The Thomas Mortimer, IV, murder case continued Monday morning.

District Attorney Adrienne Lynch and Assistant District Attorney, John McEvoy sat in front of the Stone family. Mortimer's defense attorney Denise Regan and her assistant, Eva Vekos were also in attendance. Mortimer was not at this hearing.

Monday's pre-trial conference was just to fill out a tracking order and set a future court date. The two sides will come together again on November 3 in courtroom 630 at 2 p.m. for another pre-trial conference.

According to Regan, this hearing will revolve around Mortimer's financial resources.

The father faces four charges of first-degree murder in connection with the quadruple homicide in his family's Winchester home. He is accused of murdering his wife, 41-year-old Laura Stone Mortimer, her two children, 2-year-old Charlotte Mortimer and 4-year-old Thomas Mortimer V, and Laura's mother, 64-year-old Ragna Ellen Stone.

Mortimer's financial history came into question during a hearing on September 9 when Judge Julia Kern learned that Mortimer had more than the $2,000 he had previously told the court.

Judge Kern found out that Mortimer informed the probation officer of a joint account he had with his wife, Laura Stone Mortimer for $11,000. He also owns two cars, one of which is a Toyota Highlander and he has his children's college savings account worth $25,000.

Last week Regan lost a motion that asked the court to impound four lines of the statement of the case. Originally Regan had asked the court to withhold the whole statement, but limited it to those four lines because she was concerned with Mortimer's safety at the Billerica House of Corrections.

"The defendant's right to a fair trial trumps the first amendment in this case," Regan said at the September 9 hearing. "The public doesn't need the information that's contained in those four lines to understand the proceedings of the court. "The information is so inflammatory that it will put the defendant at risk (at Billerica)."

In the four lines that Mortimer's defense attorney, Denise Regan, tried to have impounded, it said that his four-year-old son, Thomas "Finn" Mortimer, V, witnessed the killings.

"I especially sorry to Finn that he had to witness these horrid acts," said the letter Mortimer left at the scene. "It was not supposed to be this way. I disgust myself."

According to the rest of the nine-page document, Mortimer and his wife, Laura Stone-Mortimer, fought about a bounced check on the day Mortimer allegedly murdered his family.

Upon the police investigation, they found a letter that was typed at approximately 11 p.m. on June 14 before the laptop was turned off at 3:19 a.m. In it, Mortimer admitted what he had done.

"Ultimately, I did these horrible things because I could not cope with the responsibilities I took upon myself," Mortimer wrote. "I was too cavalier with life, especially others lives. What I have done is extremely selfish and cowardly. I took the easy way out."

In the letter that Mortimer wrote after he allegedly murdered his family members, he stated that he should have written a book about his frustrations instead of taking it out on his family.

Laura Stone's sister, Debra Stone Sochat, tried to reach Laura and her mother on numerous occasions, but was unable to. On her last call to Laura's number, at a little before 9 a.m. on June 15, Thomas Mortimer answered and informed Debra that her sister would not be able to talk to her. When she asked him to have her call back, Thomas informed her that "it will be a while."

Mortimer continued in the letter to say, "I do have remorse with what I have done. I wonder what life would be like if I did not chicken out."

"What have I done? I hate myself more than ever. I now wish I accepted responsibilities for my actions, dealt with Laura [maturely], divorced her and was a good role model for Finn and Charlotte."

"I am ashamed, frightened, relieved, surprised that I murdered my family, disgusted with myself," Mortimer wrote. "Looking forward to peace but already missing terribly Finn and Charlotte. That will be my 'hell'. I know that they are in a much better place than they could ever be living with Laura and living with me."

After being arrested Mortimer spoke to his parents and when they asked him if this was about money, he said that was a part of it. Mortimer aslo said that he "just lost it." When his mother asked if he "snapped", Mortimer replied, "yea."

Mortimer was arrested June 17 after he was seen in Montague, MA at approximately 11:45 am by a father and son. The witnesses then copied the plate number of the vehicle Mortimer was driving and reported it to local police.  Mortimer was apprehended in Bernardston after attempting to flee and was arrested by members of the Bernardston Police Department. Mortimer is currently being held without bail at the Billerica House of Corrections.