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The Girl With Evil Desires

Julia Enright acted out the evil fantasies she wrote in her journal. Enright have been sentenced To prison

By Rare StoriesPublished about a year ago 3 min read
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Atreehouse may evoke memories of youthful innocence. However, one such building was alleged to have set the stage for the grisly murder of 20-year-old Brandon Chicklis in a murder trial in Massachusetts. And a jury in Worcester Superior Court recently convicted his ex-girlfriend, Julia Enright, of murdering him in one.

Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. stated, "Justice was served." He acknowledged that Chicklis' family was relieved, but said, "The thing you want to give them, you can't give them, and that's Brandon back."

In a dramatic trial that lasted three weeks, the prosecution argued that Julia Enright, a phlebotomist by day and a dominatrix by night, had killed Chicklis in cold blood on June 23, 2018, as a “gift” to her new boyfriend, John Lind.

Enright may have even bound Chicklis, who was stabbed in the chest a dozen times, within the treehouse. The prosecution noted that “restraints” were drilled into the treehouse walls and that Enright had previously purchased rope and chains.

Brandon Chicklis’s body was found by a jogger

“She set up the treehouse with a tarp and a blanket and restraints and whatever else,” argued Assistant District Attorney Terry J. McLaughlin during the trial. “She got him to the treehouse, and she killed him.”

Next, the prosecution alleged, Julia Enright and John Lind wrapped Chicklis in a tarp and dumped his body off a highway embankment in Rindge, New Hampshire.

Enright, on the other hand, left a trail. The prosecution referenced a text message Enright sent to Lind minutes before asking Chicklis over, in which she said, "Do you think we could add bubbles to a blood bath?"

They also provided Enright's journals as evidence. Enright wrote five days after Chicklis's death that "the experience" had "turned on" her. She also expressed concern that her "gift" had gone unnoticed, while referring to it as a "bonding event" that was "extremely thrilling."

Julia Enright argued during her testimony at the trial that the "incident" in issue was actually a grave robbery, but the prosecution discounted her claim as a fraud.

McLaughlin told the jurors, "That's rubbish." "This is five days after she assassinated Mr. Chicklis... That's what she thought. That's how she perceived it."

In addition, the prosecution presented evidence that Enright was obsessed with blood and killing. She kept dead animals in jars, blood vials in her room, and sought to bribe Planned Parenthood to let her take her aborted fetus home. Enright had also written in her journal of her "insatiable desire to harm someone."

But Julia Enright and her lawyer contended that something quite different had occurred in the treehouse on June 23. Enright alleged that Chicklis had sexually attacked her and that she had closed her eyes and stabbed him in self-defense.

She claimed to have stabbed him in self-defense.

"I kept attempting to push him off, and he shoved me into the wall, and I hit my head," Enright testified.

According to her lawyer, Louis Badwey, the prosecution is portraying Enright as a "dirty girl" in order to undercut her claim of sexual assault. He contended that someone as thorough as Enright would not have planned to murder someone in the treehouse, which was on her neighbor's property because of the unwanted attention it would have drawn.

Enright said that her journal entries did not reflect her genuine views, but rather a "persona" she invented to mask her sentiments of weakness.

However, the jury ultimately sided with the prosecution. Julia Enright was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Brandon Chicklis.

Early explained, "You're always looking for a first-degree [conviction]." "We assumed the evidence was as it is. But you must respect the jury's decision... We're overjoyed with the decision."

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