Peabody Murder Suspects Due In Court May 22

PEABODY, MA - As new details have emerged in the grisly double murder in Peabody last February, the two men indicted in the case are scheduled for a May 22 arraignment in superior court.

Wes Doughty, 39, is scheduled to be arraigned in Salem Superior Court on two counts of murder and one count each of rape, attempted arson, carjacking, kidnapping, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in connection with the Feb. 17 murders of Mark Greenlaw and Jennifer O'Connor.

Peobody police discovered a grisly scene in the garbage-stuffed cellar of a since condemned bungalow on Farm Avenue in Peabody, where the bodies of the victims were dumped, the Boston Herald reports.

Doughty raped O’Connor before killing her, a spokeswoman for Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett told the Herald, then tried to set the Farm Avenue house on fire.

Murder charges against Doughty’s co-defendant, Michael Hebb, 45, were dismissed, but the grand jury did indict him on two counts of accessory after the fact and one count of attempted arson.

Hebb also is scheduled for arraignment in Salem Superior Court on May 22.

Greenlaw, a builder, was killed by a shotgun blast to the head, while O’Connor, a Stop & Shop clerk, was fatally stabbed in the neck and torso, according to their death certificates at Peabody City Hall, the Herald reports.

Doughty fled the state after carjacking Kenneth Metz, a Middleton man, and was arrested in South Carolina after a week on the run and a nationwide fugitive alert.

Metz, the carjacking victim, told the media that Doughty allegedly confessed to killing the couple.

Courtesy photo of Wes Doughty.