WOBURN, Massachusetts – The alleged killer of his wife, two children and mother-in-law pleaded not guilty last Thursday of four counts of first degree murder.
The Massachusetts man Thomas Mortimer IV was arranged in Woburn Superior court on Thursday. He had also entered not guilty pleas in district court and been held without bail.
Following his arrest of the killings that happened last June the prosecutor described how he left two copies of letter confessing to the slaying.
A Massachusetts man accused of killing his wife, two children and mother-in-law pleaded not guilty Thursday to four counts of first-degree murder as a prosecutor described how he left two copies of a letter confessing to the slayings.
Thomas Mortimer IV was arraigned in Woburn Superior Court on Thursday following his indictment last week. He had previously entered not guilty pleas in district court and has been held without bail since his arrest following the killings in June
The clerk read an indictment charging him in the murders of his wife, 41-year-old Laura Stone Mortimer, mother-in-law, 64-year-old Ellen Stone, and two children, 4-year-old Thomas Mortimer V, and 2-year-old Charlotte Mortimer. He did not look at his wife’s family members, seated in the front row of the courtroom. He frowned during hearing.
The family was found beaten and stabbed to death in their Winchester home. “On going marital discord,” caused the slaying District Attorney Gerard Leone has said.
Authorities believed the Killings was between 9:10 pm on June 14 and 7:10 on June 15 when he called his new boss he was too sick not to report for work and son’s school to say the boy would be absent , Assistant District Attorney Adrienne Lynch said.
A two copies of computer printed letter in which “he admitted responsibility for the murders of his family,” Lynch said was written sometime between 11:16 p.m. and 3:19 a.m. we’re found in their home.
Prosecutors said previously that the letter said: “I did these horrible things. What I’ve done was extremely selfish and cowardly. I murdered my family.” The bodies were found later on June 16.
After making the phone calls, Mortimer left the house, taking his wife’s cell phone with him, Lynch said. She said that when his wife’s sister called to talk to her, Mortimer gave her a chilling response. “He indicated she was not able to come to the phone and it would be a while before she would be able to,” Lynch said.
Mortimer’s lawyer, Denise Regan, has said he has mental health issues. Judge Thomas Billings agreed to keep the document sealed, at least temporarily, to give Mortimer’s lawyer time to file written arguments before a hearing on Sept. 9.
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