Who is Philip Chism? Here’s everything we know about the murderer of Collen Ritzer.
Philip Chism is a convicted criminal.
He killed and raped his math teacher in 2013. Moreover, an attempted murder case is still open against him. Currently, he is serving his prison sentence of 40 years.
Philip Chism Wikipedia And Colleen Ritzer Case
A convicted murderer Philip Chism is yet to feature on Wikipedia.
Nonetheless, we know a few things about him. He was born to his parents, Stacy Tremayne Chism and Diana Amanda Chism, on 21 January 1999 in Clarksville, Tennessee.
People know Philip for first-degree murder, rape, and robbery in the 2013 killing of Collen Ritzer, an Andover resident. He was a freshman at Danvers High School when he committed the deeds to the 24-year-old math teacher.
The incident took place on 23 October 2013. The court tried him as an adult and found him guilty in 2015. The court convicted him of raping Ritzer inside the bathroom and armed robbery for stealing her credit cards and underwear.
Philip is now serving his 40-year to life sentence at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster. During the murder trial, the authorities had held him at the DYS facility in Dorchester. At that time, prosecutors alleged he was involved in an attempted murder of a Department of Youth Services worker in June 2014.
However, he didn’t receive a verdict for the second crime. Nonetheless, the case remains open as his attorneys pursue a theory that he suffered from a brain or mental health disorder.
In September 2021, during a brief hearing in Suffolk Juvenile Court, attorney John Osler told about an expert evaluating an MRI of Philip’s brain. Then, based on the report’s admissibility, the hearing was preliminarily scheduled for early March.
Philip Chism Family
Philip Chism’s family includes his father, Stacy Tremayne Chism, his mother, Diana Amanda Chism, and his two younger sisters, including Isabella Christina Chism.
As for their whereabouts, the details remain unknown. The reports from 2013 suggest that the Chisms lived in Florida.
Philip’s parents got married in September 1998, according to the documents from the Montgomery County court clerk’s office. The court records show that their marriage was in constant turmoil.
In March 2001, his mother filed for divorce from his father. It never went through, and the couple reconciled in June 2001. Besides that, there were two other petitions for legal separation (2011 and 2013).
And a 2014 report suggested that Philip’s parents finalized their divorce in October.
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