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Oct 4, 2022 · After tormenting the family of a girl he was stalking by secretly living inside their walls for several weeks, Daniel LaPlante committed his worst crime yet when he broke into the home of Priscilla Gustafson in December 1987.
LaPlante had raped her and shot her multiple times at point-blank range. LaPlante drowned both of her children (7-year-old Abigail and 5-year-old William) in separate bathrooms. A year later, LaPlante was sentenced to three life sentences for the murders of the Gustafsons.
Jul 28, 2023 · Middlesex Sheriff's officers escort murder suspect Daniel J. LaPlante, 17, from district court in Ayer, Mass. after he pleaded innocent to charges of fatally shooting a mother and strangling or drowning her two children at their Townsend, Mass., home.
Mar 23, 2017 · A killer convicted of murdering a pregnant woman and her two children is aiming to get out of prison earlier because he was a teenager when the crime happened. Twenty-nine years later - the family of Priscilla, Abby and Billy are reliving the horror all over again.
Mar 23, 2017 · A man sentenced to life in prison for killing a mother and her two young children in Townsend 30 years ago will have to wait 15 more years before he's eligible for parole, a judge ruled Thursday.
Mar 5, 2019 · A Massachusetts man who was convicted of raping and murdering a pregnant woman and drowning her two young children in a bathtub in 1987 asked the state’s highest court Tuesday for a shot at earlier parole.
Mar 5, 2019 · When the 33-year-old woman returned home and encountered LaPlante, prosecutors say he tied her to a bed, raped and shot her, then drowned the children, 7-year-old Abigail and 5-year-old William,...
