Murder of Melissa Ann Tremblay
The murder of Melissa Ann Tremblay is an unsolved child murder which occurred in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on the afternoon of September 11, 1988, in which an eleven-year-old girl from Salem, New Hampshire, was beaten, then murdered by three stab wounds to her torso before her body was intentionally left upon a section of the Boston and Maine Railroad. Her partially severed body was discovered beneath a freight train by a railroad employee one day after her murder. Despite exhaustive contemporary efforts, the investigation into Tremblay's murder gradually became a cold case, although her case remained open. Via advancements in DNA analysis, skin and flesh scrapings discovered beneath Tremblay's fingernails were considered a sufficient match to a retired prison guard from Alabama who had lived in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, at the time of the murder and who had always been considered a suspect in Tremblay's murder; this individual was arrested and charged with Tremblay's murder on April 26, 2022. This suspect would be tried for Tremblay's murder on two occasions—in each instance entering a plea of not guilty. The jury at the suspect's first trial were unable to reach a decision due to being deadlocked as to his guilt, resulting in the judge declaring a mistrial; the jury at his second trial would inform the judge after six days of deadlocked deliberations they considered the suspect not guilty.
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