On the morning of Friday, January 13, 2006, Edward "Ed" Schiller, a 39-year-old male, was ambushed as he sat in his car in a parking garage near his office in Newton, Massachusetts. He was on the phone with his girlfriend, Stacey Rock, when a man approached his vehicle and shot him at point-blank range. First responders found Schiller slumped over the steering wheel, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy later confirmed that he died from a single gunshot wound.
At the time of his death, Schiller, a resident of Framingham, had recently rekindled a relationship with Rock, his high school sweetheart.
The investigation into Schiller's murder initially stalled due to a lack of physical evidence, though eyewitnesses reported seeing a red Ford Taurus at the scene around the time of the shooting. The breakthrough came when investigators focused on Stacey Rock's estranged husband, James Brescia. It was discovered that Brescia was jealous of Schiller's relationship with Rock and had expressed his anger to others. Phone records revealed that Brescia had been in frequent contact with a man named Scott Foxworth. The red Ford Taurus seen at the crime scene was eventually traced to Foxworth.
Prosecutors determined that James Brescia had hired Scott Foxworth to kill Edward Schiller in a murder-for-hire plot, paying him $10,000 for the crime. In 2008, both men were convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder and were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Foxworth's conviction was upheld on appeal. However, Brescia was granted a new trial after it was determined he had suffered a stroke during his initial trial, which may have affected his testimony.
During his retrial in 2018, as the jury was deliberating, James Brescia pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Scott Foxworth is currently serving his life sentence. The case drew significant media attention and was featured on television programs such as "Dateline NBC" and "20/20," which detailed the love triangle that ultimately led to Schiller's tragic death.
