by Traciy Curry-Reyes
August 28, 1991: A 16-year-old boy was charged Wednesday after the stabbing death of his 14-year-old girlfriend, whose body was pulled from a nearby pond.
Prosecutors said he slashed her throat, weighted the corpse to make it sink and ridiculed her before dumping the body.
The victim was identified as Amy Carnevale, a popular cheerleader and athlete.The boy said, "It sucks being you, Amy," and laughed as he pushed the body into the water, said Howard Whitehead, Essex County assistant district attorney.
The girl had been missing since Friday. She was last seen arguing with her boyfriend after field hockey practice.
The teen was arrested after authorities found the body in Shoe Pond, near this Boston suburb. He was charged with juvenile delinquency, a Massachussetts requirement in prosecuting youthful offenders.
Prosecutors could pursue adult murder charges against him. He was placed under psychiatric observation, with a status hearing set for Sept. 25.
Eugene McCann, court-appointed lawyer for the boy, said he is innocent.
Carnevale, of Ipswich was set to enter Beverly High School next week as a freshman. The boy was to have begun his sophomore year there.
Police said an unidentified source told them the girl's body had been dumped in the pond, near the United Shoe Machinery Co.
Carnevale's body was found dressed in T-shirt and shorts. She had multiple stab wounds and her throat was cut. The body was weighted with cinderblocks.
Investigators believe two or three other teen-age boys helped bring the body to the pond, but authorities were uncertain whether others would be charged.
August 29, 1991: A teenager accused of stabbing his 14-year-old girlfriend to death allegedly plotted the killing for months and openly told others -- even the victim -- of his plan, the slain girl's friend said Thursday.
A friend of the victim said Fuller had talked openly about killing Carnevale as long as eight or nine months ago. Carnevale had been staying with Diane Wager when she disappeared last Friday.
Jamie P. Fuller, 16, a sophomore at Beverly High School, is being held without bail in the custody of the state Department of Youth Services. He is charged in the slaying of Amy Carnevale, 14, of Beverly. The weighted body of the popular cheerleader was pulled Wednesday from a pond.
A friend of the victim said Fuller had talked openly about killing Carnevale as long as eight or nine months ago. Carnevale had been staying with Diane Wager when she disappeared last Friday.
''He had a plan to kill Amy. He was going to take her for a long walk, give her flowers and kill her,'' said Wager, 15. ''I thought it was a joke.''
Wager said Fuller also told Carnevale that he planned to kill her, but she too dismissed the threat as a joke.
''He told Amy too he was going to kill her and how he was going to do it,'' Wager said.
Prosecutors said they were led to Fuller when one of his friends, Michael Maillet, 19, Salem, confessed to police early Wednesday that he helped Fuller dispose of Carnevale's body.
Assistant county district attorney Howard Whitehead said Fuller told Maillet and two other teenage friends he had taken Carnevale into the woods, stabbed her in the stomach and the back and slashed her throat.
Maillet reportedly told authorities Fuller and Carnevale became separated from the group of teens in the woods and Fuller came out a short ttime later, covered with blood, and said, ''I did it.''
Prosecutors have questioned Maillet and the other two youths, but said Thursday it could be some time before any decision on whether to file additional charges is made.
Prosecutors have said they will push to have Fuller tried as an adult. The youth is currently undergoing a court-ordered 30-day psychiatric evaluation.
Defense attorney Eugene McCann has insisted Fuller is innocent. But during Fuller's arraignment Wednesday, Whitehead depicted the teen as a heartless killer.
The prosecutor said Fuller laughed as he pushed Carnevale's body, wrapped in plastic and weighted with two cement blocks, into Shoe Pond.
''It sucks being you, Amy,'' Whitehead quoted Fuller as saying as he disposed of the body.
Prosecutors have not disclosed a motive. Wager said although Fuller discussed the slaying in advance, he did not say why he wanted his girlfriend dead.
The mother of one of the teenage boys last seen with Carnevale said Fuller was jealous over the cheerleader's supposed flirtations with other boys. The victim and the suspect reportedly had dated off-and-on for nearly two years.
August 31, 1991: Mourners packed a church Saturday for the funeral of a 14-year-old cheerleader allegedly killed by her teenage boyfriend, whose jealous rages reportedly were inflamed by steroid use.
''It isn't fair,'' friend Dawn Winters said. ''I'm just angry that this happened.''
Grieving friends and relatives who attended the service at St. John the Evangelist Church said they were still stunned by the stabbing death of Amy Carnevale and the arrest of her boyfriend, Jamie Fuller, 16.
''It's just unbelievable. I cannot believe it myself,'' said the victim's uncle, Thomas Carnevale.
''It isn't fair,'' friend Dawn Winters said. ''I'm just angry that this happened.''
Fuller, who had been due to begin his sophomore year at Beverly High School this month, was arrested Wednesday. Prosecutors allege Fuller stabbed his young girlfriend, then weighted her body with cement blocks and dumped it in Shoe Pond in Beverly.
Another youth, Michael Maillet, 19, of Salem, was arrested Friday and charged with being an accessory after the fact of murder. Maillet allegedly helped Fuller dispose of the girl's body.
Two other teenagers allegedly knew of the slaying and were in the wooded area where the killing occurred. They have been questioned by police and prosecutors have not ruled out further charges.
Police have not disclosed a motive for the slaying, but friends of both the victim and the suspect have said Fuller was very possessive and would become irrationally jealous when Carnevale, whom he dated for nearly two years, spoke to other boys.
The Boston Herald Saturday quoted several sources as saying Fuller used steroids. The drugs enhance strength and muscle bulk, but can also produce aggressive behavior.
''From what I heard, he was using steroids, and he was on them,'' the newspaper quoted an unidentified law enforcement source as saying. ''Something had to drive that kid to do something bizarre.
''I think it was a combination of things. The steroids make you mad. He's jealous. Between the jealousy and the aggressiveness, he thought, 'If I can't have her, nobody can.'''
October 1992: Jamie Fuller is convicted of murder
Tidbits
Jamie Fuller's mother, Celeste Fuller, plotted to help her son break out of prison. She plead guilty in 1993
You can see a picture of Jamie Fuller here
You can see a picture of Jamie Fuller here
