‘I just murdered four people’
Neighbor: Slay suspect made shocking claim
When a young man appeared on Wagner Alcocer’s doorstep naked and covered in mud and scratches Friday evening, the 52-year-old Groton resident said he didn’t believe the chilling message the stranger calmly delivered through his front door: “I need help. I need help. I just murdered four people.”
Alcocer said he and his wife were working on their computer about 6 p.m. when she noticed someone calling for help outside their door.
“She said Wagner, there’s someone yelling, ‘help,’ ” Alcocer told the Herald yesterday. “Right at the door, literally two feet from me, there’s a young man, completely naked, no shoes, no socks, nothing, covered in mud, wet.”
At first, Alcocer said he didn’t believe the man, later identified by police as Orion Krause, and assumed he was on drugs or having mental health issues.
“He said it in a very calm way. Not raising his voice, just very, very steady,” Alcocer recalled. “No emotion, just normal talking.”
After asking Krause to sit down in a chair in the backyard, Alcocer said he called the police. The 22-year-old’s one request, he said, was sleeping pills.
“He was very calm, when he sat down on the chair,” Alcocer said. “He showed no emotion, he was like a statute.”
Soon after the police arrived and led Krause down his driveway in a white sheet, Alcocer said detectives told him the stranger’s claim appeared to be true.
“It was beyond belief,” Alcocer said. “That in the condition he was in he would do something like that.”
Detectives found the bodies of four people, apparently bludgeoned to death, both inside and outside a nearby house, officials said.
Two women and a man were found inside the home and the body of another woman was discovered outside, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan.
The victims, whose names were not released last night, were described by Ryan as two middleaged women and an older man and woman.
She said the victims shared “familial relationships” with Krause.
A murder weapon was recovered at the scene, though Ryan declined to say what it was.
Krause is expected to be arraigned on four counts of murder at a later date.
Word of a quadruple murder investigation sent shockwaves through the small, tight-knit rural community.
“It’s a total surprise that something like this would happen in Groton,” said Jack Feeney, 84. “You see enough on television to know it can happen anywhere at anytime. But it’s shocking.”