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Shirley man killed his girlfriend after she began seeing someone else

Ex-boyfriend’s trial opens in Shirley slaying

By Brian R. Ballou

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 18, 2012

WOBURN - Robert Gulla wanted Allison Myrick all to himself, and in a fit of jealous rage two years ago he attacked her with a kitchen knife in his basement, inflicting a slow and excruciating death on his former girlfriend, prosecutors said yesterday. “This was a death perpetuated with extreme atrocity and cruelty,’’ said Lisa McGovern, Middlesex County assistant prosecutor, during her opening statements Thursday in the first-degree murder trial. Myrick had a restraining order out against Gulla.

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