Timothy Verrill was admitted to hospital after 2017 slayings with injuries to his arms

Mar. 27—In the days after the bodies of two women were found wrapped and stuffed under a porch in Farmington, alleged murderer Timothy Verrill was admitted to the hospital with voices in his head and scratches on his arms, his brother testified this week.

Timothy Verrill, now 41, is on trial for two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder and five counts of falsifying physical evidence — all felonies — in connection with the fatal stabbings of Christine Sullivan, 48, and Jenna Pellegrini, 32, on Jan. 27, 2017. The two were found in a tarp and bloody bedding under the porch of Sullivan's home at 979 Meaderboro Road in Farmington.

Asked by nurses at the hospital how he got the injuries, Verrill eventually told them he was under the influence of methamphetamine and cocaine, Jeffrey Verrill said Tuesday. At the time, Jeffrey Verrill didn't know his brother was using, or selling, drugs.

"He said something about the TV started talking to him and it wasn't making any sense," Jeffrey Verrill said. "I took him to two hospitals that week and he gave different reasons to two different people about how he got those scratches."

In the week Timothy Verrill spent with his brother after the deaths of Sullivan and Pellegrini, he didn't mention the women or his alleged involvement, despite being arrested and questioned by police.

"I wanted to keep things as stress-free as possible," Jeffrey Verrill said when asked why he didn't question his brother himself.

By the end of that week, Timothy Verrill was admitted to a psychiatric and substance rehabilitation and treatment center in Massachusetts, where he was later arrested and charged with the murders.

In the days before the bodies were recovered at the home, Timothy Verrill was described by both his brother and their stepmother, Suzanne Verrill, as hyper, emotional and in the midst of a "serious meltdown."

During witness testimony on Monday, Dr. Thomas Andrews, who was the Chief Medical Examiner when autopsies were performed on Sullivan and Pellegrini, testified that Sullivan had defensive wounds on her hands and a broken finger. He said Pellegrini apparently was asleep or unconscious when she was attacked. They both had drugs in their systems when they died.

Both women died from blunt force trauma and multiple stab wounds. Sullivan was stabbed eight times, and Pellegrini was stabbed 43 times, Andrews said. Both were alive for most of the attacks, Andrews said, which he described as "extremely forceful."