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Sep 19, 2023 · Newly released court documents in the murder case of two Delphi, Ind. girls are providing new details, including what investigators discovered at the crime scene and a supposed confession from...
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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
- The Traumatic Early Years of Daniel Laplante
- Becoming The Boy in The Walls
- The Harrowing Gustafson Murders
- A Life Sentence For Daniel Laplante
Daniel LaPlante was bornon May 15, 1970, in Townsend, Massachusetts, and he allegedly suffered traumatic sexual and psychological abuse during his childhood at the hands of his father and then as a teen at the hands of his psychiatrist. LaPlante’s environment was no less chaotic. His family’s house and surrounding grounds were reportedly a mass of ...
Over the course of several weeks in late Fall 1986, Daniel LaPlante gained entry to the Bowen home at 93 Lawrence Street, in Pepperell, near Townsend. From a small crawl space no wider than six inches, he initiated psychological torment on the family. After watching Tina and her sister try to contact their recently deceased mother on a ouija board,...
While awaiting trial, LaPlante moved home and continued his daytime burglary spree. On Oct. 14, 1987, he stole two .22 Caliber firearms from a neighboring house. On Nov. 16, 1987, LaPlante burglarized the home of the Gustafson family, which included pregnant nursery school teacher Priscilla Gustafson, her husband Andrew, and their two children, fiv...
Meanwhile, Andrew Gustafson had been calling his wife all afternoon. Returning to an eerily quiet house with no lights on, Gustafson feared the worst. He first found his wife dead, lying face down on the bedspread. Then, he fled the house and called police. He later reported thathe refused to look for the children because, “I was afraid I would fin...
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. [2]
Mar 5, 2019 · BOSTON (AP) — 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...
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 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.
