Commonwealth v. Winquist

On May 9, 2005, the badly decomposed bodies of two homeless men, subsequently identified as Wiliam Chrapan and David Lyon, were discovered inside an abandoned ammunition bunker located in Bare Cove Park in Hingham. The cause of death for each man was blunt force trauma and “semi-sharp” injuries to the head. In addition, Chrapan was missing his right hand, which was found two months later by two men walking their dogs in Bridgewater. The defendant, James S. Winquist, was indicted by a grand jury on September 28, 2007, on two counts of murder, G. L. c. 265, § 1. Following a jury trial in the…