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| Adam Lee Hall (left), Caius Veiovis (middle) and David Chalue (right). |
From MassLive.com: Two women close to Adam Lee Hall testified Friday that in the weeks right before a Berkshire County triple murder, Hall started spending lot of time with David Chalue and Caius Veiovis.
In August 2011, weeks before he was to testify against Hall, David Glasser and his roommate, Edward Frampton, and their friend Robert Chadwell, all of Pittsfield, disappeared.
Their dismembered bodies were found in Becket nearly two weeks later.
Hall was a ranking member of the local Hells Angels when prosecutors say he, Chalue, 46, of North Adams, and Veiovis, 32, of Pittsfield, kidnapped the three victims from Frampton’s Pittsfield home sometime in the early hours of Aug. 28, 2011, and fatally shot them.
Hall is being tried first.
The trials were moved to Hampden Superior Court after defense lawyers said publicity in Berkshire County would make it impossible for a fair trial.
Hall, 36, of Peru, is facing 20 charges, including multiple counts of murder and kidnapping from three separate incidents involving Glasser as the victim from 2009 through 2011.
Much of Friday was spent on questioning of prosecution witnesses Alexandra Ely, Hall’s girlfriend at the time of the killings, and Rose Dawson, a friend of both Hall and Ely.
Defense lawyer Alan J. Black had fought in pretrial motions to keep the two from testifying about what they said Chalue and Hall did on the night of Aug. 29 at the Hells Angels clubhouse in Lee.
Both testified Friday they went with Chalue and Hall to the clubhouse, which was empty except for the four of them.
Dawson and Ely said the two men got quite drunk.
Dawson said Hall was pretending to run away and saying “help me, help me.” She said Chalue was pointing his hand at Hall with his fingers forward and thumb up.
Hall said something about “you should have seen the look on his face,” but didn’t say whose face, Dawson said. Hall also said, “You should have seen him run and try to get away,” she said.
Ely testified she saw the same scene, she just didn’t remember which one the two men was pretending to run.
Officer Hector Santiago of the Springfield Police Department testified on Aug. 27, 2011, he was assigned to gather information about a party at a tavern on Main Street in Springfield.
It was being hosted by the Berkshire chapter of the Hells Angels. Santiago took photographs of three people getting into a light colored Buick outside the bar.
Ely identified them as Chalue, Hall and Veiovis.
Ely said on the weekend of Hurricane Irene - when the victims disappeared - she was six or seven months pregnant with Hall’s child.
She said Hall and she were together but they were “rocky“ and had issues. She had a kidney infection. She was not speaking with her mother. She was worried about pending charges against her from the 2010 conspiracy with Hall to frame Glasser.
Ely and Dawson said Hall came to the door at Dawson’s Pittsfield home at 1:30 a.m. Aug. 28.
He asked for Dawson’s phone, spoke to them briefly and left.
The next morning, they said, Hall came back and gave Ely very wet money, telling her to get breakfast foods and bleach and meet him at his Peru home.
Hall told both to wash their hands after they handled the money, they said.
When they were at the store, Hall called and said he didn’t need the bleach, they said.
Ely said when they got to Peru, Chalue and Veiovis were tired; Hall was “jumpy.”
Hall was on the phone talking to someone about moving furniture, she said.
The trial continues Tuesday before Judge C. Jeffrey Kinder.
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