警察は74歳の男性を逮捕しました 1988 マサチューセッツ州で11歳のメリッサ・トランブレイを殺害, the Essex District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.
マーヴィンC. マクレンドンジュニア. was arrested Tuesday in Bremen, アラバマ, and placed in the custody of the Cullman County Sheriff’s Office, District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said at a news conference.
McClendon “was placed under arrest and charged as a fugitive from justice based on an arrest warrant issued yesterday for the murder of Melissa Ann Tremblay,” 前記 a news release from Blodgett’s office.
The suspect was expected to be arraigned in an Alabama court Thursday before being extradited to Massachusetts. Reached by CNN, neither the Essex DA’s office nor the Cullman County Sheriff’s Office had information on whether McClendon had an attorney who might comment on his behalf.
Melissa was found dead on September 12, 1988, in the old Boston & Maine Railway Yard in Lawrence, said the news release.
She had been stabbed to death and a train had run over her body postmortem, リリースは言った.
The girl was last seen the day before, playing in neighborhoods near a social club in Lawrence while her mother and the mother’s boyfriend were inside, said Blodgett. A railroad employee and pizza delivery driver were the last people to see her alive.
Melissa’s mother frantically searched the area before reporting her missing at around 9 午後. そして, ニュースリリースによると.
“長年にわたって, scores of witnesses, 容疑者, and persons-of-interest were interviewed by police,” but the case went unsolved, リリースは言った.
The cold case was reexamined by authorities in 2014 そして “evidence recovered from the victim’s body was instrumental in solving the case,” リリースは言った. Blodgett declined to comment on the specific evidence that led to the arrest while speaking to reporters at a news briefing Wednesday.
“The investigation found that the suspect lived in Chelmsford in 1988, and had multiple ties to Lawrence,” ニュースリリースは言った, namely that he worked and frequented establishments in the city, as well as a local church.
Tremblay’s surviving relatives were notified of the arrest, said the DA’s office.
“I want to thank everyone involved in this investigation from beginning to end,” Blodgett said. “Their tireless pursuit of justice for Melissa has brought us to this moment. We never forgot about Melissa, nor did we give up on holding her killer accountable.”
