MA - Bella Bond, 2, found dead, Deer Island, Boston Harbor, June 2015 - #5

[matou]

He moved paper and objects in the apartment and blamed unseen spirits, McMahon said, and stole McMahon’s prescription pills. He demanded that the History Channel be paused during programs about Nazis, so he could ramble about the demonic symbology buried in the images. Every time he looked at the clock on the cable box, he claimed, it was 11:11, except when it was 4:44.


Finally, McMahon said, McCarthy decided the apartment was full of demons — the remnants of those who’d died there.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...ong-descent/9UPZB7U1kHjsDEi96BebyH/story.html

 

[matou]

This week, McMahon said, he found a diary McCarthy left behind when he moved out in January. It was filled with conspiracy theories, McMahon said, and ideas about demonology. McMahon turned the diary over to police.


McMahon said much of McCarthy’s rambling seemed to be bluster: “He knew the difference between right and wrong.”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...ong-descent/9UPZB7U1kHjsDEi96BebyH/story.html

 

[wondering25]

I truly believe they do have evidence against MM.. they just aren't sharing it. This is not Florida.. This is hard hitting Boston.

(I hate when you drop your phone on your face while typing.. [emoji31])

I think it's great they aren't releasing much info. That is good for their case for potential jurors. They won't be tainted by news coverage which I'm sure this is receiving quite a bit up there.

MM was arrested.. one week LATER we see the cops impounding the mattress and refrigerator. IMO, they based the arrest on RB's statement.. some other people saying MM was abusive and the fact they had a dead baby and not much more.. JMO

 

[matou]

Born in Boston and raised in South Boston, where he attended Saint Brigid School, McCarthy struggled socially. A woman who attended middle school with McCarthy said he was an outcast and a target for bullies.


In 1992, when McCarthy was 11, he came to school groggy and red-faced, and told a teacher his father had punched him, according to a letter from Saint Brigid School included in court papers filed in connection with his parents’ 1990 divorce.


His mother, Suzanne, had filed to end visitation with his father, Joseph, avowing in an affidavit that her former husband had struck McCarthy in the face after the boy said he didn’t want to practice baseball at the batting cages.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...ong-descent/9UPZB7U1kHjsDEi96BebyH/story.html

 

[matou]

Joseph McCarthy did not respond to repeated requests to comment for this story.


In a letter to the judge, Michael McCarthy asked for a restraining order against his father. “Please don’t make us go with Dad anymore,” he wrote in neat cursive.


Trouble started soon after. A few months later, McCarthy was arrested for assault with a dangerous weapon, according to probation records obtained by the Globe.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...ong-descent/9UPZB7U1kHjsDEi96BebyH/story.html

 

[matou]

The first evidence of drugs in his life came in 2001, when he was arrested for allegedly trying to pick up someone else’s prescription for the painkiller Vicodin. The case was dismissed when McCarthy agreed to drug evaluation and treatment.


From 2005 through 2010, McCarthy was arrested 10 times, for charges including receipt of stolen property, larceny, shoplifting, and knowingly being in the presence of heroin.


Despite the toll that the drugs were taking on his life, his mother gave him cash to support his habit, a woman who grew up with McCarthy and used drugs with him said.


“He would have hundreds of dollars every day,” said the woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “His mother didn’t want him to be sick or steal.”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...ong-descent/9UPZB7U1kHjsDEi96BebyH/story.html

 

[matou]

Around 2012 and 2013, McCarthy spent time in Braintree, neighbors there said, living in an apartment with his mother and his girlfriend on Weston Avenue.


He made few friends, and domestic disputes occasionally drew the police to the apartment, though McCarthy was never arrested. The girlfriend’s sister, who spoke on the condition she not be named, said McCarthy beat the woman, and that she had seen bruises and a scar on the woman’s arms.


“He was very, very violent,” said Lightbody, who said she also saw the injuries McCarthy inflicted on the girlfriend.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...ong-descent/9UPZB7U1kHjsDEi96BebyH/story.html

 

[matou]

In July 2013, McCarthy’s mother died, the death certificate listing the cause as “complications from chronic pulmonary disease and morbid obesity.”


McCarthy found her body, he wrote in an answer to an eviction complaint shortly afterward. She was his caretaker, he wrote, and he had to “run threw” her bedroom door to get to her body.


He was eventually evicted from the Braintree apartment, to the relief of neighbors.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...ong-descent/9UPZB7U1kHjsDEi96BebyH/story.html

 

[matou]

In August 2014, he and his then-girlfriend moved in with McMahon, who said he finally kicked them both out this winter. They stayed briefly at his father’s Hancock Street plumbing shop. The girlfriend left him.


He grew his hair long, but started haphazardly shaving the dog. He was a fixture around the Topeka Street methadone clinic, slinking in on mornings he couldn’t afford heroin.


“I used to call him the dog boy,” said one man who also frequented the clinic. “He said he was a psychic reader or something,” the man said. “Like he could tell what was going to happen to people.”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...ong-descent/9UPZB7U1kHjsDEi96BebyH/story.html

 

[gcharlie]

Ugh. Must have read too many times. Gotta pay

Me too. :sigh:

 

[matou]

Sometime this spring, he moved in with a woman who was a regular at the methadone clinic around the corner.


Her name was Rachelle Bond, and she had a little girl.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...ong-descent/9UPZB7U1kHjsDEi96BebyH/story.html

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[Dogface]

Full story about McCarthy at the link. Lots of info:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...ong-descent/9UPZB7U1kHjsDEi96BebyH/story.html

Holy smokes, that makes me think RB might be being honest that he is the one that killed her. But how could RB think that bringing in an angry, drug abusing, demon worshipping no job having deadbeat around her child would be a good idea?!?

From that link, I gathered: broken family, abusive father, enabling mother, girlfriend beater.

I don't know that we will ever know the truth about how little Bella's death came to be. I'm not sure either of them know the exact truth. But I do know they are both responsible in this and should pay dearly.

 

[giagreen]

A little O/T, but I was curious how much it costs to buy heroin on the street. I can't imagine being able to sustain this kind of lifestyle.

•An individual with a “hard-core” heroin habit may pay $150 – $200 per day in order to support his or her habit.

http://heroin.net/about/how-much-does-heroin-cost/

That's what I'm sayin. I can barely afford my coffee and cigarettes weekly.

 

[LaLaw2000]

I just wonder if he took RB's word that Bella was his child??? She's a prostitute with a record. I'm not a man so I can't think like a man, but I'm thinking if I was Bella's dad I would have wanted DNA testing and then do the right thing by supporting the child and being a part of her life. He could have gotten custody so easy with RB's lifestyle. Unfortunately, for Bella, I guess JA's lifestyle wasn't much different.

BBM:

Just jumping in here as I catch up. Louisiana makes the mother (ugh, hate to even call RB that) say who the dad is if she is getting public assistance such as housing and/or food stamps/welfare. Even if in another state, there IS a DNA test done so as to go after child support. Does that hold true in Massachusetts? Not all states are reciprocal states. Louisiana is.

MOO

 

[human]

Sorry but explaining the chemical composition of cadaverine doesn't change the fact that the dogs will alert to blood and even scrapes of tissue because both of those emit cadaverine. And yes, the blood is from LIVING HUMANS.

Cadaver dogs are trained using items such as pulled teeth and tampons. Both will contain dead human tissue.



Another source states trainers often use their OWN BLOOD:

The articles are too confusing. They search for dead bodies. Search and rescue dogs search for live people.

Cadaver dogs look for dead people. There are drug dogs. We even saw with Fogle that there are electronic search dogs.

Whatever. A cadaver dog finds dead , not living.

 

[Dogface]

And he had hundreds of dollars daily?!? Enabling mothers can make some of the worst people inadvertently. I wonder how she was able to support his habit? I wonder if she got alimony? It seems his dad owns a store, wonder if it's successful?

 

[human]

OK I will post in chunks:

Even on the cracked blacktop of “Methadone Mile,” a rough stretch of blocks in the South End where recovering addicts congregate to be dosed each morning, Michael McCarthy stood out as wretched and strange, said dozens who knew him.


With a faraway look in his hooded eyes and a little Pomeranian named Bailey cradled in his arms — to detect his seizures, he told people — McCarthy moved slowly and spoke of conspiracies, the occult, and a demon with horns and a long lizard tail.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...ong-descent/9UPZB7U1kHjsDEi96BebyH/story.html

Wow. So he did recognize RB with her long lizard tail.

 

[matou]

What a mess. If this guy is deemed mentally unfit to stand trial, there could only be a charge for the disposal of her Bella's body. JMO

 

[leah]

Sometime this spring, he moved in with a woman who was a regular at the methadone clinic around the corner.


Her name was Rachelle Bond, and she had a little girl.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...ong-descent/9UPZB7U1kHjsDEi96BebyH/story.html

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Thank-you so much for giving us the details of the article. Is he also schizophrenic ?

 

[Dogface]

I will just say I'm so glad to hear about MM finally, thanks so much for posting that article! Junkies of a habit and lifestyle flock together so it seems.

But, I will go ahead and say that my assessment of MM not being as diabolic as RB seems to have been completely wrong.