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Bay State slaying suspect tied to
vampire-like act in Maine
Convicted in a 2000 Augusta case in which he licked a girl's blood, he now faces a triple murder charge.
One of three men who face triple-murder charges in Massachusetts was convicted a decade ago in a Maine case that included blood-letting and overtones of vampirism.
Back then he was Roy Gutfinski Jr. of Augusta. Today, after a legal name change in July 2008 while he was a Maine State Prison inmate, his name is Caius Domitius Veiovis.
Veiovis, 31, pleaded not guilty in Pittsfield, Mass., on Monday to three counts each of murder, kidnapping and intimidation of witnesses, according to a court clerk. He is being held without bail and is to return to court Oct. 12.
Veiovis served almost 7½ years of a 10-year sentence in Maine on convictions in 2000 for elevated aggravated assault, aggravated assault and reckless conduct.
He was 19 and still known as Gutfinski when he and his girlfriend sliced open the back of a 16-year-old girl, then licked the blood while they kissed.
The cutting was done by Gutfinski's girlfriend, who was 16, police said. The razor cut along the victim's back required 32 stitches to close, according to court documents.
At Gutfinski's trial in 2000, prosecutor Alan Kelley portrayed him as part of a subculture of people who wore dark clothes and practiced self-mutilation and some blood-licking or blood-drinking.
"Roy Gutfinski Jr. perceived himself (as) and claimed to be a Satanic worshipper, claimed to police he was a vampire and drank blood, his own as well as other persons', as often as possible," Kelley said in the courtroom.
Kelley and witnesses described Gutfinski's apartment on Water Street as dark and dungeonlike with darkened windows, bones scattered about, pictures of bodies on the walls and razor blades throughout the apartment.
When police searched the apartment, they found a library book on human anatomy under a fish tank that held a snake, and an ax near a wooden chair.
Kelley said the cutting victim met Gutfinski and his girlfriend downtown two days before the incident. Neither Gutfinski's girlfriend nor the victim wanted Gutfinski prosecuted, and he did not testify in his own defense.
After his conviction, and before his sentencing, Gutfinski took a razor to his own arms while in jail. It took 200 stitches to close the wounds.
Gutfinski had a series of hornlike objects implanted in his forehead. Now they are visible as bumps, three on each side. He also has had a series of tattoos, some reaching to his face, and a roughly drawn 666 in the middle of his forehead.
Gutfinski tried – and failed – in 2003 to get a Kennebec County Probate Court judge to approve his name change to "Diszade Trash Horror."
In that petition, Gutfinski described himself as a religious Satanist.
"I wish to shed all ties with the Christian church, and one important step toward that goal is legally changing my name," he wrote.
