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:20 THE BOSTON GLOBE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1996 Seguin loses bid for shorter slay sentence Residents relieved after N.H. arrests Nashua men charged in murders By Patricia Nealon GLOBE STAFF By Paul Langner GLOBE STAFF pression at the time of the killings, according to four experts who testified at the trial. While jurors said they believed he was mentally ill when he killed his family, they said the impairment was not sufficient to find him not guilty by reason of insanity. Instead, the jury convicted Seguin of second-degree murder, rather than first-degree, reasoning that the depression affected his powers of premeditation. Barton sentenced Seguin to one life sentence for the murder of his wife, a second, consecutive life sentence for the murder of his son, and a third, concurrent life sentence for the murder of his daughter.

Seguin, 37, will be eligible for parole after serving 30 years. man convicted in one of the most horrific crimes in recent memory. "Punishment for this crime has not is not and will never be a result of incarceration," wrote Seguin, 37. Rather, he said, he must live daily with the knowledge that he killed his wife and children. Seguin suggested that, instead of languishing in prison for the next 27 years, he could be of use counseling other depressed people, perhaps in a residential program for "the mentally impaired andor the down and out.

"My own tragedy allows me to be an effective listenercounseloradvocate in helping other afflicted people," he wrote. "Wouldn't justice be better served if I were helping to prevent depression in others during stressful times in their life?" After coaching a youth soccer game on an April night in 1992, Seguin packed his children into his pickup truck while his wife was out selling cosmetics. While driving toward Cape Cod, Seguin fed his five-year-old daughter, Amy, and seven-year-old son, Daniel, sleeping pills. Then, by a pond in Franklin, he carried the groggy children to the water's edge, where he slashed their throats with a razor blade before dumping then-bodies in the weedy water. He then returned home where he bludgeoned his wife, Mary Ann, 34, with an ax while she lay sleeping in their bedroom.

He dumped her body in the Sudbury River before attempting suicide in a nearby park. Seguin suffered from a major de Kenneth Seguin, the Holliston "Computer executive convicted of kill-; ing his wife and two small children, has lost a bid to have his sentence shortened. Seguin, who relied on an insanity defense during his trial in early 1993, filed a six-page motion to revise the sentence imposed by Judge Robert A. Barton, arguing that soci- 1 ety's attitude toward mental illness has changed. Barton denied the motion yesterday without comment.

Written by Seguin from his cell at the Old Colony Correctional Cen- ter in Bridgewater, the motion pro- vides a glimpse into the mind of a 'Thank God they got them. But I still think a lot of people don't lock their SUZANNE GERRY Runs market in Hudson, N. H. TUESDAY number 7763 TUESDAY PAYOFFS (based on $1 bet) EXACT ORDER ft $5,375 All 4 digits $752 First or last 3 $64 Any 2 digits $6 Any 1 digit ANY ORDER The arrests of two young Nashua men over the weekend for the murders last November of two elderly sisters from Hudson, N.H., has brought some relief to a town that prided itself on its unlocked doors. "Thank God they got them," said Suzanne Gerry, who runs Thompson's Market in Hudson.

"But I still think a lot of people don't lock their doors." Charles Dorval 21, was ar-. rested Saturday in the Hillsborough County House of Correction in Manchester, and his former roommate, Jerry Millard, 20, was arrested Monday in their Nashua apartment. They are charged with bludgeoning to death Loretta Allen, 76, and her sister Doris Bean, 81. The two women were found in the kitchen of their Central Street home the afternoon of Nov. 11.

They had shared that house for 50 years, according to neighbors. Assistant Attorney General John Stephens said the attacks on the two women "may have been theft-related." Police had focused their suspicion on Dorval early in the investigation, according to sources, and had arrested Dorval when he resisted police attempts to search his and Millard's apartment last December. They had come with a search warrant as part of the murder investigation and arrested Dorval for interfering with a police officer. When the bodies of the two women were discovered, their neighbors expressed shock. "This is a town where doors are not locked, but the people I've talked to are petrified.

We seem to be turning into a metropolitan city," said Susan Bausha, a neighbor, at the time. At the time the two sisters were killed, Hudson was still talking of the killing of two armored car guards whose bodies were found in field in if i $448 All 4 digits $251 First 3 digits $125 Last 3 digits MASS CASH August 1994. They had been kidnapped while making a delivery at a Hudson bank. No one has been arrested in that double homicide. The weekend arrests relieved the mind of at least one neighbor.

"Yes, I'm glad. Everybody is," said Doris Goodale, who had known the sisters for the bulk of her 70 years. Goodale said she had known the two suspects. "They did yard work for the two sisters. They did some for me, too, for several people." But Goodale said she was as baffled as everyone else by the apparent attack on the two sisters.

"I can't look into anyone's mind Who can say what's in anyone's mind?" Allen has a son living in Florida and a daughter in Massachusetts. Neither could be reached for comment yesterday. Dean had never married. Dorval and Millard were arraigned yesterday in Nashua District Court, where they pleaded not guilty to one charge each of murder in the first degree. Their cases were continued to March 1 for a pretrial conference.

Both are being held without bail. Assistant Attorney General John Stephen said that Dorval is charged with the murder of Loretta Allen and Millard with the murder of Doris Bean. Feb. 19: 15 22 23 28 35 Jackpot: There were three jackpot winners. MASS MILLIONS Feb.

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On Monday DSS workers went to the Abreu home to speak with family members, she said. "We're investigating," Carli said. A friend who answered the phone at the Abreu home yester: day said the family did not want to speak. "It's a very painful time," said the friend, who would not identify herself. "This is a wonderful, wonderful family.

She was a wonderful little girl." for the past two weeks, authorities said. Initial autopsy results yesterday did not determine a cause of death, but further tests were being conducted, said Jill Reilly, a spokeswoman for the Middlesex District Attorney's Office. DSS became involved in the case because MGH officials suspected abuse and filed a 51A report, DSS spokeswoman Lorraine Carli said. By law, hospitals must submit a 51A report to DSS whenever a child is suspected to have been abused. An MGH spokeswoman said yesterday that she could not pro The Middlesex District Attorney's Office and the Department of Social Services are investigating the death of a 4-year-old Arlington girl who was found unconscious in her home Monday.

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