Parole denied for man convicted in 1997 abduction, murder of 10-year-old

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Charles Jaynes, one of two men convicted for the 1997 abduction and murder of 10-year-old Jeffrey Curley, was denied parole on Friday, Boston 25 News has learned.

Jeffrey was abducted from his Cambridge neighborhood on October 1, 1997. At a 2020 parole hearing, Jaynes admitted he and a friend, Salvatore Sicari, lured Jeffrey into their car with the promise of a bicycle.

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Prosecutors say Jaynes smothered Jeffrey with a gasoline-soaked rag when Jeffrey fought Jaynes’ sexual advances. But at that parole hearing last year, Jaynes said he murdered Jeffrey to impress Sicari who, according to Jaynes, said wanted Jeffrey killed. Jaynes said he was sexually attracted to Jeffrey, but he considered the boy was still too young.

In his parole board appearance, Jaynes said after Jeffrey died, he and Sicari transported the child’s body to Jayne’s Manchester, NH apartment in a Rubbermaid container. And there, Jaynes said, Sicari defiled the boy’s body. The next day, Jaynes said he and Sicari threw the Rubbermaid container into a river in Maine.

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Sicari and Jaynes were both convicted in separate trials. Sicari is serving a sentence of life with no parole for his first-degree murder conviction. But Jaynes, the alleged mastermind of the plot, was found guilty of second-degree murder.

Jaynes told the parole board in 2020 that he made the admission of guilt for the benefit of the Curley family and the people of Massachusetts, and that he did not expect to be released from prison after serving less than 22 years.

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