Jeremias Bins was sentenced to two life terms in prison yesterday for brutally killing his wife and her 11-year-old son in a rampage fueled by his jealousy about her devotion to the Mormon faith.
The couple met when Mormon missionaries invited Bins to their church. Later Bins felt that church members were meddling in his family life, said one family member.
Carla Souza was a dutiful member of the Mormon church, hosting dinner meetings at her house, taking care of children in the nursery school and going out with missionaries to spread the word about her faith.
Her devotion, prosecutors said, didn’t sit well with her husband.
On May 21, 2006, a bloodied Jeremias Bins walked into the Framingham police station and said he had just bludgeoned his wife and stepson with a hammer, authorities said.
CAMBRIDGE — A Framingham man has been indicted in the May 20 beating deaths of his wife and stepson in their Framingham apartment. Jeremias Bins, 30, will be arraigned Monday in Middlesex Superior Court at 2 p.m., charged with two counts of murder after yesterday’s grand jury indictment. On Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., Voices Against Violence will hold a remembrance for Bins’ wife and stepson. Family and friends will gather on Second Street — between Beaver Street and Taralli Terrace — for speeches, song and dance dedicated to the pair’s memory, after the conclusion of Framingham’s National Night Out event.
Hubby turns self in after brutal slayings A Framingham carpenter’s ‘jealous’ rage over his wife’s devotion to her Mormon church may have driven him to beat the housekeeper and her 11-year-old son to death with a hammer Saturday night, friends and investigators said. “He was apparently jealous of her membership,” said Maurice Hiers, president of the local chapters of the Church of Latter Day Saints. “We knew of the challenges she was having because he was jealous of the time she spent here.” Investigators allege Jeremias Bins, 30, bludgeoned to death his wife, Carla Souza, 37, and her son, Caique,
(KUTV) FRAMINGHAM, Mass. A Massachusetts man is under arrest and charged with the beating deaths of his 37-year-old wife and her 11-year-old son. A spokeswoman for the Middlesex District Attorney’s office said the incident occurred around 11 p.m. Saturday night at 27 Gordon Street. Authorities say 30-year-old Jeremias Bins beat his wife, Carla Souza, and her son, Caique, with a hammer. “At the time they (the police) arrived, what they found was an unfortunate scene,” said Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley. “It was Carla Souza evidencing severe head injuries, and with her was her 11-year-old son — also evidencing severe