Boston Herald
April 6, 2014
A 62-year-old Chelsea man has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a 20-year-old Everett woman during a dispute.
Clarence Earl Berry was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty Thursday in Middlesex Superior Court to murder in the January 2012 death of Jessica Cormier.
Prosecutors say Berry and Cormier knew each other and had exchanged phone calls during a disagreement in the hours before the killing. Berry stabbed her on the street outside her home.
Authorities said Cormier’s mother heard screams and found her stabbed on the porch of her apartment building. She was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Berry was tied to the killing by DNA evidence from the blood on his clothing.