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Police found 62-year-old Lorraine Wachsman stabbed to death inside her Bridgewater condo on Monday afternoon.
"She was just a good human being. She was always thinking of other people, never herself, and that's the truth," said Bob Beanz, a friend of Wachsman.
"Nobody's seen any sign of anything in her. Just bubbly. Always put her hand out to help the next person," said Sanda Costa, a friend of Wachsman.
In court, prosecutors said 54-year-old Eunice Fields planned the killing, then drove to the Brockton Police Department covered in blood and confessed.
Investigators said Wachsman was counseling Fields's ex-girlfriend, and that Fields blamed the victim for intervening and breaking them up.
"By stating that the victim in this case was going to get what she had coming to her for coming in between them, and in the words of the defendant, 'taking away the love of her life,'" said Assistant District Attorney Thomas Flanagan.
Fields and her girlfriend lived together for more than 10 years, and according to the landlord, they never had any problems.
"I never heard any violence out of her or nothing, that's why I'm very devastated," said the landlord.
Prosecutors said that a day before the murder, Fields made an appointment to meet Wachsman at her home.
"She says ‘I feel a little stressed, and I'm going to go release some of the stress.' I thought she was going to an AA meeting," said Clara Madore, the suspect's landlord.
Prosecutors said Fields had other intentions.
"Unfortunately at this point the defendant made a point to go to her apartment and the appointment was to murder her," said Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz.
Fields allegedly brought a knife from her house and immediately attacked, stabbing Wachsman several times in the neck and chest.
Friends said Wachsman was an English teacher for Randolph schools for nearly 40 years, and a facilitator for Alcoholics Anonymous.
"Anybody that knew her would not hurt her, and this woman knew her. That's what really bothers me," said Costa.
Fields's sister was just as devastated about the details of the crime.
"This is not like her," Fields said while weeping on her way out of the courtroom.
Fields's attorney claimed that his client suffers from bipolar disorder.
The judge ordered that Fields be held without bail.
la victime, Lorraine WachsmanLorraine Wachsman would often open her home and her heart to help struggling alcoholics, her friends said Monday.
“She’s been 25 years sober. She’s a beacon of light. She’s an angel. Everybody loves Lorraine,” said Donna Bielawa, 39, of Bridgewater, who met Wachsman at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting eight years ago.
“She helped hundreds of men and women,” Bielawa said, wiping tears from her eyes.
Wachsman, 62, was fatally stabbed in her Main Street condominium on Monday. Her friend and a fellow AA member, Eunice Field, 54, of Brockton, is charged with murder in the case.
News of Wachsman’s murder stunned her friends, who embraced one another and sobbed outside Wachsman’s condominium on Monday.
