The Mortimer murder case
Yesterday (June 16) the bodies of four people were found at 2 Windsong Lane in Winchester, MA. Their names were Laura Stone Mortimer (41), her mother Ragna (sp?) Ellen Stone (64), and her children Thomas “Finn” Mortimer V (4) and Charlotte Mortimer (2). According to Middlesex County D.A. Gerry Leone, the crime scene was especially horrifying, and the victims appear to have died by blunt force trauma or sharp objects. Laura’s husband and the children’s father, Thomas Mortimer IV (43) was arrested this afternoon in Western Mass. According to Leone, he left notes in the home confessing to the four killings.
This case reminds me a little bit of the Entwistle murders 4 years ago. Both involved a husband allegedly killing his wife and child(ren) in a “nice” suburban neighborhood where you wouldn’t expect a crime to take place. Entwistle had been unemployed for months leading up to the murders. Mortimer was unemployed for a while too, but he had recently landed a job as a sales executive at M&R Consultants Corp. Neither Entwistle nor Mortimer had any previous criminal record. And both cases are receiving a lot of media attention.
Mortimer is set to be arraigned tomorrow in Woburn District Court. I am going to try to go, so hopefully I will be back with a first-hand account of the proceedings. Stay tuned for the latest on this sad story.
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