Their captor, later identified as Daniel LaPlante, would go on to kill pregnant woman Priscilla Gustafson and her children, 7-year-old Abigail and 5-year-old William. Born in 1970, LaPlante grew up on ...

Daniel LaPlante was 17 years old in 1987 when he raped and shot 33-year-old Priscilla Gustafson and then drowned 7-year-old Abigail and 5-year-old William in their home. LaPlante, now 46 ...

WOBURN — Priscilla Gustafson’s siblings, relatives and friends never asked to designate a courtroom as a spot for family gatherings. They never asked for microphones and cameras to be shoved ...

WOBURN — Priscilla Gustafson’s siblings, relatives and friends never asked to designate a courtroom as a spot for family gatherings. They never asked for microphones and cameras to be shoved ...

Priscilla Rachel (Wade) Gustafson, 79, died Friday, (January 3, 2003) at Meriden Center, in Meriden, after a long illness. She leaves her husband of 59 years, Howard I. Gustafson of Middletown.

“I, personally, could pull the switch,” Barton said, recalling the brutal murders 20 years ago of Priscilla Gustafson, 33, and her two young children in their Townsend home on Dec. 1, 198 ...

The last time the family of Priscilla Gustafson saw the man who killed her and her two young children, he had just been sentenced to three consecutive life terms — the maximum punishment allowed ...

Saleh gave a vivid account Wednesday of LaPlante’s memories of the 1987 murders of Priscilla Gustafson, her 7-year-old daughter, Abigail, and son, William, 5, during a hearing in Middlesex ...

Daniel LaPlante was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences without parole in the 1987 deaths of 33-year-old Priscilla Gustafson, 7-year-old Abigail and 5-year-old William in Townsend.

LaPlante is the then-teenager who shot and killed Priscilla, 33, and drowned their children Abby, 7, and Billy, 5 in their home Dec. 1, 1987. Gustafson stopped practicing law to work for the ...