The Law

MASSACHUSETTS STATE STATUTES
MURDER
Felony

Up to life in prison

One Count

Chapter 265:

Section 1. Murder committed with deliberately premeditated malice aforethought, or with extreme atrocity or cruelty, or in the commission or attempted commission of a crime punishable with death or imprisonment for life, is murder in the first degree. Murder which does not appear to be in the first degree is murder in the second degree. Petit treason shall be prosecuted and punished as murder. The degree of murder shall be found by the jury.

    Affluent Massachusetts physician Dirk Greineder is convicted of murdering his wife after his secret life — of pornography and prostitutes — came to light    
   
  • Case background
  • Full coverage
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  • Crime scene map
  • Physical evidence
  • Blood spatter chart
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  • Case timeline
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  • Key players
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  • Mass. statutes
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  • Prosecution witnesses
  • Defense witnesses
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  • Porn Motion
    State asks for permission to bring out evidence of Greineder's "prior bad acts" in an attempt to formulate a motive for murder
  • Porn Order
    This decision about what evidence will be admitted reveals Greineder's other life filled with phone conversations with call girls, steamy e-mails and Internet pornography
  • Serial Killer Motion
    In this motion, the defense suggests that Mabel Greineder — the third homicide victim found in a Norfolk County park in less than year — was murdered by a serial killer
  • Indictment
    A grand jury indicted Greineder on Halloween 1999 for beating his wife Mabel until she was dead
  • Search Affidavit
    In this document, a police officer outlines the facts in the case, including the evidence against Greineder, to obtain a search warrant for his home and van.
  • Defense Rulings
    The court rules on topics ranging from blood spatter evidence to alleged statements made by the victim in this order filed in response to defense motions.
  • Discovery Order
    Court addresses issues ranging from credit cards that were seized during a police search that the defendant wants returned to his request for bail.
  • 911 Call
    In the frantic moments after his wife was killed, Dirk Greineder calls 911 from his car phone.
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