A 48 year old Danvers, MA woman who originally faced 1st degree murder charges for stabbing her ex-boyfriend, a 55 year old house painter, to death will serve 8 to 13 years in a Massachusetts prison after jurors convicted her of manslaughter Thursday, July 24.
After 7 years of an off and on relationship and a restraining order that Kathie DeFelice took out on William Olsen Jr, a housepainter, DeFelice broke her own restraining order to contact Olsen. After two weeks of calling him, with some calls lasting 5 hours, DeFelice invited Olsen back to her apartment on October 30, 2006.
It was there that DeFelice stabbed him with a kitchen knife that entered the center of his chest, pierced his pericardial sac and aorta and caused him to bleed to death within minutes. DeFelice testified that she grabbed the knife from a table and stabbed blindly as Olsen tried to strangle her, provoked, she said, by her request that he stop contacting her family. Then she ran out of the apartment.
But prosecutor Kate MacDougall offered jurors a different scenario, one in which DeFelice was jealous that Olsen had moved on, starting a new relationship, that she was angry because her own new boyfriend had decided to go home for the night, that she felt abandoned, perhaps, when Olsen passed out drunk on the sofa.
Salem Superior Court Judge David Lowy said while sentencing DeFelice,
"Only Ms. DeFelice knows what happened in that room on Oct. 30, 2006, but we know that the jury did not find beyond a reasonable doubt an absence of excessive force in self-defense, heat of passion or sudden combat."
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