Boyfriends Murdered Two Teenage Girls in NH
James Wooten
Found this article at Foster's Daily Democrat Online
http://www.fosters.com/
Murder weapon - a 5-inch stiletto - reportedly belonged to one of two Salem
girls
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9/22/97
© 1997 The Associated Press
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SALEM, N.H. (AP) - A knife wrapped in a bloody T-shirt reportedly belonged
to one of the two Salem teen-agers murdered with it early on Sept. 13.
Police say the five-inch stiletto had been given to Kimberly Farrah, 18, by
a former boyfriend, the Boston Herald said it learned from the police.
Police found the knife in an industrial park in Andover, Mass., south of
Salem, on Friday after talking with one of the three suspects.
Farrah and her best friend, 17-year-old Leeann Millius, were found stabbed
to death in a Salem park by a woman walking her dog the morning of Sept.
13. Three young men seen with the victims hours before were arrested a few
days later in Michigan, where one man's mother lived. They are charged with
first-degree murder.
In the hours before the murders, the suspects reportedly made vague plans
to kill young women after a drug and alcohol bender during which one
repeatedly watched a horror film, authorities said.
The Eagle-Tribune of Lawrence, Mass., said Eric Jeleniewski, 19, of
Lunenburg, Mass., repeatedly watched the movie "Scream" in which teen-age
boys kill girlfriends and others. Jeleniewski, Christopher Doucette, 18, of
Manton, Mich. and Lunenburg; and James Grant, 20, of Fitchburg, Mass.;
drank and took drugs at a motel and began to talk of killing some
unspecified young women, the paper reported during the weekend.
Jeleniewski's lawyer, Andrew Cotrupi, dismissed the movie connection as
"meaningless speculation."
Authorities said several of the suspects' friends dismissed talk of a
killing spree as bravado and drug-induced craziness.
Jeleniewski is accused of stabbing Farrah to death and Doucette and Grant
are accused of beating and stabbing Millius.
Grant was attracted to Millius, and they had dated or at least seen each
other during the previous month, authorities said.
With a vague plan of committing a crime before making a trip to Michigan,
the three went to Millius' home Sept. 12 and had pizza and soda with the
two friends.
Afterward, the five went to a park.
Farrah was alone with Jeleniewski, authorities told the Eagle-Tribune, when
he put into effect the plan the three allegedly had been discussing. He hit
her head against the base of a pavilion and stabbed her in the neck and
chest, authorities said.
Millius did not know her friend had been killed, authorities said. They
said Doucette and Grant found out and decided to kill Millius so she could
not be a witness.
Massachusetts State Police crime specialists searched for fingerprints and
other evidence in the men's room of a Mobil station in Andover, where the
killers are believed to have gone to clean up.
The three are being held without bail pending a preliminary hearing Oct. 1.
Farrah was buried Thursday in Hampton. Millius was buried Saturday in a
private ceremony in Ayer, Mass.
NanLeeCro
Excerpt clipped from NEW ENGLAND NEWS 9 TOP NEWS STORIES
September 1997
HORROR MOVIE COULD BE BEHIND KILLINGS
Chilling details are emerging in last weekend's double murders in Salem.(NH)
One of the three suspects in the case is reportedly talking to authorities...
revealing shocking information in the case. The crime was apparently
patterned after the killing spree in the movie 'Scream', where teenage
boyfriends kill their girlfriends for no apparent reason. Police have also
recovered the murder weapon in Andover, Massachusetts. They are now
working to piece together the deadly details of last Friday night.