Brad Petrishen

During the first week of trial, jurors heard and saw evidence authorities say Locke inflicted upon his cousin’s wife and her three children.

WORCESTER ― A cousin of Mathew Locke, the former Ware man on trial for the horrific 2018 murders of four extended family members in West Brookfield, testified Tuesday about sordid details of Locke’s life at the time of the killings.

Jurors hearing the quadruple homicide trial of Mathew Locke Friday saw nude images saved to his phone prosecutors argue are relevant to the case.

WORCESTER ― Mathew Locke told police he injured his hand on the Feb. 28, 2018, evening he’s accused of killing his cousin’s family in West Brookfield, and gave shifting accounts to police about his actions that night, a state trooper testified this week in Worcester Superior Court.

WORCESTER ― DNA found on the private areas of the mother and young daughter Mathew Locke is accused of murdering was consistent with, and in one case matched, his DNA, a forensic scientist told Worcester Superior Court jurors Wednesday.

WORCESTER ― Mathew Locke, the former Ware man accused of heinously murdering his cousin’s wife and three children in 2018, began putting on his defense Tuesday in Worcester Superior Court, casting aspersions on suggested alternative suspects.

WORCESTER ― Mathew Locke, the former Ware man accused of brutally murdering his cousin’s wife and three children in West Brookfield in 2018, rested his defense Wednesday afternoon, making it likely jurors will begin deliberations Thursday.

WORCESTER ― Jurors heard closing arguments and began deliberations Thursday in the quadruple homicide trial of Mathew Locke, the former Ware man accused of brutally murdering his cousin’s wife and children in West Brookfield in 2018.

Worcester Telegram & Gazette WORCESTER ― A Worcester Superior Court jury has found Mathew Locke guilty of brutally murdering four members of a West Brookfield family on Feb. 28, 2018.

WORCESTER ― One day every year, the second floor of the sprawling Worcester courthouse transforms from an atmosphere of conflict and anxiety to one of comfort and love.