Get you started with -- what else? -- a Friday the 13th:
"Rockland husband admitted stabbing wife to death, police say" by Evan Allenand John R. Ellement | Globe staff June 12, 2014
ROCKLAND — Richard Langley stood on his porch Wednesday night and lit a cigarette as his wife lay on their front lawn bleeding to death, according to court documents. Frantic neighbors used a towel to stanch the blood pouring from the wounds in her chest, prosecutors say, and asked her who had done it.
“I did it. . . . I stabbed her,” Langley allegedly announced from the porch. “I hope the [expletive] dies.”
When police arrived minutes later, Langley was still smoking, his wife’s blood on his hands and dripping from his arm. An officer handcuffed him and walked him toward a police car. As he passed his dying wife, neighbors saw him try to kick her, prosecutors say.
“Die, [expletive], die,” he said.
On Thursday, Langley, 56, pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder in Hingham District Court and was ordered held without bail. Relatives of his wife, Patricia, 52, wept and held each other as a prosecutor described the killing. Richard Langley, stood silently and stared at the ground.
“I think it’s one of the most vicious cases I’ve seen in quite a while,” Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz said after the arraignment. “The facts are incredibly disturbing, that somebody could actually say something like that to somebody they’re married to, after a vicious altercation.”
About 10 people who identified themselves as relatives of Patricia Langley asked for privacy as they left the courtroom.
According to court documents, neighbors on Moncrief Road heard screaming at about 7:30 and saw Patricia Langley walking out of her home drenched in blood, clutching her chest, and calling for help. A couple from across the street ran out of their home and met her as she collapsed, called 911, and began pressing a towel to her chest to try to stop the bleeding.
“He stabbed me,” Patricia Langley told them, according to the documents. She said she could not breathe. “He killed me,” she repeated again and again, according to the documents.
The husband told police that as he worked on Patricia, he realized Richard Langley was on the porch lighting a cigarette and then sat down to smoke.
“Is she dead yet?” Richard Langley asked the husband, according to documents.
Langley said in a “proud and somewhat happy fashion” that he had stabbed his wife, according to the documents. When police arrived, Langley allegedly announced again that he had stabbed his wife.
Patricia Langley was rushed to South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, where she was pronounced dead.
Langley allegedly first told police that he could not remember what had happened, but then said he had become enraged after finding text messages with “sexual content” on her cellphone, according to the documents. He said he asked her how her boyfriend was and when she told him it was “none of his business,” he “flew off the handle.”
Langley said his wife came at him with a knife and that he kicked her in the stomach, took the knife, and stabbed her three times, the documents say.
Police found a trail of blood that began in the living room and ended on the lawn, according to the documents.
On Thursday afternoon, a crew dressed in blue plastic suits and face masks cleaned the inside of the home and removed what appeared to be a couch wrapped in black plastic. Workers scrubbed at the porch and driveway, and a black tent covered a patch of lawn.
At the foot of a nearby tree, someone had left a vase of flowers with a heart-shaped card that read “Tricia xo.”
Neighbors described the couple as friendly and said they had never heard fights before.
“He must have snapped or something; we don’t know,” said Tom Furlong, 77, who has lived in the neighborhood with his wife for 47 years and said he watched both Patricia and Richard Langley grow up. They had been married for about 20 years, he said.
Patricia worked as an aide for special education students at Jefferson Elementary School, a job Furlong said she excelled at.
“[Patricia] was always fun; she was always joking,” said Furlong. “They loved her down at the school. She always had a smile.”
In a statement, Rockland School Superintendent John Retchless said her death had shocked students and staff in the South Shore community.
“The whole school community is deeply saddened by the death of Patricia Langley,’’ he said in a statement. “She was a wonderful person and a valued employee. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family.’’
According to the court documents, two daughters lived at home but were not in the house at the time of the attack. Neighbors said they were adults.
Furlong said that whenever he saw the Langleys, they talked about their children. They were happy people, he said. Patricia, he said, had a tiny dog she loved to take for walks and post about on Facebook, he said.
“It’s just a shock to everyone,” said Furlong. “Everyone thought they were getting along good.”
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I haven't watched a slasher horror film in I don't know how long. No longer find them appealing in the least.
As for the rash of stabbings and such, I'm surprised there has not been a ban knives campaign.
And speak of the devil:
"Man pleads not guilty to carrying guns near South End high school" by Zachary T. Sampson | Globe Correspondent June 12, 2014
The officers who took two guns from an 18-year-old man Wednesday outside a high school graduation in the South End were on Warren Avenue specifically because school administrators were worried about possible gang violence around the ceremony, according to a police report.
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Officers spotted Adonis Alvarez, 18, shortly after 7 p.m. near 90 Warren Ave., where families and graduates from McKinley Preparatory High School and McKinley South End Academy were trickling out from a combined graduation Wednesday evening, police said. According to the police report, school administrators “had previously expressed concern that the graduation ... would be bringing together rival gangs which have had a history of violence against each other.”
Boston police officers and a number of school safety officers were on hand to monitor activity around the ceremony. Authorities did not provide more information about the alleged gangs or the past incidents between them Thursday. A spokesman from Boston Public Schools declined to comment on the details of the incident because it is the subject of an open investigation.
“We are pleased that the police did move swiftly to bring a potential situation under control,” said the spokesman, Brian Ballou. He said Alvarez was most recently an active BPS student last year, according to department records.
Police reported they saw Alvarez waking with his arm pressed tight to his waist and his hand on his sweathshirt pocket. They said it looked like he was carrying something heavy, possibly a gun.
Alvarez allegedly approached a student, whispered something, and tugged on his sweatshirt pocket before walking away.
A plainclothes officer tried to speak to Alvarez, police said. When the teen realized who the officer was, he ran, according to police.
Officers grabbed Alvarez’s sweatshirt and brought him to the ground. They placed a handcuff on his arm before spotting a gun under his head, according to the police report. Alvarez allegedly yelled, “I have another one in my waist.”
The pistol had a bullet in its chamber, police said.
In court Thursday, Alvarez pled not guilty. He stood in gray sweatpants and a white t-shirt, shackles around the tops of his white sneakers. He had a long purple scrape on his right cheek from around his temple to near the corner of his mouth.
Alvarez’s attorney, Steven J. Topazio, said the wound was the result of his client’s struggle with police. He asked for a low cash bail, questioning the way authorities approached Alvarez with multiple officers.
“Although the police in this case may have played a very good hunch,” Topazio said, sometimes such tactics fail to pass “constitutional muster.”
Standard procedure these days, though.
A group of teenage boys who were in the courtroom most of the morning left quickly after Alvarez’s arraignment. One nodded across the room to Alvarez before walking out the door.
If he posts bail, Alvarez will have to wear a GPS monitor, obey a curfew, and stay away from the area where he was arrested.
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Let's make it a triple feature:
"Lowell man gets two years for trying to extort $20K from Boston celebrity" by Travis Andersen | Globe staff June 12, 2014
A Lowell man received a two-year prison term Thursday for trying to extort $20,000 from a Boston celebrity in 2012 and for being a felon in possession of a gun in a separate incident.
Felix Paulino, 35, tearfully asked the celebrity, whom he did not name and whom authorities have not identified, for forgiveness during a sentencing hearing in federal court in Boston.
That never helps, not in the horror movies.
“First and foremost, I would like to apologize to the victim and the victim’s family,” Paulino said, as members of his own family looked on. “He’s a great role model and a great person.”
Paulino pleaded guilty in March to the extortion and gun charges, and he said Thursday that several factors, including “drinking and drugging,” led him to commit the crimes.
“I am ashamed,” he said. “I am embarrassed by what I’ve done.”
Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. imposed the two-year term, which Paulino’s public defender, Jane F. Peachy, had recommended, along with two years of supervised release.
Peachy said that Paulino had a successful prior term of probation and that he will be able to receive drug and alcohol counseling during his supervised release, as well as to work to support his family.
Prosecutors had asked for a 30-month prison term, but Nadine Pellegrini,an assistant US attorney, made no argument for the stiffer penalty on Thursday. She told O’Toole that both sides are “not that far apart” in their recommendations.
According to court records, Paulino contacted the victim’s agent and an unidentified “cooperator” affiliated with the agent in fall 2012. Paulino claimed to have video footage of the married celebrity at a Boston nightclub “talking to several young women and attempting to lure them to his room,” records show.
See: Felix Paulino's Film
It's based on a video game?
Paulino said the star told the women that “he is a ‘player’ and they are not,” a legal filing said. He threatened to leak the video to the gossip website TMZ unless he received a $20,000 payment, according to authorities.
During one recorded conversation, the cooperator told Paulino that similar situations have “happened to us before,” and Paulino replied, “Trust me. . . . You don’t think I know that? I know that,” an affidavit said.
However, Paulino received no money and backed out of a November 2012 meeting with the cooperator at a restaurant when he saw “exterior surveillance personnel” outside, court records show.
An FBI agent later testified that the video only shows the celebrity “mingling with patrons in the club, shaking hands, and departing the club shortly thereafter.”
Separately, the gun charge was brought after authorities found a firearm in Paulino’s car when they arrested him in April 2013 on the extortion count. He said he needed the gun for protection after the former boyfriend of a woman he had been romantically involved with shot at him, according to court records and his lawyer.
Paulino was barred, as a convicted felon, from possessing a gun.
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Coming attractions:
SJC upholds suspension of Suffolk register
That is scary!
Belmont barber, 84, hangs up his scissors
Starring Johnny Depp as Frank Cannalonga?
Star witness endures 10 days of questions in lurid N.H. murder trial
I won't be reading any of them.
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
Woman arrested for allegedly stabbing another woman, setting fire to home
Looks like a story worth reading, good plot and everything, but I won't be. Time is a factor here.
