Episode Fifteen | Shaun Ouillette: Forever Fourteen, Canton, Massachusetts (part one)

In the fall of 1986, Shaun Ouillette was the new kid at Canton High in Canton, Massachusetts. The friendly, easy going 14 year old freshman had been having trouble making friends in his new school. Hoping to strike up a new friendship, he took the bus after school on November 20 to another 14 year old's house to buy some fireworks and hang out.
 What almost everyone else didn't know is that Shaun was the target of Rod Matthews' murder plan to "see what it feels like". The details of the planning and execution of are stunning, knowing that 14 year old kids are involved.
 
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Dead of Winter: The Empty Chair - Jeanne Quinn, Shaun Ouillette - Discovery ID
 

https://www.monstersandcritics.com/tv/true-crime/dead-of-winter-features-murder-of-massachusetts-teen-shaun-ouillette

Faces of Death
 
 https://www.ihorror.com/secrets-faces-of-death-finally-revealed

SNL Dunkin Skit
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSvNhxKJJyU

Niche.com has Randolph at #4 for 2021
 
 https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/search/most-diverse-places/s/massachusetts
 

The 25 Most diverse towns in Mass 2019

 https://www.masslive.com/news/2019/08/diversity-in-massachusetts-the-25-most-diverse-towns-and-cities-of-2019.html

Canton Citizen - Reincarnation?
 November 26, 2014
 
 https://www.thecantoncitizen.com/2014/11/26/jeanne-quinn-ghost-inside

AP News - Cash and Peterson testify
 

https://apnews.com/article/1d92155fe6e11a2b6137c6a13ee7319d

LA TIMES - Youngest convict
 March 11, 1988
 

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-11-mn-1345-story.html

Freedom mag - Ritalin and school

https://www.freedommag.org/english/vol36i1/page04.htm

LA Times - Poorly written LA Times article
 
 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-15-ca-7108-story.html

Canton Citizen - Matthews 2016 Parole request
 

https://www.thecantoncitizen.com/2016/03/18/matthews-parole

WBUR COVERAGE - Matthews 2016 Parole Hearing
 March 29, 2016
 

https://www.wbur.org/all-things-considered/2016/03/29/rod-matthews-parole

New York Times - Murder For Thrill Described At Trial
 March 4, 1988
 

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/04/us/murder-for-thrill-described-at-a-trial.html

Boston Globe - Killer Wants To Go Free
 March 29, 2016

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/03/29/rod-matthews-expected-ask-for-freedom-state-parole-board-hearing/SoP6vf2fzoj5L3V3zhfzZP/story.html

Boston Herald - Killer Hasn’t Changed
 March 30. 2016
 

https://www.bostonherald.com/2016/03/30/gelzinis-killer-hasnt-changed-neither-have-the-victims

 Canton Citizen - A Mother’s Nightmare: Jeanne Quinn’s story
 Oct 10, 2012
 
 https://www.thecantoncitizen.com/2012/10/10/matthews-parole-hearing
 

Washington Post - Matthews Gets Life
 March 11, 1988
 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/03/11/youth-15-sentenced-to-life-for-murdering-classmate/6549f5c4-22ae-4c58-bdf2-d31c7eebdc09

Matthews Affidavit
 
 https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/volumes/406/406mass380.html
 
 Freedom magazine - The Fatal Flaw
 
 A deadly incursion into America’s educational system two decades ago spawned a tragic murder
 https://www.freedommag.org/english/vol36i1/page03.htm

New York Times - Murder for Thrill Described at a Trial
 March 1988
 
 https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/04/us/murder-for-thrill-described-at-a-trial.html

WGBH - Should Rod Go Free?
 https://www.wgbh.org/news/2016/03/30/local-news/rod-mathews-should-teen-killer-now-43-go-free-or-remain-prison

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Boston Globe - Why Did Rod Kill Shaun? ''this Murder Was So Preventable,'' Says Thomas Ouillette, The Victim's Father. By Daniel Golden, May 22, 1988

 Https://Search-proquest-com.Ezproxy.Bpl.Org/Bostonglobe/Docview/294476523/C2f7f903ab984b63pq/3?Accountid=9675

Matthews Moved To Danvers Mental Hospital
 

https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/294412680/fulltext/C5532B42FA0C4649PQ/14?accountid=9675
 
 

Matthews Pleads innocent
 

https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/294325359/7DE21F756B884D76PQ/7?accountid=9675

Shaun Ouillette’s family testifies at parole hearing 2016
 
 https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/1776481673/F4393901D0D34FB5PQ/15?accountid=9675

First parole request - 2001
 

https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/405428570/9B63911CFB914181PQ/17?accountid=9675

Don't release a psychopathic killer
 Kenneth Berkowitz, April 24, 2016
 

https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/1783734090/3F8DF46F48AF4F74PQ/4?accountid=9675

Rod Matthews has earned a second chance - break down of supreme court ruling on juveniles
 James Alan Fox, Boston Globe, April 24, 2016
 

https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/1783734018/3F8DF46F48AF4F74PQ/3?accountid=9675

Appeal rejected for youth killer
 Boston Globe, June 2, 1995
 

https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/290743245/376230F51CEE4186PQ/20?accountid=9675

Missing Canton Youth Apparently Murdered
 Boston Globe, December 12, 1986
 
 https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/294311348/643C94F4B2F540E3PQ/1?accountid=9675

Attorneys for Matthews want to implicate other boys

Boston Globe, John Ellement, April 20, 1996
 
 https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/290786222/376230F51CEE4186PQ/19?accountid=9675

Revisiting A Tragedy Of Youth
 Boston Globe, Beverly Beckham, 13 May 2007
 
 https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/405057152/124303E5E0B74639PQ/19?accountid=9675