Defense Wants Peabody Murder Victim's Prison Records

PEABODY, MA -- A request for Department of Corrections records of a victim in a grisly, 2017 double murder in Peabody is nothing more than a "fishing expedition" by the attorney representing the defendant, according to an attorney for the agency. Salem Superior Court Judge Thomas Drechsler granted the request by John Apruzzese, who represents accused killer Wes Doughty, in April. In a filing on Monday, DOC lawyer C. Raye Poole said the request was overly broad and the records would not be admissible during the trial.

Doughty is accused of shooting and killing Mark Greenlaw, 37, and then raping and killing his girlfriend, 39-year-old Jennifer O'Connor inside a house at 19 Farm Avenue in Peabody in February 2017. Greenlaw was a prisoner at the Middleton Jail from 2004 to 2010 and from 2011 to 2014, according to the Salem News, which first reported this story.

Another suspect, Michael Hebb, pleaded guilty in October to helping cover up O'Connor's murder and trying to burn down the house. He was sentenced up to seven years in prison. Prosecutors said he could still be charged in the death of Greenlaw.

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