Julia Enright.Photo: Christine Peterson/Worcester Telegram & Gazette via AP
A Massachusetts woman was found guilty this week of second-degree murder in the killing of her former classmate.
Julia Enright, 24, was accused of fatally stabbing Brandon Chicklis, 20, in a treehouse near her Ashburnham home on June 23, 2018.
After the murder, Enright wrapped his body in a blue tarp and then dumped it along a highway in Hew Hampshire.
During the trial, prosecutors argued that Enright, a phlebotomist, dominatrix and Marilyn Manson fan, was obsessed with grave robbing, death and blood and wrote about her fascination in journal entries, some of which were read in court.
“I just have an insatiable curiosity to kill a person,” read one journal entry, according toCBS4 Boston.
Prosecutors alleged the killing of Chicklis, a former boy scout and HVAC technician, was a “gift” to her boyfriend,Associated Pressreports.
“It was a form of a present,” she allegedly wrote on her MacBook five days after the slaying, theNew Hampshire Union Leaderreports. “I did it just for him. That was my intention.”
Brandon Chicklis.
Prosecutors argued that Enright lured Chicklis, who she had once dated in high school, to the treehouse for a sexual encounter, theTelegram & Gazettereports.
Before they met up, Enright allegedly told Chicklis on Facebook Messenger to keep their meeting a secret and she had a surprise for him. He agreed to keep quiet about their encounter, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said that around the same time she was messaging Chicklis, she sent her boyfriend a text that read: “Do you think we could add bubbles to a blood bath?”
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Before Chicklis arrived at the treehouse, she covered the floor with a blue tarp and a white comforter, prosecutors said, according to theTelegram & Gazette.
Once there, she stabbed him multiple times and then enlisted her boyfriend to help her dispose of his body.
Enright took the stand in her own defense and claimed that she killed Chicklis in self-defense after she planned to have sex with him but changed her mind.
“He just wasn’t stopping and I pulled the knife out,” she said, theUnion Leaderreports.
Enright’s sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 18, Associated Press reports.
source: people.com
