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Teen denies stabbing in jail house recording

By Michael Marsh
Source: Associated Press
Updated: February 8, 2010 8:31 PM

A teen charged with fatally stabbing a classmate in Woburn, Massachusetts told a friend that he was being persecuted because he stayed behind to help the victim.  His conversation was recorded in jail where he's held on a murder charge.  John Odgren is also heard on the recording telling a friend to "just ell them I didn't do it" and in another conversation saying to another friend he was arrested "for a murder I didn't commit."  Prosecutors say the recordings show a lucid teen who is not mentally ill and they want a jury to her his words at his upcoming trial.  Odgren's lawyers say he was legally insane when he randomly chose 15-year-old James Alenson to stab repeatedly in a bathroom at Lincoln-Sudbury High School.

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