Alexandra Eckersley is a woman from New Hampshire who left her newborn in the freezing cold and wandered off. According to police reports Alexandra Eckersley would give birth to the newborn inside of a tent in New Hampshire before leaving the newborn. When she was asked the location of the newborn she refused to tell police. Eventually police were able to locate the newborn and Alexandra Eckersley would be arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child, assault, falsifying physical evidence and felony charge of reckless conduct. Alexandra Eckersley who is the adopted daughter of MLB player Dennis Eckersley which is the only reason this particular case is getting any coverage
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A judge set bail Tuesday for a homeless woman accused of giving birth in the woods and abandoning her newborn on Christmas night.
Alexandra Eckersley, 26, appeared in court by phone from a hospital and pleaded not guilty to charges including second-degree assault, endangering the welfare of a child, falsifying physical evidence and reckless conduct.
In court Tuesday, prosecutor Carl Olson requested Eckersley be held on preventative detention. He argued that she was already out on bail for a separate endangering-the-welfare-of-a-child case out of Concord and failed to appear for an October court date in that case.
“Sometimes, actions really do speak louder than words, and her actions were not of somebody seeking help,” Olson said.
According to Olson, her family said they had offered to help and give her a place to stay – if she sought out treatment – and she did not do so. Her mother said she feels the safest place for Eckersley to be is incarcerated, according to officials.
“This is an incredibly fortunate circumstance that the child was found when it was, and it didn’t delay further,” Olson said.
Defense attorney Jordan Strand argued that Eckersley should be released on personal recognizance bail and that her actions, including calling 911 after the birth, show no evidence of dangerousness.
“I think that what this affidavit shows is that someone asked for help when they needed it,” Strand said. “This is a woman who unexpectedly gave birth while she is being unhoused and living in a tent, and we don’t penalize people for being unhoused and living in a tent.”
In her order, Judge Diane Nicolosi set bail at $3,000 cash. Conditions of bail include that Eckersley cannot have direct or indirect contact with her newborn son and that she must live at a sober living facility or with her parent or another residence approved by the state or court if no agreement is reached.
Eckersley was arrested Monday. She is accused of telling first responders she gave birth to a prematurely born baby boy on a soccer field. Crews searched in the wrong area for an hour before police said she informed them of the true location of the tent, officials said.
First responders raced down a footpath in the dark to reach the child, who was described by fire officials as moving, not crying, exposed and in the cold, without a blanket and next to a bed covered in blood. The temperature was around 15-18 degrees.
According to court paperwork, Eckersley said she did not know she was pregnant, but detectives said they spoke with someone who knew Eckersley and that she told them a week prior she was at least four months pregnant.
Danielle Dauphinais has been charged in the murder of her five year old son Elijah Lewis. According to police reports Elijah Lewis was reported missing back in October 2021 and apparently he had not been seen in a month prior to that date. Along the way Danielle Dauphinais and her boyfriend Joseph Stapf were charged with intimidating witnesses and child endangerment.
In late October 2021 the body of Elijah Lewis would be found in a park in Ames Nowell State Park in Abington, Massachusetts. Now a Grand Jury has indicted Danielle Dauphinais with one count of first-degree murder for purposely causing the death of Elijah Lewis and one count of second-degree murder for causing the death of Elijah Lewis recklessly with extreme indifference to the value of human life
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The mother of a 5-year-old Merrimack boy whose body was found buried in a Massachusetts park last year has been indicted on a charge of first-degree murder.
A grand jury returned an indictment on Friday charging Danielle Dauphinais, 35, with one count of first-degree murder for purposely causing the death of Elijah Lewis and one count of second-degree murder for causing the death of Elijah Lewis recklessly with extreme indifference to the value of human life
She was also charged with three counts of tampering with witnesses.
“Every murder is difficult,” said Attorney General John Formella. “It’s especially difficult when we’re dealing with a young child. Like I said, our team has been working hard on this and will continue to work hard as the case moves forward.”
Dauphinais and her boyfriend, Joseph Stapf, were previously charged with witness tampering and child endangerment. Dauphinais has been held without bail on the earlier charges.
Elijah was first reported missing on Oct. 14, 2021, and police said he had not been seen for about a month before he was reported missing. Ten days later, a New Hampshire cadaver dog located remains in a grave covered in soil at Ames Nowell State Park in Abington, Massachusetts.
Dauphinais and Stapf were arrested in New York days before Elijah’s remains were found.
Neighbors of the home on Sunset Drive in Merrimack where Elijah lived with his mother said the new charges start to bring some closure to the case. A sign in front of a neighbor’s house asks the public to Google the case, and the residents said they want to keep the focus on Elijah.
Bill Roy said he’s moving into the house where Elijah lived and is now painting the outside of the home.
“I’m basically going to help buy it, and I’m fixing the place up,” he said. “I’m trying to clean up the misery.”
Neighbors said the house was being rented for the past few months while Dauphinais was in jail.
James Parker And Robert Tulloch would murder two Dartmouth College professors in 2001. According to court reports sixteen year old James Parker and seventeen year old Robert Tulloch decided they wanted to go to California but they needed money to complete the trip so they decided the house of two Dartmouth College professors would have what they needed.
The two teen killers went to the Zantop residence posing as students who needed to fill out a questionnaire. Apparently when Mr. Zantop told the students they should have been more prepared angered Tulloch who would stab Mr. Zantop repeatedly when he turned his back. When Mrs. Zantop came to investigate the noise she was attacked by James Parker who would stab her repeatedly. The two teens would take the wallet of Mr. Zantop and flee the premises leaving the sheath to a knife behind.
Turns out that sheath was rare and police were able to find out who bought one recently and from there the two teen killers became suspects and would be arrested a few states away. James Parker would plead guilty to second degree murder and would be sentenced to twenty five years and could be paroled after sixteen years. Robert Tulloch would also plead guilty and be sentenced to life
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ROBERT WILBERT TULLOCH
Prison Number: 75385
Term ID: 42507
Admission Date: 04/04/2002
Release Date: 3/10/2101
Location NH State Prison for Men
JAMES JENNINGS PARKER
Age: 35
Prison Number 75389
Term ID: 42512
Admission Date: 04/04/2002
Min Release Date: 5/22/2024
Max Release Date 1/24/2100
Location: NH State Prison for Men
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A Chelsea man who has served 18 years in prison after the 2001 stabbing deaths of two Dartmouth College professors will go before a Grafton County judge on Tuesday and ask to have the remainder of his 25-year sentence suspended.
James Parker, now 34, has served his time inside the New Hampshire State Prison for Men in an “exceptional manner,” including completing a master’s degree and taking on a leadership role that has led to the betterment of the entire prison community, his attorney, Cathy Green, wrote in a September motion to suspend the remaining portion of Parker’s minimum sentence.
“He made a decision that although he could never change what he had done, or diminish the pain that he caused, he would live a life going forward to atone for his actions,” Green wrote. “He chose to educate himself, but more importantly, to dedicate himself to making the prison community a better and more humane place. He provided opportunities for those who sought to spend their time positively, aiding in their rehabilitation and personal growth.”
Because Parker has served two-thirds of his sentence, state law permits him to seek such relief.
But the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office in November objected to Parker’s request, saying he already received the minimum sentence for his role in the “premeditated, brutal deaths” of Half and Susanne Zantop in their Etna home on Jan. 27, 2001.
Parker, who was 16 when he committed the crime, pleaded guilty April 4, 2002, to second-degree murder for the death of Susanne Zantop, and he agreed to testify against Robert Tulloch, who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for the killing of Half Zantop.
Tulloch, who was 17 at the time of the murders, is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole. His sentence will be examined at a three-day hearing in December after the Supreme Court ruled mandatory life sentences are unconstitutional for juvenile offenders.
Currently, Parker’s earliest release date is May 2024.
In the objection, Associate Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin recounted the days leading up to the crimes — Parker and Tulloch were bored with Chelsea and were looking for a way to get money and travel — and the crimes themselves.
“Such extraordinary relief is inappropriate in this case, given the facts of the crime the defendant committed and the lasting impacts,” he wrote. “The Zantops were not killed in self-defense or in the heat of the moment. Instead, their deaths were the results of months of detailed criminal planning that included the purchase of weapons and failed attempts to rob and kill others.”
The then-teenagers selected the Zantop home at random, went to the front door and posed as students conducting a survey before stabbing them both to death and fleeing the state. They were arrested the following month after police traced knife sheaths left behind at the Zantop home.
Parker already has been rewarded for his rehabilitation efforts in prison with a 21-month reduction in his sentence because of earned time credits, Strelzin said.
“What the Zantops experienced has to be worth far more than the few years the defendant has served and should serve in prison for what he willingly did to them,” he wrote.
State law, however, has designed a mechanism to recognize the “extraordinary behavior” of an inmate and reward him or her for it with a sentence reduction, Green wrote.
In addition to his advanced schooling, Parker completed a host of vocational training courses and contributed to life inside prison through his expertise in art, music and theater.
He painted murals that are hung throughout the prison, expanded the theater program through the facilitation of productions and directed choirs while preparing and performing concerts with the prison band.
He coached basketball and helped with other volunteer activities like job fairs, Green wrote.
Richard Bedell, an instructor at New England College, said Parker has “relentless drive and motivation,” settled for nothing “less than excellence” and made himself available to other students who needed help, she wrote.
James Brown, a lieutenant at the prison, called Parker “the most industrious individual I have observed in my 25 years working in this environment,” according to the petition.
Parker has only a few “minor” infractions on his prison record and has participated in mental health treatment and counseling, Green wrote.
Robert Kinscherff, a forensic psychologist, evaluated Parker for his risk for future criminal behavior and ruled that “Jim scores at the very low end for risk of violent behavior and reoffending,” Green wrote.
Killer in Dartmouth professors stabbing case seeks early release from prison
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James Parker Granted Parole
A man sentenced to prison for his role in the murders of two Dartmouth College professors in 2001 has been granted parole.
James Parker, 39, is serving a sentence of 25 years to life in prison for the killings of Half and Susanne Zantop in 2001.
Investigators said Parker, who was 16 at the time, and his friend Robert Tulloch, who was 17, posed as students conducting a survey when they stabbed the Zantops to death.
Parker admitted during Thursday’s hearing he had intended to kill someone that day. He later expressed how he feels now about the killings.
“I think it’s unimaginably horrible,” Parker said. “I’ve gone over it and over it, and just finding an explanation for that. I just don’t know how I could do that.”
Parker said he and Tulloch killed the Zantops as part of a plan to rob them.
“We were attempting to get money to go overseas and live some sort of life of adventure, or whatever,” he said.
He described to the board how he and Tulloch killed the couple.
“During the interview when Mr. Zantop pulled out his wallet, my codefendant and I, he attacked Mr. Zantop, and then when his wife came in, I restrained her, and then I cut her throat and she fell to the floor,” Parker said.
He acknowledged the pain that the Zantops’ loved ones suffered because of what they did.
“I know there’s not an amount of time or things that I can do to change it or alleviate any pain that I’ve caused,” Parker said.
This was his first chance at parole.
In granting parole, the board ordered that Parker have no contact with the victims’ families, that he continue his mental health treatment and that he remain free of any other disciplinary action.
Tulloch, 40, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and received a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole. He is scheduled for a resentencing hearing in June in light of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which made it unconstitutional to sentence juvenile offenders to mandatory life imprisonment without parole.
Nicole Kasinskas was sixteen when she plotted and murdered her mother in New Hampshire. According to court documents Nicole Kasinskas and her boyfriend William Sullivan conspired to kill her mother as the sixteen year old was worried her mother would not let her leave the State with her new boyfriend. On the day of the murder William Sullivan hit the woman over the head with a bat and fatally stabbed her. Nicole Kasinskas was not in the home as the murder occurred but would help clean up the evidence after it was over. This teen killer would testify against William Sullivan for a lesser sentence and in the end she would be sentenced to thirty five years to life in prison.
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Nicole Kasinskas
Inmate Number: 77869
Max Date: 7/13.2105
Location: NH Correctional Facility For Women
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the teen who plotted her mother’s murder with her Willimantic boyfriend and stepped over her mother’s body to fetch a cloth so he could wipe off the blood, was sentenced to 40 years in prison in New Hampshire Thursday.
The sentencing — described as “heart-wrenching” by one prosecutor — was held before Judge William Groff in Hillsborough County Superior Court in Nashua, N.H.
Kasinskas, 18, declined to make a statement, but wept as her mother’s fiance tearfully recalled Jeanne Dominico’s love for her daughter and how that love was repaid.
Kasinskas will likely serve 35 years or less. Two-and-a-half years were removed from the sentence because Kasinskas obtained a GED, said her lawyer, Adam Bernstein. Another 2 1/2 years will be shaved off if she completes college, he said.
Kasinskas can ask for a further reduction after serving two-thirds of the sentence, said Senior Assistant Attorney General Will Delker.
Kasinskas pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder on March 28 in exchange for testifying against her boyfriend, William Sullivan, 20.
Sullivan’s lawyers argued that he was insane at the time of Dominico’s death and have appealed his July 15 conviction. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
In handing down the sentence, Groff told Nicole Kasinskas that she is just as guilty as Sullivan, even though she didn’t carry out the murder.
“The judge said that Nicole was every bit as culpable as Billy Sullivan. [Her] sentence is not a light sentence,” Delker said. “It’s one of the longest we ever got in a case like that.”
Unhappy that Dominico wouldn’t let Kasinskas move to Connecticut with Sullivan — whom she had met through the Internet — they tried to kill her with poison, burning her in her bed and by attempting to blow up her house.
On Aug. 6, 2003, Sullivan struck up a conversation with Dominico, 43, in her Nashua living room. Then he hit her in the head with a baseball bat and stabbed her more than 40 times, using three different knives, according to testimony from his trial. All the while, Kasinskas, then 16, waited at a nearby 7-Eleven. Kasinskas testified during Sullivan’s trial that she reluctantly went into her house after Sullivan killed her mother to retrieve a cloth for him to wipe off her mother’s blood. She had to push her mother’s body with the door to get inside, she said.
Victim Advocate Jennifer Hunt, who was in the courtroom, summarized statements made by Dominico’s fiance, Christopher McGowan, and others, including Amybeth Kasinskas, Nicole’s half-sister.
In his statement, McGowan said it was hard for him to think about Kasinskas sitting in Sullivan’s car in the store’s parking lot, reading a magazine while the slaying was taking place. He said that during a cellphone conversation with Sullivan before he carried out the crime, she had heard her mother cry out: ‘Nicole, come home!”‘ McGowan said.
“If only you had,” he said.
He noted that the victim was so well-liked that a school put up a bench and planted a tree in her memory, and the city named a ball field after her
In her statement, Amybeth Kasinskas talked about how hurtful Nicole’s poor choices were, and how she loved Dominico as she would her own mother.
Nicole Kasinskas is currently incarcerated at the New Hampshire Correctional Facility For Women
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Nicole Kasinskas current release date is 2050
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