Defense lawyer Jeffrey Denner told the Globe that his client has a significant history of mental illness and had been diagnosed with a multiple personality disorder as a child.
In this July 25, 2013 photo, Edwin Alemany is led from district court in Boston after a hearing. Boston Police said Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, that Alemany, who was being held in connection with two recent attacks on women, had been charged with the murder of Amy Lord, 24, of Wilbraham. Lord was found stabbed to death on July 23 in a Boston park. BOSTON - Boston police have released a report detailing the final moments of Amy Lord's life.
According to the report, 28-year-old Edwin J. Alemany allegedly stabbed Lord, 24, in the neck and torso before strangling her on July 23.
The report said the South Boston resident died from “sharp force injuries to the neck and torso and asphyxia by strangulation," the Boston Globe reported.
Alemany, a former busboy, was connected to the death of Lord through surveillance video footage, DNA evidence and witness statements.
Jeffrey A. Denner, a Boston criminal defense attorney for Alemany, told the Globe he believed his client was competent and cognizant of the charges against him.
Alemany is undergoing psychological evaluations at Bridgewater State Hospital, where he and his lawyer met.
“He was competent to speak to me, and I felt he understood who I was and what was going on,” Denner said.
Police officials say that before killing Lord, Alemany, who had been living recently in South Boston, attacked her in the vestibule of her Dorchester Street apartment early in the morning of July 23, then drove her to five ATMs to withdraw cash.
Alemany was called a person of interest in Lord’s killing until authorities ran DNA tests and charged him this week with her homicide. Before that, he had been charged with assaulting two other women in South Boston within 24 hours of Lord’s death.
Denner told the Globe that his client has a significant history of mental illness and had been diagnosed with a multiple personality disorder as a child.
Lord was buried Tuesday in Wilbraham, the town in which she grew up and became an honor student and captain of her cheerleading squad before going to Bentley University in Waltham. She had taken a job as an online marketing specialist at the time of her death.
At her memorial service, tributes were paid to a kind, spirited young woman who was devoted to her family and friends.