July 31, 2026

1. 09:15Judge William F. Sullivan explained the view to the jurors: they would be driven past the CVS pharmacy and the ThreeV restaurant and then walk through the house where the children died, with counsel along to point out what to look at. East Idaho News. NBC10 records him telling them that what they were about to see counted as part of the evidence in the case. OUTLETS DISAGREE ON THE GROUPINGS: East Idaho News, the Associated Press and Fox News describe three groups of six, the Boston Globe a jury of eighteen including six alternates taken through in groups of three. Boston 25's legal analyst Elyse Hershon explained that counsel could direct the jurors' attention to a place but could not tell them what happened there.
2. 09:20The terms of the view as East Idaho News records them: no touching anything, no opening closet doors. The judge, the prosecutors and defense counsel attended. The defendant was permitted to go and did not; the Associated Press notes she has not seen the house since the day of the killings. Police closed the roads to the property and the press was held a hundred yards back. CBS Boston adds, from the court order, that the jurors could inspect the exterior, the basement and every room on the first and second floors. The Boston Globe adds that access was limited to counsel on both sides, court staff and the jury. The Associated Press notes the house now has a different owner.
3. 09:50The first group of jurors reached the Summer Street house and came off the bus. East Idaho News.
4. 09:58A group of jurors was inside the house. East Idaho News.
5. 10:40All the jurors had finished at the house and were on the way back to Plymouth. The Associated Press and Fox News put the whole visit at about forty minutes; the Boston Globe puts about forty minutes inside the house. Jurors also saw the basement where the children were found and the yard beneath the second-floor window.
6. 11:36The jury was back in the courtroom and the sitting resumed. East Idaho News; Boston 25 opens its play-by-play at 11:42.
7. 12:18Maffeo and Lippard were both done. Boston 25 records a sidebar before Dr. Tenerowicz was called; what was argued is not reported.
8. 12:38The Commonwealth entered the hospital records for Cora, Dawson and Callan from South Shore Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Plymouth. Boston 25.
9. 12:39Judge Sullivan released the jury for the weekend with the usual warning about publicity, and told them to return Monday at 9 a.m. East Idaho News, which also records him saying he expected a late start on Monday and that testimony would run the full day. Boston 25 puts the dismissal shortly before 12:45 and records him saying he had matters to take up with both sides. boston.com records him saying the trial was well on schedule if not ahead. Nothing is reported about what was taken up after the jury left.

Friday opened away from the courthouse. Judge William F. Sullivan sent the jury out to see the places the first week of evidence had described: the ThreeV restaurant in Plymouth, about five and a half miles from the house, and the CVS in Kingston, about a mile from it, both driven past rather than entered, and then the family's former house on Summer Street in Duxbury. East Idaho News's live blog records the judge explaining the view at about 9:15 and the jurors reaching the house at about 9:50, with the last of them finished and on the way back by 10:40. The terms had been set in advance: the exterior, the basement and every room on the first and second floors were open to them, they could not open closet doors and could not touch anything, access was limited to counsel, court staff and the jury, and the press was held a hundred yards off. The Boston Globe reports that Judge Sullivan had allowed the view over an objection from the current owner of the house during pretrial proceedings. NBC10 reports him telling the jurors that what they were about to see counted as evidence in the case. The defendant did not go; the Associated Press notes she has not seen the house since the day of the killings. Outlets do not agree on how the jurors were split: East Idaho News, the Associated Press and Fox News describe three groups of six, and the Boston Globe describes a jury of eighteen including six alternates taken through in groups of three.

Court resumed at about 11:36, and the sitting that followed belonged almost entirely to the hospital. Marcanthony Maffeo, a Duxbury detective in January 2023 and a sergeant by the time of trial, was sent to South Shore Hospital that night and found the defendant sedated and unconscious with lacerations to her arms and neck; he never spoke to her. He took her cut-off clothing and jewelry from hospital staff and handed it to a state trooper, then went back to Summer Street and was there while the State Police executed a search warrant. His cross-examination was the longest work of the day, and it was the defense putting the physical evidence of a suicide attempt in front of the jury through a Commonwealth witness: the neck cut running the full width, the slices across both wrists, blood inside and outside her clothing, blood on the ground below the window, on the windowsill and ledge and on two shingles beneath it, blood on the bedroom floor and at the end of the bed and up the wall, and a bloodied knife on the nightstand. On redirect Maffeo agreed that nobody at South Shore was treating the cuts to her neck and wrists while he was there. He also marked the limits of his own knowledge: he was not present when the pill bottles were seized, and not present when the nightstand drawer was opened.

Officer Richard Lippard, recalled after his shift had ended to take the custody watch, described a patient who never spoke to him at South Shore, on the MedFlight to Brigham and Women's, or in the emergency room there, across a stretch he put at fifteen to sixteen hours. On direct he said only that there had been some kind of medical code during the night and that he did not know what it was; the term code blue, the time of about 2:24 a.m. and the characterization of the room as bedlam all came from Kevin Reddington's questions, which Lippard agreed with, including that a code blue meant she was dead or dying. He did not recall her being handcuffed to the bed. Then two emergency physicians from Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth, neither of whom the defense cross-examined. Dr. Mark Tenerowicz had been told Dawson was reportedly strangled and had been found with no pulse and not breathing; the boy arrived intubated with CPR under way, with ruptured blood vessels on his face, and adrenaline and calcium made no difference. After about forty minutes at the hospital on top of what the paramedics had already done, Tenerowicz pronounced him dead at 7:28 p.m. Dr. Benjamin Kaufman treated eight-month-old Callan, whose heart restarted after roughly ten minutes of compressions, a breathing tube and a dose of epinephrine, but who never breathed on his own, never showed any brain function and scored the lowest possible on the Glasgow Coma Scale before being flown to Boston Children's. The defendant covered her face and shook through both. Melissa Arcadipane, the specimen processing supervisor in the South Shore laboratory, closed the day with the chain of custody on the toxicology: a preservation notice on the defendant's blood and urine on January 24, more than six vials of blood and one urine sample, collected by a trooper with a warrant days later. The Commonwealth entered the three children's hospital records, and Judge Sullivan released the jury for the weekend at about 12:39, saying he had matters to take up with both sides and, by boston.com's account, that the trial was well on schedule if not ahead.

Sources: b25-juryview, globe-day-04, cbs-day-04, boston-0731, eastidaho-day-04, eastidaho-day-04-recap, ap-day-04, abc7-day-04, fox-day-04, nbc10-day-04

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