Boston SWAT officer testifies in double-murder case
A Boston SWAT team member testified on Tuesday that he found a large knife, blood on the floor and the bound bodies of two prominent doctors when he arrived at their South Boston penthouse in 2017 in response to a 911 call.
On the fourth day of testimony in the double-murder trial of Bampumim Teixeira in Suffolk Superior Court, officer Christopher Carr said when he arrived at the home of Lina Bolaños and Richard Field at the Macallen Building on May 5, 2017, he “observed a large knife, as well as blood on the floor and a black bag” in the hallway.
Shortly afterward, as Carr made his way through the penthouse, he discovered something more horrifying.
“I saw a male lying face-down, with his hands behind his back,” he said. “There was no motion, no sign of life at all, no breathing. I checked his pulse, and I did not find a pulse … I observed a large amount of blood around the body.”
Judge Mitchell Kaplan warned jurors that they were about to see photographs of the murder scene that could be difficult to look at.
“I want to make it clear that this case is based strictly on the evidence that’s presented,” Kaplan said.
During a second search of the penthouse, Carr said, he found another body, this time of a woman, also with her hands bound behind her back and surrounded by a large amount of blood.
“She was not breathing,” he said, “and there were no signs of life.”
In one room, the words, “He killed my wife,” were written on a wall, Carr said; there also was an “X” drawn over a picture.
Yesterday morning, jurors were taken to the murder scene.
Field, a 49-year-old British national, worked at North Shore Pain Management in Beverly. A native of Colombia, Bolaños, 38, worked at Massachusetts Eye and Ear. The two planned to marry in 2018.
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