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Oct 4, 2022 · On December 1, 1987, 17-year-old Daniel LaPlante murdered Priscilla Gustafson and her two kids in Townsend, Massachusetts — a year after living inside the nearby Bowen family’s walls.
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. Photo: AP Photo, File.
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.
Mar 23, 2017 · After raping Priscilla, who was pregnant at the time, LaPlante put a pillow over her face and shot her two times while her 5-year-old son was right there. He told the boy she was sleeping before drowning him in the bathtub -- and then did the same his 7-year-old sister, Abigail.
Mar 5, 2019 · A Massachusetts man who as a teenager was convicted of raping and murdering a pregnant woman and drowning her two young children in a bathtub asked the state's highest court through a lawyer on Tuesday for a shot at earlier parole.
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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.
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