![]() 'People will notice a big difference in me once my eyes turn dead.’Įven though there was no physical evidence, Matthew’s words were damning enough to have him arrested.Īnd despite being only 15, it was decided the crime was so serious, he would be tried as an adult.Īt the trial this year, the prosecution said Matthew, now 18, had been jealous Lee had been spending time with the girl he liked. ‘I know what I’m going to do and I can’t do anything about it.' ‘Take a good look at my eyes the next time we talk cuz that’s the last time ur gna see them like that ever again,’ he wrote. The day before Lee went missing, Matthew had sent more messages to the girl telling her he believed a person’s eyes change when they kill someone. He made it clear he didn’t like her talking to other boys either. I like the sound of it – the idea of causing pain in someone getting in my way or causing me pain.’ ‘It’s all I think about every day but I control myself. ‘I think of killing someone and I smirk,’ it read. Matthew was known for saying sinister things, but did that mean he was actually capable of killing, or was it all talk?īefore Lee had vanished, Matthew had sent a message to a former girlfriend. He told one that he’d chopped his head and hands off so he wouldn’t get caught. Matthew called the group of boys afterwards and said, ‘I killed him. Matthew said he would lure Lee away – and he did.īut the evidence pointed to something more serious happening at the river. Matthew had wanted them to break into Lee’s home and take his PlayStation, belts and some clothes. Investigators started to interview everyone who knew Lee, and some students had a different story about why Matthew had taken Lee to the river that evening.įour of Matthew’s friends said it had been part of a plan to rob Lee.ĬCTV footage of Mathew luring Lee Manuel to his death What police did believe was that it wasn’t a random killing – this was personal. Lee’s hands would never be recovered.Īs well as being decapitated, Lee had been brutally stabbed 76 times.Įxperts struggled to determine whether some wounds took place before or after his final breath. Then he saw an ear, and realised it was a head. He pulled it ashore with a stick, and found it was weighed down with rocks. Later, his head was found by a state trooper who saw a plastic bag bobbing in the river. The corpse had no hands and no head, but a coroner determined it was the body of missing Lee. After two agonising weeks for Lee’s family, who didn’t believe his disappearance was being taken seriously enough, a man walking his dog came across a body on the banks of the Merrimack River.
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