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'Deviant activities' including dominatrix business at issue ahead of Nov. murder trial of Julia Enright
Brad Petrishen
Telegram & Gazette
WORCESTER — A judge Wednesday heard arguments about whether to limit the amount of “deviant” information jurors hear about an Ashburnham woman accused of murdering a high school classmate in 2018.
Julia R. Enright’s statements to police about her dominatrix business, collection of used condoms, habit of using animal bones to create art and other “deviant” activities would be unfairly prejudicial ahead of a trial slated for next month, her lawyer argues.
“If the jurors hear this stuff, they’re going to think right away, ‘She’s a weirdo, she’s capable of doing anything,’” Louis M. Badwey, the woman’s lawyer, said at one point during a nearly four-hour proceeding in Worcester Superior Court.
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Fixation with blood, death, sexual 'knife play'
They allege the woman, who worked as a phlebotomist, had a fixation with blood, death, sexual “knife play” and manipulation of bones that is relevant to her possible state of mind and motive at the time of the killing.
Many of the woman’s habits were discussed during interrogations with police that preceded her arrest. According to lawyers’ arguments Wednesday, topics discussed included a practice she had of saving used condoms, collecting the blood of friends in vials, serving as a paid dominatrix, writing about a desire to kill someone and decomposing the bodies of animals in trash bags so she could use their bones to create art.
Defense: Most people may find collection of used condoms and blood samples odd
Badwey said there is no evidence any of the used condoms or blood samples Enright collected were linked to Chicklis. Most people would think her practices odd, he said, but if there is no direct link to her alleged crime making it unfair to include them.
Badwey similarly argued that statements Enright made to police about her side business as a dominatrix or her practice of decomposing animals inside bags to reveal bones she could use to make art had no bearing on her alleged crime.
Assistant District Attorney Terry J. McLaughlin disagreed, arguing the woman’s proclivities were relevant to her state of mind at the time Chicklis went missing and to the manner in which his body was found.
“That’s the exact same fashion in which the defendant was found,” McLaughlin said regarding the woman’s practice of placing animals in trash bags.
McLaughlin further argued that although the man’s body had decomposed, forensic experts were able to determine that he had been stabbed as many as 12 times and had what appeared to be incisions or carvings in his skin.
Such carvings, and the manner in which he died, make the woman’s fixation with “sexual blood play” and other deviant sexual practices relevant, he argued.
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Alleged plans to create baby, abort fetus and keep remains to 'play with the bones'
Other information argued about Wednesday included whether jurors should hear about plans Enright allegedly formulated to create a baby, abort the fetus and keep the remains to “play with the bones.”
She also reportedly told friends about her desire to commit murder, and wrote in a
note found by police that she had “this insatiable curiosity to kill a person.”
Enright told investigators that she did write the note, but attributed it to a creative writing class.