Eric Sweeney, 17, has been indicted by a New Hampshire grand jury on three counts of first degree murder for the deaths of his sister-in-law, Kassandra Sweeney, 25, and his nephews, Benjamin Sweeney, 4, and Mason Sweeney, who was 23 months.
Emily Palmer is a Senior Crime Writer at PEOPLE, where she has been a reporter since 2023. Her work has frequently appeared in The New York Times and Cosmopolitan Magazine.More than a year after a mother and her two young children were shot dead in their Northfield, N.H., home, the woman’s 17-year-old brother-in-law has been indicted on three counts of first-degree murder.N.H.
The teenager has also been indicted on one count of falsifying physical evidence. Investigators believe that “knowing that an investigation was about to be instituted,” Eric Sweeney tried to “alter, destroy, conceal, or remove a Taurus .40 caliber handgun, with the purpose of impairing its availability in said investigation,” according to the attorney general’s office.
Eric Sweeney is currently behind bars and awaiting arraignment. It is unclear if he's retained an attorney to speak on his behalf.Woman Pleads Guilty to Killing Florida College Student After Attempting to Rob Him in Talladega ForestNanny Convicted of Sexually Abusing 16 Young Boys in His Care: 'Unimaginable Terror'W. Va. Man, Woman Arrested After 2 Children Found Locked in ShedSuspect in Charlotte Sena Kidnapping Has Been Arrested Multiple Times in the PastN.Y.
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