Nearly 30 years after he kidnapped and brutally killed 10-year-old Jeffrey Curley, Charles Jaynes is up for parole again in June — a prospect the young victim’s father says leaves him with stress and anxiety.
“People just have absolutely no idea how bad this Charles Jaynes is,” said Bob Curley. “He killed Jeffrey. That was only a part of his plan. He wanted to kill Jeffrey, and he wanted to taunt our family and brag about it. This guy is, believe me when I tell you, he’s the worst of the worst. This guy’s a devil, a devil amongst us.”
Jaynes is serving a life sentence plus 10 years for kidnapping and the second-degree murder of Jeffrey Curley. This will be his second chance at parole after being denied in June 2020.
His accomplice, Salvatore Sicari, is serving a life sentence for first degree murder and will never be eligible for parole.
In April of 1997, Jaynes stated at his prior parole hearing, he met Jeffrey Curley and began “grooming” him because he was “attracted to young boys.”
By Oct. 1, 1997, Jayne and Sicari picked the young boy up on a Cambridge street, having plotted to kidnap, murder and molest him.
The pair killed the child in the car behind a supermarket using a gasoline soaked rag, assaulted his body, put cement over him, and dumped him in a river.
“My big nightmare, I often think of, is Jeffrey died a long, slow, painful death in the trunk of Charles Jaynes car driving around,” said Bob Curley. “And the thing that haunts me is how much he was suffering, how much agony he was in. What he was thinking? Where was I to help him? Where were his brothers? How afraid he must have been in those moments.”
Though the parole board unanimously denied his case last time and he doesn’t think Jaynes will be released “on Gov. Healy’s watch,” the victim’s father said, he doesn’t “know how it will go this time.”
At the prior parole hearing, Jaynes stated he was not looking for parole and confessed to the crime in detail before the board.
Though the board acknowledged some “programming efforts” in courses offered at the prison and mental health steps, they also noted Jayne’s “extremely poor adjustment” in prison, including 40 disciplinary reports involving tattoos like a swastika and “sexual overtones” in interactions with younger inmates.
“In addition, there is no evidence of rehabilitation or a commitment to address his sexually deviant behavior,” the Parole Board wrote. “Although Mr. Jaynes informed the Board that he was not looking for parole, and he conceded he is not ready and doubts he will ever be, the Board is of the opinion that his assertions were disingenuous and self-serving. At times he appeared to be grandstanding, which appeared to be an attempt to further victimize the family.”
Bob Curley described the killer’s behavior at the last hearing as “taunting to our family” and “basically rubbing our nose in what he did to Jeffrey.” The father said he believes Jaynes to be dangerous still.
“He even admitted it, that he liked what he did, how he wanted to be a famous serial killer,” said Bob Curley. “And a lot of the things he did fall into that. He saved souvenirs, he saved Jeffrey’s shirt he was wearing.”
After all this time, Bob Curley said, people still remember Jeffrey. He was a “regular little city kid” in East Cambridge, the dad said, riding his bike, going to the pool and being a jokester.
“A lot of cases, people remember the killer instead of the victim,” said Bob Curley. “In this case, that’s not the case. I think people remember Jeffrey more than Charles Jaynes, and I think that’s because Jeffrey was such a, just an ordinary, regular kid. I think everybody can relate to Jeff, because they know a Jeff, either a kid in the neighborhood or a son or nephew — just one of the regular local kids growing up in the city.”
Charles Jaynes’s parole case will be heard in front of the Massachusetts Parole Board on June 24 at 1 p.m.
