A suspect in the killing of a Maine chef allegedly asked neighbors to help him move a mannequin just before cops found the victim’s body wrapped in duct tape.
Declan Perry, 27, was found dead Saturday in a bloody car with Maine plates parked outside a Massachusetts hospital.
Condo residents in Scituate called police after seeing TV footage of the investigation saying they’d seen their neighbor moving a large item into a black sedan.
The suspect allegedly asked a neighbor to help him and another woman move a large object wrapped in a rug into a car.
Pursuant to a search warrant, police seized a belt, a pair of scissors, a wooden door, a pair of sandals, two web cameras, a piece of mail, and a medical document from a Scituate residence, along with multiple swabs of reddish-brown stains, Boston25News reported.
The suspect reportedly told a neighbor the wrapped object was a hockey-goalie mannequin which was usually filled with water.
Perry, who lived in Portland, worked as head chef at The Grill Room & Bar in the city’s Old Port neighborhood.
His body was found in the rear seat of a Honda Civic in the lot outside South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Massachusetts.
