UPDATED: Edwin Alemany Found Guilty of Murder

His attorneys hoped for a not guilty verdict due to insanity, but after more than half a day of deliberations on Monday, Edwin Alemany was found guilty of first degree murder, as well as kidnapping, in a gory case that involved stabbing one woman and attacked two others in less than 24 hours.

Jurors convicted Alemany of first-degree murder, kidnapping, armed carjacking, two counts of armed robbery, two counts of armed robbery while masked, stealing by confining, arson of a motor vehicle, and assault and battery in the July 23, 2013, stabbing death of Amy Lord, former Bentley University student. Jurors acquitted Alemany of an additional count of armed assault with intent to rape.

The Suffolk County DA’s office also announced that jurors also convicted him of attempted murder and assault and battery for an attack prior to Lord’s homicide, and armed assault with intent to murder and aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for an attack on a third victim after Lord’s homicide.

The trial lasted about three weeks, with Chief Trial Counsel John Pappas succeeding in proving that Alemany attacked a 22-year-old woman as she walked on Old Colony Ave. just before 5 p.m. on July 23. He beat her, knocked her to the ground, and dragged her into a parking lot, telling her that he would kill her before fleeing on foot, said the release.

Alemany was also found guilty of attacking Lord as she left her Dorchester Street apartment that same morning (around 6 a.m.). The evidence showed that Alemany beat Lord, forced her into her Jeep Cherokee at knifepoint, and forced her to make a series of cash withdrawals at bank machines in South Boston and Dorchester. He then forced her to drive with him to Stony Brook Reservation in Hyde Park, where he stabbed her to death. He set the Jeep on fire back in Boston later that night.

He rushed a third lone female victim, showed the evidence, as she made her way to her Gates Street home just after midnight on July 24.

Finally, the evidence showed, Alemany rushed a third lone female victim as she entered her Gates Street home just after midnight on July 24, about 18 hours after Lord was killed. Alemany reportedly stabbed her, as well, but fled when she screamed and neighbors called 911.

Alemany was arrested at Tufts Medical Center, where he was being treated for the knife wound he received while attacking the woman.

“We can never give a murder victim’s family what they truly want,” Conley said in a statement. “Their loved one is gone, taken from them forever. But we can do our solemn best to find justice on their behalf through painstaking investigation and prosecution. I hope Ms. Lord’s family and the surviving victims can take some small measure of satisfaction that this defendant will never hurt another woman again.”

Lord graduated from Bentley University with a BA in marketing, quantitative perspectives, in 2011.

“She was an active member of our community – she was involved in the Bentley Service Learning Program, the Residence Hall Association, the International Buddy Network, and was a Study Abroad Peer Advisor,” said the Bentley announcement. “She studied Economics and Business while at Universidad de Navarra in 2009 and was active in intramural soccer. During her time at Bentley she also interned at MassMutual Life Insurance Company, NetCracker and Genuine Interactive.”

Lord, after graduation, worked as a digital media analyst with Genuine Interactive in Boston.

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