Addict’s appeal of murder scene thievery tossed

The state Appeals Court yesterday upheld the conviction of a heroin addict who stole $240 from a ransacked home on Central Avenue in Falmouth, while the bodies of his murdered neighbors still lay on the floor in the living room and kitchen.

Darryl Green even rifled through the pockets of Crystal Perry, 43, and Kristofer Williams, 24, in search of cash to feed his drug habit, according to the ruling.

No one has been charged in the 2013 double homicide, which remains unsolved.

Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe said at the time that Perry and Williams were beaten and stabbed to death in what appeared to be “an isolated incident.”

Green did not call police to report the bodies, the Appeals Court said.

Green, 45, appealed his 2016 conviction and 2-year sentence for stealing from a building on the basis that his confession to state police was uncorroborated.

Other than his statements, he argued, prosecutors had no evidence that he took anything from his slain neighbors’ house.

The court said Green told investigators he went into the home “looking for drugs,” only to find it “ransacked.” He said he stole $100 off a floor and $140 off a bed, all of which was spent on heroin.

But appellate justices ultimately used Green’s own vivid description of the crime scene to affirm his conviction, noting the way he described “the condition of the house and of the presence of a wallet and jewelry all matched police observations and were the sort of details that would not be known without familiarity with the crime scene.”