State v. Brennan

OPINION

MURRAY, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of felony murder and appeals. We affirm.

Detectives responding to a call to investigate a homicide at an apartment at 17 Deborah Street in Providence on the morning of January 18, 1984, found the body of eighty-one-year-old Lawrence Bello on the floor. Mr. Bello had been beaten, battered, tortured, and murdered. A pipe had been stuffed down his throat; its bowl protruded from his lips. A bloody knife and a roll of twine lay next to Mr. Bello’s body; the word “kill” had been written in what appeared to be blood on the wall. The entire apartment…