Accomplice in student’s rape, death up for parole

Published 9:47 am Thursday, November 6, 2014

CONCORD, N.H. — A woman who admitted she lured a University of New Hampshire student to her apartment as a sex offering for her domineering boyfriend and then helped dispose of the woman’s body after he killed and raped her could be paroled following a hearing.

Kathryn McDonough, now 21, was sentenced in July 2013 to 1 1/2 to three years in prison for lying to police after Seth Mazzaglia strangled and raped 19-year-old Elizabeth “Lizzi” Marriott, of Westborough, Mass., at the couple’s Dover apartment in October 2012.

McDonough for months told investigators that Marriott died during consensual rough sex between the two women that involved restraints. She admitted she helped dispose of Marriott’s body then testified against Mazzaglia this summer as part of her deal for a lighter sentence.

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Mazzaglia was convicted of murder and is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole.