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Posted on 04/06/2006 12:40:04 PM PDT by Graybeard58
WATERBURY -- A man already in prison for his admitted role in the death of Maryann Measles said she hardly resisted when the eight people she had once called friends joined in a frenzied attack to kick, beat and rape her along the banks of the Housatonic River in New Milford Oct. 19, 1997.
One of those people, Jeffrey Boyette testified, was Keith Foster.
"Everyone was yelling, loud and angry," said Boyette, on the stand in the second day of Foster's trial in Waterbury Superior Court. "I don't know how it could have been worse. We were her friends."
Foster, facing 10 charges including felony murder, is so far the only one of eight suspects to stand trial. Six others, including Boyette, pleaded guilty. A seventh awaits trial.
"I was holding her hands," said Boyette, who said he watched Deaneric Dupas and then Foster rape the 13-year-old girl.
"She looked up at me and said, 'Why don't you help me?'"
Boyette, who wore a green prison jumpsuit with shackles around his ankles but not his wrists, was sentenced in September 2004 to 25 years in jail for his part in the crimes related to Measles' death.
In a barely audible voice which carried the twang of his Texas roots, Boyette, formerly of New Milford, described in lurid detail his recollection of the horrific last hours of Maryann Measles' life.
Barely 17, Boyette had been released from jail on burglary charges three days before the night he met Measles at the local teen center in October 1997. He had spent those three days drinking and smoking pot, Boyette said. He and Measles talked, flirted and had oral sex that night in the back of an unlocked postal truck, he said. He gave her the hickey Measles' mother noticed when she next saw her daughter two days later, on Oct. 19, 1997.
That night, Measles' mother, Cindi, answered her daughter's call for help from the Town Green. She had filed statutory rape complaints against Foster and Alan "A.J." Walter and feared he and others of their group were coming to get her. Cindi Measles left her daughter waiting in her car in the Big Y parking lot while she ran in for bread and milk.
That's when Ronald Rajcok pulled up in his car, Boyette with him, Boyette said. Maryann Measles jumped in the back of the car and gave Boyette a hug because she was glad to see him, he said. Boyette said he helped her into the car after someone yelled that Foster and Dorothy Hallas were heading toward them in Foster's pickup truck.
The meeting was not chance, but a ploy, Boyette said. Maryann Measles quickly realized something was amiss, and Rajcok ignored her pleas of "take me back." Rajcok told her he was angry over rumors that Measles was pregnant with his child, Boyette said.
The two vehicles, Rajock's car and Foster's pick up, and a third driven by Maggie Bennett converged along River Road in New Milford. Everyone got out of their vehicles, and Hallas and Measles began arguing, Boyette said.
"She was in the middle, surrounded by everyone," Boyette said. "Everyone was yelling. People started to hit her. It was just coming from every direction.
"Eventually she fell down and she was kicked. She broke the circle, Dorothy brought her back by taking her hand. A.J. (Walter) said he was going to kill her. He said she was a bitch and lying.
"I heard a bang. It looked like he had thrown her into the side of the van. A.J. and Dean (Dupas) got into the van. She wasn't fighting back. She was broken. Her spirit was broken. A.J. told me to hold her hands. I got in to hold her hands."
Boyette said he saw Dupas rape her, followed by Foster in the cargo area, with the van's hatch open.
"I didn't want to be there," said Boyette, who then left with Rajcok, who said he had to report for work.
Later, they met up with Walter and Foster at a boat launch near the center of town. He asked them what they were doing with the bundle, which contained Measles' body wrapped in a blanket with duct tape and a chain.
"We're getting rid of a dog," Walter told Boyette, according to his testimony. They threw the bundle in the water.
Cindi Measles' mother filed a missing persons report Sept. 21, 1997. Her daughter's body was found floating in Lake Lillinonah July 15, 1998.
Testimony continues today.
Ping to a sad, sick story.
The dates in the body of the article donot jive.
Sick bastards.
This is the mob mentality in action. Weak minded people are easily whipped up into this kind of mindless pig pile.
Thanks, Graybeard. Yeah, this is one of the leading stories in CT right now. Definitely sad and sick...
I'll ping my list here.
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mob mentality is a very, very, frightening thing.
Poor little girl.
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