On Friday night, two doctors were found brutally murdered in their penthouse apartment in Boston.
Dr. Richard Field, 49, and his fiancé Dr. Lina Bolanos, 38, were found with their hands tied and throats slit when police responded to a call about a man with a gun at the luxury apartment building.
The couple’s killer, Bampumim Teixeira, was still at the home and shot at police on their arrival. Officials wounded, but did not kill, the 30-year-old and he was taken to hospital for treatment.
A message was written on the walls of the apartment in blood and photos of the couple were cut up on the floor.
Such a personal and brutal attack swiftly begs the question, why?
The attack had to have been well thought out considering the trouble Teixeira would have had entering the building, getting past security, and reaching the penthouse.
“(For) someone to come here, go up to the 11th floor, to the penthouse, we got to believe that somehow there was some type of knowledge of each other,” Boston Police Commissioner William B Evans said, reports WCWB.
Teixeira had just completed nine months sentence for robbing two banks. At the time of his arrest he referred to himself as a ‘security guard’ but upon further investigation police found he didn’t work in security anymore, and that the company he used to work for didn’t look after Field’s building.
There’s speculation that the doctors, specifically Field, could have been involved in the distribution of drug prescriptions and may have been killed after he refused a request from Teixeira.
Others say it may have been a love triangle gone wrong, but that seems unlikely as no friends or family have been able to connect the pair to their killer.
The Boston Globe reports that a set of keys were found by police outside of Field’s apartment door, presumably how Teixeira got up the lift and into the house. Authorities yelled out upon their arrival and when they heard nothing back, used the keys to let themselves in.
According to his ex-girlfriend, Teixeria had called her upon his release from prison and said that he didn’t plan on living for long but that he wouldn’t hurt anyone.
She described him as a “gentleman” who was always kind to her young son.
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