Caius Veiovis Guilty in Triple-Murder Case
SPRINGFIELD, MA-- "I'll see you all in hell, you remember that. Every [expletive] one of you, I'll see you in hell."
Those were the words a seething Caius Veiovis spat at the jury after they found him guilty of first-degree murder, kidnapping and witness intimidation on Friday.
The triple-murder trial lasted just under a month. The jury deliberated for about 38 hours over a six-day period.
"We have never wavered in our belief that we have charged all three of these people properly," Berkshire County District Attorney David Capeless said.
Veiovis is the third and final man to be convicted of the brutal crimes that shook Berkshire County in 2011. That's when David Glasser, Edward Frampton and Robert Chadwell were kidnapped and murdered, their bodies then dismembered and buried on private property in Becket.
"I don't think any investigation this expansive, this large, this extensive have ever been undertaken in Berkshire County," Capeless said.
This is the third victory in a row for the prosecution, which relied almost exclusively on witness testimony. Capeless admitted there was no DNA evidence or murder weapon to tie Veiovis to the crimes but he held strong that Veiovis had an equal hand in the killings, which Adam Lee Hall and David Chalue are already serving life sentences for.
Meanwhile, Defense Attorney James Gavin Reardon Jr. is calling foul on the lack of physical evidence against Veiovis.
"I obviously respectfully disagree with their result. I'm an advocate for my client," Reardon said. "There was some important legal issues about circumstantial evidence and reasonable inferences from circumstantial evidence."
Throughout the three-week trial Reardon admitted Veiovis is odd, with his horn implants and satanic facial tattoos, but he says Veiovis is not a murderer.
"I always have confidence in juries and I still believe strongly in the American jury system, still think it's an excellent system. I think it's the best system that exists," Reardon said.
Reardon says there is an automatic appeal for a first-degree murder conviction in Massachusetts but unless that's successful Veiovis will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
He will be sentenced Monday.