Not a very auspicious beginning for the new owner of the Globe.
"‘He went back and finished the job’; Mother of Jennifer Martel critical of police decision to free Jared Remy on bail" by David Abel, Eric Moskowitz and Todd Feathers | Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent, August 16, 2013
WALTHAM – He was in their grasp and then he was gone. Jared W. Remy was arraigned in Waltham District Court Wednesday on charges of slamming Jennifer Martel’s face into a mirror in their townhouse. But prosecutors declined to seek bail, allowing him to leave the court with nothing more than an order not to abuse Martel, with whom he lived and had a 4-year-old daughter.
The following night, police were called back to the townhouse in Waltham, where they found Remy covered in blood and Martel, his girlfriend, slashed to death beside a pink tricycle and other toys on their patio.
“If they had kept him, maybe my daughter would be alive today,” Martel’s mother, Patty, said in an interview. “But he went back and finished the job.”
On Friday, the top Middlesex prosecutor defended the decision to not seek bail for Remy earlier in the week.
“On Wednesday, a [bail] request was made based on the information that we had on Wednesday,” said Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan. “Obviously and tragically, there is different information today, Friday morning.’’
Friends and relatives said Martel, 27, an aspiring teacher who worked at a nearby Market Basket to provide for her daughter, had been trying to extricate herself from what she told them had become an abusive relationship with Remy, the son of famed Boston Red Sox player and broadcaster Jerry Remy.
“I talked to her on Wednesday; she said she was planning her escape,” said Patty Martel, who on Friday was driving from her home in Virginia to Massachusetts. “It started off she was very happy with him, but, as time went on, he showed his true colors, and it got worse and worse.”
“He would degrade her, say horrible things,” Jennifer’s grandfather, Richard Martel Sr., said in an interview at his home in Fall River. “Jared was this way for years, and no one ever did anything.”
There were many warnings signs, including a history of violence against women, aggression, and steroid abuse, friends and family said. A close friend and neighbor, Kristina Hill, called Remy “very controlling” and “constantly smothering her, only wanting her to be with him.”
“He would go on a rage off the smallest thing,” Hill said. “She wanted to leave and was trying to do what was best for her daughter.”
In Waltham District Court Friday, prosecutors said Remy, 34, attacked Martel in their kitchen, living room, and on a stairway before pinning her to the ground of the patio, where he stabbed her repeatedly, in the view of several neighbors.
That must have been a horrifying thing to see.
At least one neighbor in the Windsor Village apartment complex tried to pull the burly Remy off Martel, but was driven back when Remy began trying to strike him with the knife, Assistant Middlesex District Attorney Lisa McGovern said.
“Great force and great effort was made by this defendant in stabbing Ms. Martel over and over and over again,’’ McGovern said, in what she called a “protracted struggle.”
Benjamin Ray, a resident of the complex, said he tried to help Martel, but declined to be specific because of the ongoing homicide investigation.
“It’s not an easy thing to watch; it’s not an easy thing to try and stop,’’ said Ray. “I did what I could to stop it. And it wasn’t enough.”
In court, McGovern said that when Waltham police arrived after numerous 911 calls, Remy was shirtless and his socks were stained with Martel’s blood. He held his hands over his head and surrendered to the officers without incident.
Their daughter was at home during the attack, said Ryan, the district attorney, who added that the girl is now in the custody of the Department of Children and Families....
According to the docket at Waltham District Court, Martel obtained an emergency restraining order against Remy at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, which remained in effect until Wednesday when the courthouse opened.
But she did not appear in court Wednesday, and the restraining order expired.
“Because Ms. Martel elected not to extend the restraining order and did not come to court on Wednesday morning’’ Remy was released, McGovern said.
Patty Martel said her daughter did not press to renew the restraining order at the request of the Remy family. Jennifer had spoken to Remy’s mother, who begged her not to file any kind of complaint because it would ruin Remy’s life; she also told Jennifer they would protect her, Patty Martel said.
“Every time Jennifer had problems she would call them,” she said.
The Remys could not be reached Friday.
Even without Jennifer Martel’s cooperation, prosecutors could have asked that Remy be held under the state’s dangerousness law, which was enacted in the early 1990s to give prosecutors a tool in the fight against domestic violence. Middlesex prosecutors did use that law when Remy was charged in 2005 with kicking, punching, and dragging his former girlfriend, which led to his being held for at least 81 days at Middlesex jail, according to court records.
On Friday, prosecutors acknowledged openly that Remy had a long criminal history, but did not say whether they were aware of that history on Wednesday.
Remy has been prosecuted at least 14 times in Waltham court since 1998, according to Waltham District Court records. At least one of those cases involved a third woman he is accused of assaulting.
In 2009, the Globe reported that Remy and a second member of the Red Sox security staff were implicated in steroid use, a disclosure that led Major League Baseball to open an investigation into the alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs during the team’s 2008 pennant race.
Both Remy and the second man were fired by the Red Sox; this week, Remy listed his employer as a company founded by his father.
Remy acknowledged to the Globe that he has been a steroid user and admitted beating up a former girlfriend in 2005. It is unclear whether he has a job.
A former housemate of Martel’s, Barbara Manney, said in a phone interview that Martel was aware of Remy’s steroid use, but did not see it as a red flag.
At the time, seven years ago, “they were in the honeymoon period, and things were good,” said Manney, who lived with Martel in Taunton.
Patty Martel said her daughter was very outgoing and independent, and family members said that could be why Jennifer Martel did not ask for their help.
“She always said she could take care of herself,” Patty Martel said. “. . . That’s the type of person she was. She didn’t want to burden us with it.”
Jennifer Martel’s sister-in-law, Andrea Martel, who also lives in Virginia, said: “We just never suspected he was abusing her. We just thought he was controlling of her. She told us not to worry.”
At the Market Basket where Jennifer Martel worked as an assistant manager more than 30 hours a week while studying at an online university to be a teacher, colleagues were mourning....
“It’s been a trying day,” John Garon, the front-end manager said. “There’s been a lot of crying eyes.”
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"Jared Remy’s life: Few high points, years of trouble" by Marcella Bombardieri | Globe Staff, August 17, 2013
He is a bodybuilder of menacing, steroid-enhanced proportions with a lengthy rap sheet for domestic violence. And yet when Jared W. Remy welcomed two Boston Globe reporters into his Waltham living room in July 2009, he proved a friendly, gregarious host in the midst of an apparently happy domestic moment with his girlfriend, Jennifer Martel, and their 10-month-old daughter.
Remy held his daughter in his lap and played with their Chihuahua, Buddy. The computer screensaver flashed a series of family photos while the flat-screen TV — which he bought after selling a World Series ring on eBay for $18,500 — was tuned to Nickelodeon.
The couple talked about plans to get married, to get a new puppy. Martel, a petite brunette, was planning to take college classes, and Remy wanted to become a personal trainer. Martel spoke with pride about the budding baseball skills of Remy’s son from a previous relationship, how much she enjoyed the boy’s games.
The seemingly content household would prove to be tragically ephemeral....
The Globe Spotlight Team interviewed Remy and several of his friends while reporting on a Major League Baseball investigation into allegations of steroid use involving Remy and a co-worker on the Red Sox security staff. Both were fired in 2008.
In a conversation later that summer, there was evidence that Remy and Martel’s relationship was already rocky. Remy had grown angry about the Globe’s inquiries among former associates, and said the reporters had sparked a fight that led Martel to move out.
They are real good at doing that!
That summer, Remy candidly acknowledged having been violent toward a former girlfriend. He said severe dyslexia left him virtually illiterate and unable to go to college, so he had fallen in with the wrong crowd in younger years. He talked about generous financial support, including help with his rent, from his father, Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy....
Perhaps the clearest glimpse into Remy’s tragic, complicated life comes in a report from a psychologist that was submitted in Waltham District Court, apparently documenting his progress while on probation.
In the past, Remy exhibited impulsivity, overly aggressive responses, and “a profound difficulty distinguishing his feelings (e.g. he’d frequently confuse ‘sad’ feelings with ‘mad’ feelings)” wrote the psychologist who had seen Remy for five years.
While the psychologist lamented Remy’s refusal to take anti-anxiety medication, he said Remy had made real and substantial progress, becoming more “self-observant and more appropriately self-regulating.” And he called Remy “a devoted father.”
“Like the rest of us, Mr. Remy must be held responsible for his actions,” the psychologist concluded. “I mention the anxiety disorder here only to acknowledge that in difficult moments, Mr. Remy’s neurological/biochemical state works against him. This condition is something the vast majority of us don’t have to deal with.”
I thought there was some sort of medical privacy in Massachusetts.
Remy is the oldest of three children of Phoebe and Jerry Remy, who spent 10 years in the Major Leagues before building a career as the beloved voice of Red Sox Nation.
His therapist indicated Jared Remy attended the Gifford School in Weston, a therapeutic school for students with learning or behavioral challenges.
His criminal history in Waltham District Court goes back to 1998, when he was charged with destruction of property belonging to the mother of his son. He would soon become a frequent presence in the courthouse for charges that included possessing a hypodermic needle and hitting a woman in the head with a beer bottle at a Waltham bar in 2003. But most of the charges between 2002 and 2005 involved his then-girlfriend — assault, threats, and violating a restraining order.
He allegedly threatened to kill her at least twice.
No red flag there?
In 2004, she said she found him cutting up her clothing and pictures with scissors after a fight. The following year, he accepted responsibility for punching and kicking her until she ran to a neighbor’s house.
Remy said his steroid use did not contribute to the violence.
“I made mistakes,” he told the Globe. “That was just me getting mad and making wrong decisions.”
He apparently stayed out of trouble with the law for a number of years.
In the early 2000s, Remy began working for the Red Sox, setting up security gates, checking visitors’ bags, and walking around the ballpark making sure people had their credentials. He said his father helped him get the $11-an-hour job.
It came to an unhappy end in 2008, when a fellow Red Sox security employee, Nicholas Alex Cyr, was found asleep at the wheel driving home from a fund-raiser hosted by Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett. Police found a vial of steroids in the car, and Cyr said he bought the drugs from Remy.
The two workers told the Red Sox and Major League Baseball that they knew of no steroid use by players, but Remy told the Spotlight Team a former aide to David Ortiz had talked openly about his own steroid use while the former aide and Remy were at Gold’s Gym on Lansdowne Street.
Remy was proud of his encyclopedic knowledge of weightlifting and said he could bench 475 pounds — 100 pounds more than he estimated he would be able to lift if he had not used performance-enhancing drugs. He also said he had an injury related to his steroid use that required surgery.
A friend of his who spoke to the Globe in 2009 on condition of anonymity said Remy got into bodybuilding because he was a scrawny kid. Despite Remy’s dyslexia, the friend called him very smart.
The police report for Remy’s arrest Tuesday listed his employer as LTS Sports, a merchandising company that Jerry Remy cofounded, with initials that stand for “Life’s too short.”
It was for the beautiful Ms. Martel. Way too short.
Related: Boston Globe Ride Home
Is it because Jerry is never home?
Also see:
Stoughton Stabbing
Edwin Alemany held on $3 million bail
Video reveals bits of attack on Amy Lord
Sunday Globe Special: Alemany Was on Prescription Medications
Sure have been a tremendous amount of stabbings around here lately. Maybe we should ban knives along with the guns given the shootings in the city. I mean, a slew of drug dealing and shooting when I was told Boston was getting safer?
Speaking of denial:
"Alex Rodriguez in state of denial" by Dan Shaughnessy | Globe Columnist, August 17, 2013
He has emerged as one of the most hated people in all of America. . . the biggest fraud who ever lived.
Well, I don't know about that. He's a baseball player fer cryin' out loud!
Most folks today believe the latter, especially when we hear that “60 Minutes” is set to air a report that will reportedly establish that — in addition to being a liar and a cheat — Rodriguez is also a rat. Across the land, that makes him the worst of the worst. The lowest of the low.
How many lies did he tell that lead to the deaths of millions?
How many trillions did he steal with schemes of fraud?
“60 Minutes” is said to have evidence that A-Rod identified fellow ballplayers (including teammate Francisco Cervelli) as PED cheats when reports surfaced that Rodriguez was once again up to his eyeballs in steroids, according to “60 Minutes.”
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ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball,” the Worldwide Leader, is promoting Sunday’s game with video of A-Rod and a movie trailer-like voiceover: “This is Alex Rodriguez. He’s got more home runs than any active player, three MVPs, and the longest suspension ever looming over his head. He’s A-Rod, he’s the lightning rod, and he’s about to take the stage.’’
In other words, “Ladies and gentleman, come into the tent and see the bearded lady.’’
It is indeed a circus, complete with network-sponsored carnival barkers.
Now he is talking cable news channels.
Already caught cheating once (remember when he lied to Katie Couric?)
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Sometimes liars repeat the lie so many times, it becomes their truth....
And then there are the lies for the greater good.
Denial is a powerful thing....
It sure is, and no one is in denial more than the AmeriKan corporate media.
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Almost make me want to root for the Yankees this afternoon.
Also see:
Stoughton Stabbing
Edwin Alemany held on $3 million bail
Video reveals bits of attack on Amy Lord
Sunday Globe Special: Alemany Was on Prescription Medications
Sure have been a tremendous amount of stabbings around here lately. Maybe we should ban knives along with the guns given the shootings in the city. I mean, a slew of drug dealing and shooting when I was told Boston was getting safer?
Speaking of denial:
"Alex Rodriguez in state of denial" by Dan Shaughnessy | Globe Columnist, August 17, 2013
He has emerged as one of the most hated people in all of America. . . the biggest fraud who ever lived.
Well, I don't know about that. He's a baseball player fer cryin' out loud!
Most folks today believe the latter, especially when we hear that “60 Minutes” is set to air a report that will reportedly establish that — in addition to being a liar and a cheat — Rodriguez is also a rat. Across the land, that makes him the worst of the worst. The lowest of the low.
How many lies did he tell that lead to the deaths of millions?
How many trillions did he steal with schemes of fraud?
“60 Minutes” is said to have evidence that A-Rod identified fellow ballplayers (including teammate Francisco Cervelli) as PED cheats when reports surfaced that Rodriguez was once again up to his eyeballs in steroids, according to “60 Minutes.”
**************************
ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball,” the Worldwide Leader, is promoting Sunday’s game with video of A-Rod and a movie trailer-like voiceover: “This is Alex Rodriguez. He’s got more home runs than any active player, three MVPs, and the longest suspension ever looming over his head. He’s A-Rod, he’s the lightning rod, and he’s about to take the stage.’’
In other words, “Ladies and gentleman, come into the tent and see the bearded lady.’’
It is indeed a circus, complete with network-sponsored carnival barkers.
Now he is talking cable news channels.
Already caught cheating once (remember when he lied to Katie Couric?)
***********************
Sometimes liars repeat the lie so many times, it becomes their truth....
And then there are the lies for the greater good.
Denial is a powerful thing....
It sure is, and no one is in denial more than the AmeriKan corporate media.
--more--"
Almost make me want to root for the Yankees this afternoon.
