The man prosecutors say murdered 11-year-old Melissa Ann Tremblay in 1988 has been indicted on the cost.
Marvin C. “Skip” McClendon Jr., 74, was residing in Bremen, Ala., when authorities in Massachusetts named him in April as their suspect within the practically 34-year-old chilly case. He waived a rendition listening to in Alabama and returned to Massachusetts to face the homicide cost.
This new indictment strikes the case to Essex Superior Court, the place the first-degree homicide cost could be tried. He’s anticipated to be arraigned there someday in July, in accordance with the Essex County District Attorney’s workplace.
McClendon labored for a few years within the state Department of Correction in Massachusetts. At the time of Tremblay’s homicide, he was residing in Chelmsford and dealing as a carpenter, in accordance with prosecutors.
He was initially arraigned in Lawrence District Court May 13, the place he was held with out bail.
Melissa “Missy” Ann Tremblay accompanied her mom and her mom’s boyfriend to Lawrence on Sept. 11, 1988. As her mom and her mom’s boyfriend frolicked within the LaSalle Social Club on Andover Street, Melissa was allowed to play within the surrounding neighborhood.
“She never returned to the club that night and a search, essentially, ensued for her,” prosecutor Jessica Strasnick, chief Essex County murder prosecutor, mentioned on the preliminary arraignment. “Her body was found that following day, Sept. 12, 1988, in the railroad yard in Lawrence. She had been stabbed to death and her leg had been amputated post-mortem when a train ran over her.”
“From 1988 and the years that followed, investigators spoke to suspects, witnesses — whoever they could — trying to gather information,” Strasnick continued.
Those embody a pizza supply driver who noticed her taking part in within the Boston & Maine Railway Yard close to the nook of South Broadway and Andover Street, a block or so away from the social membership, within the later afternoon and early night of Sept. 11. Another witness noticed her talking with somebody in a van.
Advances in DNA expertise led investigators to the male line within the McClendon household, Strasnick defined. Investigators additional discovered that the killer was left-handed, like McClendon, and that McClendon had owned a van “consistent with” the van witnesses noticed that day.
“Since her murder in 1988, we have always prayed for justice,” Tremblay’s household wrote in an announcement following McClendon’s arrest. “We have never stopped thinking of Missy, despite what others, who say they are her friends, have said in the media in the past years.”
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