14 year has been charged as an adult with murder and aggravated rape in the October 2013 slaying of Ritzer, a popular 24-year-old teacher at Danvers High School. He has pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors allege in previous court filings that on Oct. 22, 2013, Chism followed Ritzer into the girl’s bathroom after school, raped her and “repeatedly asphyxiated her before or while assaulting her with a box cutter.”
They said Chism put Ritzer’s mutilated body in a recycling bin and dumped it in the woods. He also took Ritzer’s cellphone, which he destroyed, and her wallet, which he used a credit card from to buy fast food and attend a movie at the mall later that day, according to prosecutors.
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