Youngest person in the history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to be convicted of Murder in the first degree. His death sentence was commuted to life in solitary confinement. He spent 40 of his 56 years in solitary confinement for the murder and mutilation of four year old Horace Millen. He also confessed to the murder of 10 year old Katie Curran who's body was found in the basement of his mother's dress shop.
Jesse had a previous history of torturing children that he held captive, for which he was eventual sent to the State Reform School in Westborough, MA. but was released back to his mother's care at the age of 14.
Jesse preferred solitary confinement throughout his incarceration, fighting efforts to get him a job in the prison and even his eventual transfer out of solitary. He made numerous escape attempts, even losing sight in one eye during one attempt. Pomeroy attempted many times to get a pardon, and in 1927 Clarence Darrow, who considered Jesse to be a brilliant man, took up his case but to no avail. Jesse's mother also fought for her son's release until her death. Jesse made money on the stock market while in jail, leaving enough that he was not buried in a paupers field or the prison cemetery. He was cremated and eventually interred between the graves of his mother and his niece. There is no headstone for his grave.∼Murderer. He was the youngest serial killer in history. As he was growing up, he was a sadistic bully, and in 1872 he was arrested for nearly killing one small boy. At the age of 14 he beat a little child so badly that it knocked out an eye, Pomeroy then stabbed the child fifteen times and he made no attempt to conceal the body. His other victim was a girl by the name of Katie Curran. Jesse lived out his life in prison, it is known that his confinement of 58 years remains the longest recorded imprisonment in American criminal history. There is a book about Jesse which is titled 'Fiend.'
The Boston Globe of October 4, 1932, page 26 reports:
Weymouth - Oct 3- "Without any religious ceremony the ashes of Jesse Pomeroy, Charlestown Prison lifer, who died of heart disease in his cell at Bridgewater State Farm, were buried today in a single grave, between those of his sister and mother , in the North Weymouth Cemetery. The body was cremated in the Forest Hills Crematory.
At the grave, when the tiny casket containing the ashes was covered with earth, were some relatives of Pomeroy and William M. Finn, former altar boy and heir to Pomeroy's possessions."
Jesse had a previous history of torturing children that he held captive, for which he was eventual sent to the State Reform School in Westborough, MA. but was released back to his mother's care at the age of 14.
Jesse preferred solitary confinement throughout his incarceration, fighting efforts to get him a job in the prison and even his eventual transfer out of solitary. He made numerous escape attempts, even losing sight in one eye during one attempt. Pomeroy attempted many times to get a pardon, and in 1927 Clarence Darrow, who considered Jesse to be a brilliant man, took up his case but to no avail. Jesse's mother also fought for her son's release until her death. Jesse made money on the stock market while in jail, leaving enough that he was not buried in a paupers field or the prison cemetery. He was cremated and eventually interred between the graves of his mother and his niece. There is no headstone for his grave.∼Murderer. He was the youngest serial killer in history. As he was growing up, he was a sadistic bully, and in 1872 he was arrested for nearly killing one small boy. At the age of 14 he beat a little child so badly that it knocked out an eye, Pomeroy then stabbed the child fifteen times and he made no attempt to conceal the body. His other victim was a girl by the name of Katie Curran. Jesse lived out his life in prison, it is known that his confinement of 58 years remains the longest recorded imprisonment in American criminal history. There is a book about Jesse which is titled 'Fiend.'
The Boston Globe of October 4, 1932, page 26 reports:
Weymouth - Oct 3- "Without any religious ceremony the ashes of Jesse Pomeroy, Charlestown Prison lifer, who died of heart disease in his cell at Bridgewater State Farm, were buried today in a single grave, between those of his sister and mother , in the North Weymouth Cemetery. The body was cremated in the Forest Hills Crematory.
At the grave, when the tiny casket containing the ashes was covered with earth, were some relatives of Pomeroy and William M. Finn, former altar boy and heir to Pomeroy's possessions."
Youngest person in the history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to be convicted of Murder in the first degree. His death sentence was commuted to life in solitary confinement. He spent 40 of his 56 years in solitary confinement for the murder and mutilation of four year old Horace Millen. He also confessed to the murder of 10 year old Katie Curran who's body was found in the basement of his mother's dress shop.
Jesse had a previous history of torturing children that he held captive, for which he was eventual sent to the State Reform School in Westborough, MA. but was released back to his mother's care at the age of 14.
Jesse preferred solitary confinement throughout his incarceration, fighting efforts to get him a job in the prison and even his eventual transfer out of solitary. He made numerous escape attempts, even losing sight in one eye during one attempt. Pomeroy attempted many times to get a pardon, and in 1927 Clarence Darrow, who considered Jesse to be a brilliant man, took up his case but to no avail. Jesse's mother also fought for her son's release until her death. Jesse made money on the stock market while in jail, leaving enough that he was not buried in a paupers field or the prison cemetery. He was cremated and eventually interred between the graves of his mother and his niece. There is no headstone for his grave.∼Murderer. He was the youngest serial killer in history. As he was growing up, he was a sadistic bully, and in 1872 he was arrested for nearly killing one small boy. At the age of 14 he beat a little child so badly that it knocked out an eye, Pomeroy then stabbed the child fifteen times and he made no attempt to conceal the body. His other victim was a girl by the name of Katie Curran. Jesse lived out his life in prison, it is known that his confinement of 58 years remains the longest recorded imprisonment in American criminal history. There is a book about Jesse which is titled 'Fiend.'
The Boston Globe of October 4, 1932, page 26 reports:
Weymouth - Oct 3- "Without any religious ceremony the ashes of Jesse Pomeroy, Charlestown Prison lifer, who died of heart disease in his cell at Bridgewater State Farm, were buried today in a single grave, between those of his sister and mother , in the North Weymouth Cemetery. The body was cremated in the Forest Hills Crematory.
At the grave, when the tiny casket containing the ashes was covered with earth, were some relatives of Pomeroy and William M. Finn, former altar boy and heir to Pomeroy's possessions."
Jesse had a previous history of torturing children that he held captive, for which he was eventual sent to the State Reform School in Westborough, MA. but was released back to his mother's care at the age of 14.
Jesse preferred solitary confinement throughout his incarceration, fighting efforts to get him a job in the prison and even his eventual transfer out of solitary. He made numerous escape attempts, even losing sight in one eye during one attempt. Pomeroy attempted many times to get a pardon, and in 1927 Clarence Darrow, who considered Jesse to be a brilliant man, took up his case but to no avail. Jesse's mother also fought for her son's release until her death. Jesse made money on the stock market while in jail, leaving enough that he was not buried in a paupers field or the prison cemetery. He was cremated and eventually interred between the graves of his mother and his niece. There is no headstone for his grave.∼Murderer. He was the youngest serial killer in history. As he was growing up, he was a sadistic bully, and in 1872 he was arrested for nearly killing one small boy. At the age of 14 he beat a little child so badly that it knocked out an eye, Pomeroy then stabbed the child fifteen times and he made no attempt to conceal the body. His other victim was a girl by the name of Katie Curran. Jesse lived out his life in prison, it is known that his confinement of 58 years remains the longest recorded imprisonment in American criminal history. There is a book about Jesse which is titled 'Fiend.'
The Boston Globe of October 4, 1932, page 26 reports:
Weymouth - Oct 3- "Without any religious ceremony the ashes of Jesse Pomeroy, Charlestown Prison lifer, who died of heart disease in his cell at Bridgewater State Farm, were buried today in a single grave, between those of his sister and mother , in the North Weymouth Cemetery. The body was cremated in the Forest Hills Crematory.
At the grave, when the tiny casket containing the ashes was covered with earth, were some relatives of Pomeroy and William M. Finn, former altar boy and heir to Pomeroy's possessions."
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