WHDH 2/14/13: Victim’s co-worker takes stand in Wayland trial. Testimony in the trial of a Wayland man charged with killing his ex-girlfriend continued on Thursday. Former co-workers of Lauren Astley, who prosecutors say was strangled and stabbed to death by 20-year-old Nathanial Fujita in July 2011, took the stand Thursday. They said Astley was going to meet up with Fujita after work because she was worried about him. Hours later, Astley was dead. Video online here.
Boston Herald 2/15/13: Cop: Fujita calm after killing ex-girlfriend. Nathaniel Fujita calmly answered a police officer’s questions about his missing ex-girlfriend — as the desperate search for Lauren Astley was under way — showing nothing that would indicate he had brutally murdered his former high school sweetheart and dumped her body in a marsh just five hours earlier, a police officer testified yesterday.
Fox25 2/15/13: Fujita trial: Coworkers recall confrontation before brutal murder. The murder trial of Nathanial Fujita continued Thursday morning with statement from the victim’s coworkers recalling the days before her death. Video here.
Metrowest Daily News 2/15/13: Officer: Fujita said he had ‘awkward’ talk with Astley the day she went missing. When police questioned Nathaniel Fujita about Lauren Astley the night she disappeared in 2010, he could not provide details of what he said was a brief conversation with her at his Wayland home.
Wayland Police Sgt. William Smith, testifying Thursday in Middlesex Superior Court during Fujita’s murder trial, said he went to Fujita’s 108 West Plain St., home early on July 4, 2010, as part of the search for the missing Astley.
Wayland Patch 2/14/13: Live Blog from the Wayland Patch.
CBS Boston 2/14/13: Co-Workers Say Wayland Teen Murder Victim Afraid, Concerned About Fujita. Lauren Astley’s co-workers say she talked about being afraid the night she left work to meet with her ex-boyfriend, Nate Fujita. That was the last time they ever saw her. A year-and-a-half later, Fujita is now on trial for her murder.
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Boston Globe 2/14/13: Mother of accused killer Nathaniel Fujita had serious conversation with his girlfriend before she was murdered. A distraught Beth Fujita, the mother of accused murderer Nathaniel Fujita, had a serious conversation with Lauren Astley at the Natick Mall, where Astley worked at a boutique, in the weeks before Astley was killed, according to testimony today from the boutique manager.
CBSLocal 2/14/13: Keller @ Large: Fujita Insanity Defense Likely Won’t Work. As if the family and friends of Lauren Astley haven’t suffered enough since her brutal murder in July, 2011, they must now endure a trial in which the defense lawyer for her accused murderer, Nathaniel Fujita, plans to mount an insanity defense. We’ll see what evidence unfolds in court, but chances are this ploy won’t work. Insanity defenses rarely do.
