Julia Enright.
A Massachusetts treehouse murderess now is aware of her fate.
Julia Enright, 24, used to be sentenced to the maximum penalty under Massachusetts regulation on Friday for the 2018 murder of 20-year-old Brandon Chicklis, a former classmate and boyfriend.
Worcester Superior Court Judge Daniel Wrenn sentenced the defendant to lifestyles in jail with the potential of parole after 25 years after hearing victim have an effect on statements from nine of Chicklis’s friends and family, according to MassLive’s court reporter Erin Tiernan.
One after some other, each of the 9 described the outlet that was left of their lives following the younger man’s brutal murder. And, in turn, each asked for the judge to return the most harsh penalty towards Enright.
Chicklis’s mom, Trisha Edwards-Lamarche, explained her grim and daily dilemma, in step with studies from the courtroom.
“Every day when force to paintings, I am getting to select: Do I drive by way of where she dumped my son’s body as of late, or do I pressure by way of the place she dumped his car?” the grieving mom instructed the judge.
“I really like you Brandon, you’ll at all times be my bumble bee,” the deceased guy’s grandmother, Louisa Rocha, stated in court docket.
Chicklis was once stabbed at least 10 times inside the Enright circle of relatives’s Ashburnam, Mass. treehouse on June 23, 2018, the trial revealed. His body was found via a jogger on July 10, 2018 on the side of Route 119 in Rindge, New Hampshire, a the city just across the state line from Massachusetts. The corpse was in a sophisticated state of decomposition by the time it used to be discovered — which was a key point of dialogue right through the trial because of Enright’s uncontested fixation with useless animals, decomposition, and demise, basically.
During trial, one witness reportedly testified the defendant would on occasion attempt to accelerate a dead animal’s decomposition by leaving its frame out in the elements and wrapped up in a tarp. Prosecutors tried to make use of the testimony to suggest a parallel to how Chicklis can have been treated.
In her defense, Enright instructed jurors her occult-adjacent interests were an aspect effect of her then-obsession with surprise rocker Marilyn Manson.
The trial additionally featured some focal point on the defendant’s facet business as a dominatrix – a lot to the defense’s chagrin and prior protestations.
Enright herself lodged an unsuccessful claim that she killed Chicklis in self-defense based on an alleged tried sexual assault in the treehouse. Jurors didn’t settle for that version of the story.
Prosecutors argued the slaying used to be a “reward” for John Lind, the defendant’s then-boyfriend. Lind was indicted by a Worcester County Grand Jury for accessory after the fact to murder, deceptive a grand jury, and perjury earlier this year. Originally charged in December of last year, he's speculated to have shared many of the identical macabre pursuits as the convicted girl.
Lind first made waves within the case months prior.
In October 2021, Lind pleaded the 5th right through one in all Enright’s pre-trial evidentiary hearings when requested to account for what, exactly, moved his girlfriend to replace part of the carpet within the treehouse. Previously, he allegedly advised police the textile had been replaced due to a intercourse act between the 2 that led to injury from human feces.
Evidence later prompt there was once never any carpet within the treehouse sooner than the murder in any respect. And, within the space where the carpet had allegedly been changed, investigators discovered Chicklis’s blood and DNA.
“His DNA is on your treehouse,” a state trooper advised Enright throughout her 2d interview with the Massachusetts State Police at the day she was arrested. “How could his DNA, his blood, be on your treehouse?”
She got up and tried to depart at that point however, from that point on, would remain within the custody of legislation enforcement.
As for Lind, all the way through trial she testified he helped her eliminate the body.
“There isn't a day that goes via that don’t take into consideration this or don’t wish I may just return,” Enright mentioned in a bid to minimize her sentence. “Maybe you wish to have to listen to me say this: I’m sorry to everybody. His parents, his siblings, his loved ones, my oldsters, buddies, everybody.”
According to MassAre living, she never mentioned her sufferer’s identify and simplest grew to become to relatively deal with his circle of relatives in courtroom on Friday.
“I need you to understand how a lot I’ve thought about everything,” she endured. “I want you to know I imply it. I want you to grasp that every night I pray for my circle of relatives. I’m praying for yours too.”
“I won’t lie and faux like being with my circle of relatives and loved ones isn’t the only factor I would like,” she went on.
But her plea for mercy fell flat.
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