The Boston Globe, October 2nd, 1997
Globe staff reporters William F. Doherty and Daniel Vasquez contributed to this story. CAMBRIDGE -- Edward S. O'Brien, a Somerville teenager who prosecutors say walked out of his house on a hot summer night two years ago and used a pocket knife to kill the mother of his best friend, is not coming home. O'Brien, 17, a former altar boy accused of acting out sexual obsession, has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for the stabbing death of Janet Downing. A Superior Court jury yesterday decided O'Brien's fate in convicting him of murder with extreme atrocity. Judge James D. McD...
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