World & Nation
Rejecting defense arguments that a software engineer believed he was traveling back in time to kill Nazis when he fatally shot seven co-workers, a jury on Wednesday found Michael McDermott guilty of seven counts of first-degree murder.
April 25, 2002
A man who is pleading insanity in the killings of seven co-workers testified in the most matter-of-fact way Thursday that he thought he was killing Adolf Hitler and his Nazi henchmen as part of a divine mission to save the world from the Holocaust.
April 12, 2002
One juror and several relatives of victims were overcome by emotion and left the courtroom Friday after seeing graphic photographs and a police video of seven people gunned down in an office massacre.
April 6, 2002
He called himself Mucko, a comical version of the name his nieces and nephews couldn’t pronounce.
Dec. 28, 2000
Entertainment & Arts
The behind-the-scenes feuding between NBC and Walt Disney Co. is bursting into the open in this week’s Time magazine.
April 9, 1996
* Re: “Shooter Kills 7 at Net Firm Outside Boston,” Dec. 27: Another “sick puppy” with guns in hand kills seven.
Jan. 2, 2001
A man on trial for killing seven co-workers tripled his dosage of Prozac before the shootings, a move that may have heightened his rage and sparked the shooting spree, a defense psychiatrist testified Wednesday.
April 18, 2002
Technology and the Internet
A software tester for a Boston-area Internet consulting firm was indicted Thursday for allegedly killing seven colleagues during the Dec. 26 shooting rampage at Edgewater Technology Inc.
Feb. 16, 2001
A man accused of killing seven co-workers asked office colleagues to sign his will as witnesses four days before the shooting, one of theemployees testified in Cambridge for the prosecution.
April 9, 2002
Business
Frustrated by a lagging stock price, Leslie’s Poolmart said Thursday that it has agreed to be taken private by a group led by Chairman Michael Fourticq and Chief Executive Brian McDermott.
Feb. 28, 1997