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"His loss — a wound that will never heal," Sue Hale, the mother of Liam Hale, said of her son during Monday's sentencing hearing for Bourgoin, 38. Chittenden County prosecutors overcame an insanity defense in May to secure five murder convictions in the teens' deaths, with a jury finding Bourgoin got on the highway going the wrong way — speeding, then turning suddenly to crash into the kids' car. "She was my everything," Bella Harris, Mary Harris’s sister, said at Monday's hearing. "She was my best friend." "I'm not sure if anything compares to the pain and heartbreak and devastation of...

Vermont high court upholds conviction in wrong-way crash death of 5 FILE - In this May 15, 2019, file pool photo, Steven Bourgoin watches during his murder trial in Vermont Superior Court in Burlington, Vt. Bourgoin, who was was convicted in May of murder in the deaths of five teenagers killed on an interstate highway in a wrong-way crash, is seeking a new trial. Attorneys for Bourgoin acknowledged he caused the October 2016 crash but said he was insane at the time. (Glenn Russell/VTDigger.org via AP, Pool, File) Glenn Russell The family of Mary Harris, who was killed along with four other t...

High court upholds conviction in wrong-way crash death of 5 March 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Supreme Court on Friday upheld the conviction of the man who drove the wrong-way on Interstate 89 in Richmond in 2016, killing five teenagers. The court rejected the argument by attorneys for Steven Bourgoin that prosecutors had failed to prove he intended to kill the teenagers and that the trial court admitted undisclosed testimony at the trial. "We conclude that this evidence was sufficient for the jury to find that defendant knowingly disregarded his subjecti...

Chittenden County Deputy State’s Attorney Andrew Gilbertson said that Bourgoin was not prejudiced by Cotton’s testimony. “It wasn’t something new or totally different or totally contradictory to what was already before the jury,” Gilbertson said. The crash killed Mary Harris, 16, of Moretown; Cyrus Zschau, 16, of Moretown; Liam Hale, 16, of Fayston; Janie Cozzi, 15, of Fayston; and Eli Brookens, 16, of Waterbury. Four of the teenagers attended Harwood Union High School in Duxbury. Cozzi attended Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire. Prosecutors had argued that Bourgoin ...

Bourgoin was found guilty in 2019 of five counts of second-degree murder, as well as lesser charges. The jury believed Bourgoin intentionally drove the wrong way on I-89 in Williston in a fit of rage in 2016. The result of that drive was a fiery crash that killed a car full of innocent teenagers. Mary Harris, 16, of Moretown; Cyrus Zschau, 16, of Moretown; Liam Hale, 16, of Fayston; Janie Chase Cozzi, 15, of Fayston; and Eli Brookens, 16, of Waterbury, died in the crash. Four of the childhood friends were Harwood Union High School juniors. Chase Cozzi attended Kimball Union Academy in Meriden...