Crime & Safety

Jeffrey Curley's Killer: 'I Wouldn't Hesitate To Do It Again'

A man who spent time in jail with Charles Jaynes doubts his remorse.

A convicted child murder/rapist whose crime was so heinous it almost returned the death penalty to Massachusetts in the ‘90s possibly has a parole hearing on the horizon.

It was originally scheduled for July 2, but has been pushed back at the request of the prisoner.

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In a recent interview with Channel5, an ex-con who encountered Charles Jaynes during his jail time says the killer of 10-year-old Jeffrey Curley hardly seemed remorseful in 2006.

“I wouldn’t hesitate to do it again. I would pull him out of the grave and do it again and again,” Jaynes allegedly shouted in the presence of a man who wanted to be identified as “Bill,” in a Channel5 interview.

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“Bill” was locked up in the same Concord prison as Jaynes in 2006, following an armed assault conviction.

“It was in his gut. It was how he really felt,” “Bill” told the source.

Jaynes, formerly of Brockton, was convicted of second-degree murder and rape in 1997 when he smothered, then molested the body of Jeffrey Curley, nearby the border of East Cambridge and Somerville, then dumped the body in a Maine river.

He last made headlines in 2012, during a failed attempt to legally change his name to “Manasseh-Invictus Auris Thurmose V.”

At that time, Jeffrey’s father Robert, who once worked at the Inman Square Fire Station, expressed similar doubts about his rehabilitation.

“The things that make Charles Jaynes so dangerous are the well-spoken words he had today,” Curley told the court in 2012, according to Boston.com.

“But I tell you, Charles Jaynes is the face of evil.”

Billy and wife Barbara Curley famously filed a $200 million suit against NAMBLA for wrongful death following their son’s murder, in light of Jayne’s affiliation with the organization. They dropped the charges in 2008, after years of litigation.

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