Murder Trial for Dominatrix-Phlebotomist Julia Enright Begins in Worcester Over Stabbing of Brandon Chicklis

The homicide trial of a 24-year-old lady accused of killing an ex-boyfriend and former classmate in a treehouse close to her dwelling started this week in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Julia Enright, an Ashburnham phlebotomist additionally working a side-hustle as a dominatrix, was 21 when she allegedly stabbed 20-year-old Brandon Chicklis between 10 and 12 instances, wrapped his physique in a blanket and trash baggage, and left it by the aspect of a New Hampshire freeway. She has been charged with first-degree homicide and has pleaded not responsible.

Of their opening statements on Monday, prosecutors alleged Enright, whom they characterised as obsessive about blood, domination, and homicide, lured Chicklis to a treehouse outfitted with restraints, in accordance with the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

“Do you suppose we might add bubbles to a blood tub?” a prosecutor quoted Enright as having texted her boyfriend, John Lind, on June 22, 2018, a day earlier than the state posited the homicide occurred. In keeping with courtroom data, eight days earlier than Chicklis was final seen alive, Enright tried to bribe Deliberate Parenthood into permitting her to maintain a fetus she aborted so she might “play with” its bones, the prosecution stated.

A lawyer for Enright argued that she stabbed Chicklis in self-defense after he sexually assaulted her. “This isn’t a heartless killer,” stated Louis Badwey, who referred to Chicklis as a “rapist.”

First Assistant District Lawyer Jeffrey Travers instructed jurors on Monday that the treehouse was the place Enright and Chicklis had had intercourse earlier than whereas relationship in highschool. Chicklis, remembered by his household as a Life Scout who beloved the outside, had apparently requested Enright to fulfill him half a dozen instances within the months main as much as his demise. She had toyed with him, Travers stated, “pulling him in after which pushing him away once more.”

In June 2018, Enright lastly texted Chicklis to fulfill her on the treehouse to drink and “celebration.” Individually, she instructed her boyfriend, John Lind, that she had a “shock” for him. After she’d killed Chicklis within the treehouse, the prosecutor stated, Enright and Lind dumped his physique off Route 119. Chicklis’ physique was not discovered till weeks later.

On Tuesday, New Hampshire’s chief medical expert, Jennie Duval, testified that conducting an post-mortem on the badly decomposed stays had been difficult. His physique was principally “skeletonized,” she stated, however his t-shirt had no less than a dozen slits in keeping with stab wounds.

After the homicide, Enright set about establishing an alibi, in accordance with Travers. She went out for sushi with Lind, who has not but been charged, and started sending texts to Chicklis’ telephone: “Why didn’t you present as much as meet me?”

A courtroom submitting stated that investigators who positioned the treehouse, referenced in texts between Enright and the sufferer, discovered “quite a few stains” that examined “presumptive constructive” for blood. Handles hooked up to the partitions had been “presumably used to connect restraint gadgets.”

Authorities looking out Enright’s dwelling additionally discovered vials of blood, a used condom assortment, quite a few knives, dominatrix supplies, “plastic tubs with animal carcasses in numerous states of rotting,” and a “moist specimen,” in accordance with courtroom paperwork. Attorneys for the protection fought for hours to stop a lot of the proof being admitted to courtroom, arguing that it was irrelevant and unfairly prejudicial, the Telegram & Gazette reported.

In the long run, Worcester Superior Court docket Choose Daniel M. Wrenn needed to challenge a line-by-line ruling on which displays could be admitted. Amongst these he excluded had been photographs of “a bucket of organs” and a video of “the defendant licking blood from a physique half.” Wrenn additionally dominated out various Enright’s writings and journal entries for the trial, which is predicted to run till the week of Thanksgiving.

An affidavit captured a few of Enright’s entries in her notebooks, recovered by authorities. “I daydream about it from time to time,” she allegedly wrote, in accordance with The Boston Globe. “I simply have this insatiable curiosity to kill an individual.”