The Massachusetts woman
accused of beating and strangling her pregnant friend to death then
cutting the baby out of her womb and claiming the child as her own was
convicted of first-degree murder on Wednesday. More after the break
Julie
Corey sobbed as a Worcester Superior Court jury found her guilty of the
2009 murder of 23-year-old Darlene Haynes. The jurors had deliberated
for 10 hours over two days. Sentencing has been scheduled for Tuesday.
Prosecutors said Haynes was eight months pregnant when Corey attacked
her and cut the baby out of her body. They told the jury that Corey had been pregnant, too, but had a miscarriage three months earlier and told her boyfriend and family that Haynes' baby was her own.
'It's probably the most horrific case this office has ever seen in terms of facts,' District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said in a statement after the verdict was handed down. 'This woman was killed for her baby.' Corey, 39, did not testify during the trial. Corey's lawyers contended that police failed to follow up on leads that could have implicated other potential suspects in the killing, including Haynes' ex-boyfriend. They also suggested that Haynes' ex-boyfriend had given Corey and her boyfriend, Alex Dion, the baby. Dion denied that on the witness stand.
Julie Corey listens as Judge Janet Kenton-Walker instructs the jury during her murder trial
Darlene Haynes was brutally murdered and her fetus was cut from her stomach
Julie Corey and her boyfriend Alex Dion with the stolen baby
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