Jeffrey Curley's Killer Loses Bid to Change Name

A man convicted of abducting, molesting and killing a 10-year-old Cambridge boy has lost his bid to change his name.

Charles Jaynes is serving a life sentence for killing Jeffrey Curley in 1997. He sought to change his name to Manasseh-Invictus Auric Thutmose V. He cited his constitutional right to practice the Wiccan religion.

A judge rejected the request in 2012. On Wednesday, the Massachusetts Appeals court upheld that ruling, finding that Jaynes had not shown that changing his name is an important component of the Wiccan religion and that without the change he would be limited in exercising his religious beliefs.

Jaynes and Salvatore Sicari were convicted of smothering Curley with a gasoline-soaked rag. The boy's body was found in a plastic container in a Maine river several days later.