A Bucks County man was convicted Wednesday of murdering his longtime girlfriend. Judge Raymond McHugh handed down the verdict after a two-day bench trial, during which the final days of Evan Smith and Jamie Beighley’s chaotic romance were laid bare.
A Bucks County man was convicted Wednesday of murdering his longtime girlfriend, strangling her during the kind of alcohol- and drug-fueled fight that punctuatedEvan Smith, 38, was found guilty of third-degree murder, aggravated assault, strangulation, and related offenses in the death of Jamie Beighley, the mother of his three sons. County Judge Raymond McHugh handed down the verdict after a two-day bench trial, during which the final days of Smith and Beighley’s chaotic romance were laid bare.
“What happened in this case was inevitable, not because Evan Smith wanted to kill Jamie Beighley ... but because when you have 18 years of a toxic relationship, it leads to dysfunctional behavior,” he said. “I’m not saying he’s a saint. He’s not,” Eriksen said. “And I’m not saying he isn’t responsible for what happened. He is. But this is not a man who wanted to kill Jamie Beighley.”Niels Eriksen, Evan Smith’s attorney
In a 911 call, played in court Tuesday, Smith frantically orders dispatchers to send an ambulance to the motel, saying that he and Beighley had been drinking, doing drugs, and fighting. He peeled out of the parking lot, narrowly missing the ambulance arriving to take Beighley to Jefferson Bucks Hospital, Sansone said. Another officer testified that he began to chase Smith, but soon broke the pursuit off for his, and Smith’s, safety.
That fellow inmate, William Freimann, testified that Smith told him he strangled Beighley when she came to visit him at the New Falls Motel, and showed Freimann the scars left on his neck and chest by Beighley as she fought for her life. Freimann said Smith almost seemed to be proud of the killing.
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