Guilty Verdict In Peabody Double Murder Trial

PEABODY, MA — A Salem Superior Court jury found Wes Doughty guilty Friday in the 2017 killing of Mark Greenlaw and Jennifer O'Connor. Doughty will receive the mandatory life sentence for first degree murder when he is sentenced on Monday. Defense attorneys did not dispute that Doughty killed the couple in a Peabody home in 2017, but instead tried to convince the jury to convict him of manslaughter.

The jury also found Doughty guilty of trying to burn down the house to hide evidence and carjacking a missionary as he fled days after the murders.

Doughty shot Greenlaw in the head with a shotgun, then raped and stabbed his girlfriend, O'Connor, 20 times inside a house at 19 Farm Avenue in Peabody in February 2017. Doughty's co-defendant, Michael Hebb, pleaded guilty in October 2017 to helping cover up O'Connor's murder and trying to burn down the house. He was sentenced up to seven years in prison.

The home on Farm Avenue in Peabody where the murders occurred in February 2017 was portrayed as a flophouse for drug users in testimony in the trial, which opened on Monday.