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Middlesex DA updates Somerville council on progress in long-unsolved murders, announces recent indictment
Summary
Middlesex District Attorney Ryan told the Somerville City Council the officehas recently obtained a murder indictment in a decades-old case and described how cold-case work and forensic genealogy have advanced several investigations; families of victims addressed the council.
Middlesex District Attorney Ryan told the Somerville City Council on Tuesday that her officehas recently obtained a murder indictment in one long-unsolved case and has identified another person of interest after renewed investigative work by the office's cold-case unit.
The announcement came during a council meeting called so the DA could brief the body on two long-standing Somerville killings: the unsolved 1995 death of Deanna Cremin and the decades-old murder of Charlene Rosemond. The DA said the office's cold-case unit, created in 2019, has now brought answers to 10 families countywide and that recent work led to an indictment this week in the Rosemond matter.
The DA described how cold-case investigations typically progress, saying breakthroughs often come from new witness cooperation or changing…
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