NEWS: Reenactment of Pedophile Priest Slaying Leaked

The clip starts with Druce standing in a cell naked but for white boxer shorts, his sinewy body scrawled with crude jailhouse tattoos. His pock-marked face is covered with a scraggly brown beard as he talks to himself in a mirror.

There is no audio, so it unclear exactly what Druce is saying as he wraps a white T-shirt around his broad shoulders and then pulls a red DOC scrub shirt over his head. He then takes stretched-out gym socks and ties them around his waist.

He mimes walking into Geoghan's cell. He talks to an invisible victim, then acts out how he jams the cell door at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center with a carefully-cut paperback book. He spins around and throws a punch.

He falls to his knees, pulls his hands behind his back and wraps them with the white T-shirt. He then yanks an invisible victim to his feet and kicks him face-down to the floor.

Druce's face spreads into a cold grin as he reenacts how he allegedly choked Geoghan with the socks, pulling off the defrocked priest's own sneaker to use as a lever for the tourniquet.

As he demonstrates the slow twisting of the noose, Druce's face twists in pain and he begins to shake, illustrating how Geoghan's body went into convulsions.

But the violence does not stop there.

Druce starts to laugh to himself as he squats on the edge of the cell's steel cot. He points to his own neck, then leaps off the bed.

The motion is so brutal, the video shakes with the impact of each jump. One. Two. Three.

When the third stomping is complete, Druce turns to an imaginary audience and giggles. He shrugs his shoulders, smiles broadly and begins a victory jig, dancing around his cell with his thumbs raised in the air.

The video simulation mirrors what prosecutors have described in the slaying. An autopsy showed Geoghan's cause of death to be ligature strangulation and blunt chest trauma; broken ribs and a punctured lung.

The only detail missing in the video is the pillowcase Worcester County District Attorney John Conte said Druce used to "enhance the strangulation" and the razor he was carrying in hopes of castrating him.

DOC Commissioner Kathleen Dennehy said investigators have reviewed all video preserved since Geoghan was murdered on Aug. 23, 2003, at the Souza-Baranowski prison in Shirley. None of their videos match the images published in the Herald.

"Investigators have concluded that an unauthorized, pirated recording of live video footage of inmate Druce was made" when he was being held, Dennehy said in a statement.

Dennehy said it was "unconscionable" that an employee made the tape and didn't share it with homicide investigators.

Correction department spokesman Sgt. Paul Henderson said Wednesday that officials believe an employee downloaded the footage of Druce to one of the prison computers linked to Souza-Baranowski's 360 live surveillance cameras. It had to be an employee because inmates don't have access to the surveillance system, he said.

Henderson said the DOC is trying to determine if any of the images remain on one of the computers' hard drives.

If the employee who made the tape is identified, they will be subject to disciplinary action ranging from suspension to termination, Henderson said.

MissTyrios said:
Druce has claimed both that he did not kill Geoghan, and that - if he did - he "did it for the kids."

Chriztian said:
Even if it is a bit fucked up that he got pleasure from it, I'd rather see that childfucker dead than eating off of, going to the doctor off of, and just generally using up our money. Some crimes do NOT get the punishments they deserve.

robosagogo said:
I'd rather he have gotten to watch the remaining years of his natural life evaporate ever so slowly before his very eyes.

Spike said:
Look at it this way...
It spared the extra costs that a death sentence trial would have incurred, and it's spared the tax payers the costs of keeping the nonce alive. He got what he deserved.