautious approach in which Wrenn excludes evidence before trial, and then potentially admits it should it be deemed relevant during the proceedings.
Arguments regarding evidence are expected to continue later this week. Aside from the journal entries, prosecutors have several key pieces of evidence, including DNA matches for Chicklis’ blood in the treehouse and in Enright’s car.
Julia Enright was found guilty of second-degree murder Monday in the 2018 killing of a man in Massachusetts.
The verdict was announced around 11 a.m. Monday in Worcester Superior Court after roughly two days of deliberations. The case had gone to the jury on Nov. 23 following 10 days of testimony.
Enright is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 18.
Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said she will be given a life sentence with the possibility of parole. He also said his office hasn’t ruled out charging an accomplice in this case.
Enright, 24, was accused of luring 20-year-old Brandon Chicklis to a treehouse near her Ashburnham home to kill him. Prosecutors said it was a gruesome gift for her boyfriend, with whom she shared dark passions.
She admitted to stabbing Chicklis several times, but said it was in self-defense after Chicklis sexually assaulted her.
Prosecutors pointed to her time as a professional dominatrix, as well as entries in her journal, where she wrote, “I have an insatiable curiosity to kill a person,” and mentioned a fascination with death, using the skeletons of dead animals to build what she called “bone art.”
Prosecutors also brought up text messages to her boyfriend before the killing, asking, “Do you think we could add bubbles to a blood bath?”
Enright told the jury all of that was fantasy, an attempt to seem dark and foreboding. She said she did intend to have sex with Chicklis that day, but changed her mind, and he tried to force her.
In one journal entry, Enright wrote about her disappointment that her boyfriend didn’t seem to like her “gift.” Prosecutors said that gift was killing Chicklis, but she said the gift was a skeleton stolen from a crypt.
Enright and her boyfriend wrapped Chicklis’ body in a tarp and duct tape, and dumped it in Rindge, New Hampshire. It was found a few weeks later
Investigators said Julia Enright killed Chicklis by a treehouse near her home in Ashburnham, which police were able to trace from the victim’s cell phone records.
Chicklis’ blood was found on the stairs to the treehouse, inside it and under it.
A family member of Chicklis told NBC10 Boston that Enright and Chicklis once dated and remained friends even after breaking up. Prosecutors said the two had been classmates at Montachusett Regional Vocational High School in Fitchburg.
Julia Enright, 24, was sentenced to the maximum penalty under Massachusetts law on Friday for the 2018 murder of 20-year-old Brandon Chicklis, a former classmate and boyfriend.
Worcester Superior Court Judge Daniel Wrennsentenced the defendant to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years after hearing victim impact statements from nine of Chicklis’s family and friends, according to MassLive’s court reporterErin Tiernan.
One after another, each of the nine described the hole that was left in their lives following the young man’s brutal murder. And, in turn, each asked for the judge to return the harshest penalty against Enright.
Chicklis’s mother, Trisha Edwards-Lamarche, explained her grim and daily predicament, according to reports from the courtroom.
“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?” the grieving mother told the judge.
“I love you Brandon, you’ll always be my bumble bee,” the deceased man’s grandmother, Louisa Rocha, said in court.
Chicklis was stabbed at least 10 times inside the Enright family’s Ashburnam, Mass. treehouse on June 23, 2018, the trial revealed. His body was found by a jogger on July 10, 2018 on the side of Route 119 in Rindge, New Hampshire, a town just across the state line from Massachusetts. The corpse was in an advanced state of decomposition by the time it was discovered — which became a key point of discussion during the trial due to Enright’s uncontested fixation with dead animals, decomposition, and death, in general
During trial, one witness reportedly testified the defendant would occasionally try to speed up a dead animal’s decomposition by leaving its body out in the elements and wrapped up in a tarp. Prosecutors tried to use the testimony to suggest a parallel to how Chicklis may have been treated.
In her defense, Enright told jurors her occult-adjacent interests were a side effect of her then-obsession with shock rocker Marilyn Manson.
The trial also featured some focus on the defendant’s side business as a dominatrix – much to the defense’s chagrin and prior protestations.
Enright herself lodged an unsuccessful claim that she killed Chicklis in self-defense in response to an alleged attempted sexual assault in the treehouse. Jurors didn’t accept that version of the story.
Prosecutors argued the slaying was a “gift” for John Lind, the defendant’s then-boyfriend. Lind was indicted by a Worcester County Grand Jury for accessory after the fact to murder, misleading a grand jury, and perjury earlier this year. Originally charged in December of last year, he is alleged to have shared many of the same macabre interests as the convicted woman.
Lind first made waves in the case months prior.
In October 2021, Lind pleaded the fifth during one of Enright’s pre-trial evidentiary hearings when asked to account for what, exactly, moved his girlfriend to replace part of the carpet in the treehouse. Previously, he allegedly told police the textile had been replaced due to a sex act between the two that resulted in damage from human feces
Evidence later suggested there was never any carpet in the treehouse before the murder at all. And, in the area where the carpet had allegedly been replaced, investigators found Chicklis’s blood and DNA.
“His DNA is in your treehouse,” a state trooper told Enright during her second interview with the Massachusetts State Police on the day she was arrested. “How could his DNA, his blood, be in your treehouse?”
She got up and tried to leave at that point but, from that point on, would remain in the custody of law enforcement.
As for Lind, during trial she testified he helped her get rid of the body.
“There is not a day that goes by that don’t think about this or don’t wish I could go back,” Enright said in a bid to lessen her 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.”
According to MassLive, she never said her victim’s name and only turned to slightly address his family in court on Friday.
“I want you to know how much I’ve thought about everything,” she continued. “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.”
“I won’t lie and pretend like being with my family and loved ones isn’t the only thing I want,” she went on
MA: Massachusetts Department of Correction ID Number
F81***Custody Status
In Custody Custody Detail
MCI Framingham
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