Jeffrey John Curley
(June 9, 1987 – October 1, 1997)

Jeffrey John Curley was a 10 year old freckled-faced young boy with blue eyes growing up just outside Boston in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the son of Bob and Barbara Curley and the youngest brother of Shaun and Bobby. Jeffrey played baseball, hockey, and basketball in the neighborhood, was well liked by everyone who knew him, loved to ride his bicycle, was a bright little boy, loved ice-skating and had a great sense of humor; and like many children growing up his age, he was a very innocent little boy, very trusting of others, and once dreamed of being a fireman someday. Jeffrey Curley was the portrait of an All-American young boy who had a passion for life and then on the afternoon of October 1, 1997, while visiting his grandmother’s house near his home, he said to her “Nana, I have to go do something. I’ll be back in 10 minutes.” She was the last person to see young Jeffrey before he disappeared.

The rest of the story of this 10 year old boy, who had the whole world ahead of him will never be truly known, however, from most accounts, this is what happened: Charles Jaynes of Brockton, MA and Manchester, NH, a pedophile, and member of NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association), a then 22 year old, who was already wanted on 75 outstanding warrants in 18 Massachusetts courts and that apparently no one was looking for on the warrants for his arrest, and Salvatore “Salvi” Sicari of Cambridge, MA, a then 21 year old (another pedophile) also with a rap sheet ranging from selling cocaine in a school zone to assault and battery of a mother, lured Jeffrey Curley into Charles Jayne’s 1983 Cadillac Fleetwood with the promise of $50.00 and a new bike.

As reported by Yvonne Abraham of the Boston Phoenix:

“According to Sicari’s confession, he and Jaynes picked Jeffrey up on Hampshire Street between 3:00 and 3:30 in the afternoon of October 1st, promising to buy him a new bike in Newton. They stopped to buy some gas, and Sicari says Jaynes soaked a rag with it and demanded sex from Jeffrey, in the back of the car. The child refused. Jaynes placed the rag over Jeffrey’s mouth and the boy struggled, furiously. Sicari says the 85-pound 10-year-old fought the 250-pound Jaynes for a long time before he died. The young boy fought and fought with his attacker for over 20 minutes until suffocating from the gas-soaked rag jammed into his mouth. Then Sicari says Jaynes put Jeffrey in the trunk and drove to the Honda dealership in Newton. There, they worked on a car for a few hours, while Jeffrey lay dead in the Cadillac. The two then stopped to buy cement, a plastic container, and some alcohol and drove to Jaynes’s apartment in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Jaynes, according to Sicari’s confession, wrapped Jeffrey’s body in a blue tarp and took it into the apartment, then undressed it. He cut a button and a label from the child’s trousers to keep as souvenirs. He laid Jeffrey’s body on a plastic bag on the kitchen floor and sodomized him. Sicari claims Jaynes told him to molest the body too, but that he refused.

At 2:30 a.m., Sicari said, they mixed the concrete in the Rubbermaid container and placed Jeffrey’s body in it, on its side. They put lime on his eyes and mouth to speed decomposition, then drove to South Berwick, Maine and flung the container off a bridge into the Great Works River.”

Sicari was later charged and convicted of first-degree murder and kidnapping, and is serving life in prison with no possibility of parole. Charles Jaynes was picked up by police at his work at a Honda dealership in Newton, MA. When Charles Jayne’s boss had called Newton Police, Jayne’s already had 75 outstanding warrants for his arrest and was one of the primary suspects in Jeffrey Curley’s disappearance.

Charles Jayne’s trial was moved out of the Boston area at the request of his defense lawyers, they argued that their client could not get a fair trial because of all of the publicity surrounding the case locally, so the case was heard by jurors in Worcester County, about an hour’s drive west of Boston. On Friday, December 11, 1998, Charles Jaynes was convicted of second-degree murder and kidnapping of Jeffrey Curley and was sentenced to life in prison; he will be eligible for parole in the year 2021.

This senseless and horrible story of an innocent 10 year old boy named Jeffrey Curley who was victimized by two dangerous thugs and sexual deviants, pointed out the serious public safety threat those fugitives with outstanding warrants present to hiring managers and the general public. Throughout the United States, millions of warrants are outstanding for people wanted for very serious crimes, including “murderers,” “cop killers” and “rapists.”

This problem was highlighted extensively during and after the trial of Jeffrey Curley’s killers over a decade ago. The problem was brought to government officials, especially in Massachusetts, while in the late 1990’s, it was estimated to be only 20% of all outstanding warrants were listed with the FBI, which police use for background checks on suspects. The list of outstanding warrants has grown from 340,000 in 1990, to greater than 500,000 over a decade ago, to today’s estimate of between 1.9 and 2.7 million. Clearly, the problem has increased to epidemic proportions, and has gotten worse and not better.

The second case that highlights the outstanding warrant problem involves Christopher Palermo of Pittsburg, NH, a tiny town on the northern most part of New Hampshire, near the Canadian Border. Palermo was arrested in April 2007, after allegedly kidnapping his boss, Jonathan Wolfgram, and forcing him to drive Palermo all the way to a train station in downtown Boston. According to the victim’s statement to the Boston Police, once at the train station, the suspect forced his boss to purchase a train ticket so that he could escape outstanding arrest warrants. Evidently, Palermo told his boss, Wolfgram, that he knew where his (Wolfgram’s) father lived, and said that he would cause harm to him if he did not cooperate. The suspect said that he had hurt other people in the past. Palermo was arrested and charged with Kidnapping, Unlawfully Carrying a Dangerous Weapon, and Several Outstanding Warrants from Gloucester, a county east of Boston, MA.

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