A jury convicted the spouse of a longtime Boston firefighter together with his stabbing homicide.
A Plymouth Superior Court docket jury deliberated for roughly two and a half hours Friday earlier than convicting Christine Ricci, 49, of Marshfield, on costs of second-degree homicide and assault and battery by the use of a harmful weapon — a knife — within the Jan. 28, 2021, homicide of her husband, 51-year-old Michael Ricci, who was a Boston firefighter for 23 years.
Marshfield Police responded to the Ricci household house at 679 Moraine St. a little bit earlier than 5 p.m. that day. First responders labored to stabilize Michael Ricci earlier than he was transported to South Shore Hospital to be handled for stab wounds to his left chest and one other to his left shoulder space. He was pronounced useless at round 5:30 p.m.
Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham, in her opening arguments initially of the five-day trial, stated that the couple had a verbal and bodily argument forward of Christine Ricci stabbing her husband to demise and that this remaining altercation was “not the first time the defendant brought a knife to an argument.”
Buckingham, in her opening assertion, stated that Michael Ricci had an affair within the fall of 2018, which was “the major turning point.” The couple determined to “stay together and work on their family,” and that Michael Ricci was dedicated to doing “everything he could to make things right and keep his family together.”
“The defendant, on the other hand, continuously talked about and focused on infidelity for over two years,” Buckingham stated, including that the defendant beat, abused and tried to “control” her husband throughout that point.
“This affair was like a pot of water simmering on a stove. And over the period of time between 2018 and January 2021, the defendant continued to turn up the heat on that pot by bringing up that affair over and over until that simmering pot of anger, jealousy and control boiled over on Jan. 28, 2021.”
A consultant for Boston Firefighters Native 718 IAFF advised the Herald the union had no touch upon the tragedy “out of respect for the family.”
Decide Diane Freniere scheduled sentencing for Aug. 22.
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