Mattapoisett man charged with trying to kill wife, son

A Mattapoisett man with a history of domestic disputes and restraining order violations faces two counts of attempted murder for allegedly setting fire to his estranged wife's home while she and their son were ...

[Jan Sprague]

Please, my brother was not trying to kill his wife and son. There are underlying issues in this case. Bill is not in his right frame of mind. Do you realize he is facing The amputation of his leg and that he is sick???

[resident]

Jan Sprague wrote:

Please, my brother was not trying to kill his wife and son. There are underlying issues in this case. Bill is not in his right frame of mind. Do you realize he is facing The amputation of his leg and that he is sick???

then if it was known that he had a problem as you say then someone like his family should have helped before it got to the point where he burned down a house not a minor thing and almost killed two people. just because someone is facing issues that are indeed difficult doesn't mean two others and their lively hood should be taken away.

[curious]

Anyone know how this thing turned out? Is he still in jail?

[pissed_pilgrim]

Oh please. by all meens lets support the mental defective piece of crap. Hell, you're in Ma. lets encourage it!!!

Jan Sprague wrote:

Please, my brother was not trying to kill his wife and son. There are underlying issues in this case. Bill is not in his right frame of mind. Do you realize he is facing The amputation of his leg and that he is sick???

[curious]

Anyone know what is happening with this case?

[Someone in the know]

Jan, I believe the reason why his leg is messed up is because he got into an accident on his motorcycle after leaving a bar.

He is in jail as of now. He goes on trial Tuesday 02/26/08.

[the wanderer]

death does not frighten me ,its living that scares me to death

[curious]

Any word on this?

[curious]

Any word on this?

[curious]

any word on this?

[Marion Mom]

curious wrote:

any word on this?

Yes, believe it or not he went in front of a judge to plead out, he was told nothing under double digits, so he decided to take it to trial. Two days before he was to go on trial he went in front of another judge to plead out and that judge offered him six years. He's not stupid he jumped at that, now he is serving time and he gets time off for taking drug awareness classes. he's also getting his GED. He has his own cell with a tv mind you and get to work out every day so he's looking buff. While other people sit back and suffer with the nightmare of what he did to them and the constant battle just trying to settle thing three after the fact.

[guy in jail with sprage]

sprague cursed his wife everday and tryd to kill her,,he showed no remorse 4 what he did and i lived with him 4 a year,hes not workin out lookin "buff" he sits around all day and feeds a spanish guy to do his cooking because the spanish guy had no money to buy his own food,someone is sending sprage money because he buys drugs "pills " and anything eles he can get his hands on,,he sits around jokes,and this was b4 he was sentenced,watches tv,hes lazy,he dont even cook his own food and hes capable of it,his leg is fine now

[guy in jail with sprage]

and he new exactley who was in the house at the time,i hered it from his own mouth,i acted like his freind because u have to live around people u despize when ur put in a sittuation like i was and r out numbered,but he tryed to kill his family and he is not remorsefull at all,,he bragged about him and his wifes swinging,i dont no if thats true but he despized her and his son took the wifes side,,,he was so happy go lucky getting high in jail like he had no worries in the world,he thought he could munipulate the system and beat the case

[JWooding]

THIS GUY IS SICK AND NEEDS HELP HE IS A PEICE OF CRAP FOR WHAT HE DID i HOPE HIS CHILD IS OLD ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND TO NEVER TALK TO THIS LOOSER HE WILL PAY LATER IN LIFE WHEN HIS KID WANTS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM!!!!

[anonymous]

Messed up family. Swinging was true. Just hope the kids end up alright.

[you idiots]

witnessing a nut, with a history of violence, buying all that gasoline in the wee hours should have raised a red flag...immediately, not '15 minutes later'
wow...your cops are dumb... oh, wait.. y'all are massholes anyhow! hahaha