SCHENECTADY — When 14-year-old Samantha Humphrey vanished on Nov. 25, 2022, Schenectady police quickly focused attention on her then-14-year-old boyfriend.
Police say the teen told police he couldn’t show them text messages he exchanged with Humphrey because he’d wiped all their exchanges and her contact information from his phone. Later, as he retraced the last steps he told police he took with her in Schenectady’s Stockade neighborhood, he grew agitated when officers pressed him on Humphrey’s whereabouts and his mother asked for a lawyer.
Those details and others emerged Friday morning at a pretrial hearing for the now-18-year-old Raymond Wright Jr.’s upcoming murder trial in the long-unsolved killing of Humphrey, whose body was pulled from the Mohawk River months after she disappeared. The testimony offers the clearest insight so far into how police built their second-degree murder case against Wright…