Killer still hasn’t filed legal-aid application
Zachery David Murphy, 24, of Fredericton, who’s serving life sentence for second-degree murder, now faces perjury charge stemming from change in story who slaughtered victim
Five months after he was charged with perjury, a Fredericton man serving a life sentence for murder still hasn’t completed his application to retain defence counsel, court heard Wednesday.
Zachery David Murphy, 24, formerly of Kings College Road in Fredericton, admitted in 2022 to second-degree murder stemming from the April 15, 2020, stabbing death of Clark Ernest Hunter Greene, 31.
He provided a full statement to Fredericton police and testified at a preliminary hearing implicating his spouse, Angela April Walsh, 25, AKA Ali Morningstar, reporting that she hatched the plan to lure Greene to Wilmot Park and that she stabbed him repeatedly in the face and chest.
But at Walsh’s jury trial on a first-degree murder charge in January 2023, Murphy changed his story, claiming he’d killed Greene and that Walsh had nothing to do with it.