WOBURN, Mass. -
A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to
life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing his wife,
two young children and mother-in-law at their home north of Boston two
years ago.
Thomas Mortimer IV pleaded guilty Wednesday to first-degree murder in Woburn Superior Court.
The victims' bodies were
found at their Winchester home when Mortimer's sister-in-law went there
after repeated telephone calls to her mother and sister weren't
answered.
Prosecutors say the
slayings followed a fight over a bounced check between Mortimer and his
wife, Laura Stone Mortimer. The others killed were Ellen Stone, and the
two Mortimer children, 2-year-old Charlotte and 4-year-old Thomas
Mortimer V. Prosecutors say the 4-year-old watched his father kill the
others before he was killed.
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