Posted on 04/27/2022 11:09:45 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Melissa Tremblay was stabbed to death
Investigators on Wednesday announced the arrest of an Alabama man in connection with the fatal stabbing of an 11-year-old New Hampshire girl in 1988.
Officials with the Essex County district attorney's office announced the arrest of Marvin C. "Skip" McClendon Jr., 74, of Bremen, Alabama, on a fugitive-from-justice charge for an arrest warrant connected to the killing of Melissa Tremblay, 11, of Salem, New Hampshire.
On Sept. 12, 1988, Tremblay was found stabbed to death and left in the path of a train in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
The sixth-grader had been with her mother at the LaSalle Club, which is a block from the rail yard. Tremblay had wandered out of the club and was never seen alive again.
Tremblay was an only child and her mother has since died. In recent years, childhood friends of Tremblay ignited a social media push to bring new attention to the case.
Andrea Ganley, a childhood friend of Tremblay's and a longtime advocate who has labored to keep the case alive, said she's having trouble processing the fact that an arrest has been made, but she always believed this day would come.
"I always had hope. I just didn't know this day would happen," she said. "It's been so long, and I worked so hard to find some closure to this."
Officials said McClendon, a retired Massachusetts Department of Corrections employee, is in the custody of the Cullman County sheriff's office and will be arraigned in an Alabama courtroom on Thursday.
"He has been a person of interest for a period of time," Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said. "I can't say if he was surprised or not, but we believe we have the right person."
Blodgett said evidence found on the girl's body was instrumental in solving the case, but he declined to go into greater details about the nature of that evidence. He said more information will be released when McClendon is arraigned.
It's unclear when McClendon would be returned to Massachusetts. Blodgett said that will depend on whether he waives extradition.
Face of a monster. He may be relieved to finally be caught. I wish him no relief.
(and left in the path of a train)
Reminds me of something else... 🤔
On one hand, 34 years is long time to evade justice and I hope the perp get his due. OTOH, he will probably get better medical care in a Massachusetts prison than he will on Medicare in Alabama.
Diabetes, COPD, and heart disease at a guess.
Wonder what prison is like for a former guard who can never leave.
Sick, sick, sick. There are evil monsters out there.
Hang the blob on hooks and run him through a pork slaughter house.
I’m guessing forensic genealogy got him.
.....I SWEAR I just can’t see how anybody could stab a little 10 year old girl!
The fault lies with our gutless society. We need to execute people like this IMMEDIATELY. There is no other solution.
Many, many countries in this world will not tolerate sick bastards like this in their midst.
Wiser still to write a note of apology and hang himself.
I agree. A huge number of our problems are the result of a gutless society.
Most likely someone in his family put their DNA into the Ancestry and bingo they got a match to a cold case. He has probably been collecting a pension from the Commonwealth for twenty years.
There is a certain poetic Justice to these folks being arrested when they think they are home free.
Damn, are they sure he’s not 174??
The thing that gets me and is probably the most disturbing is not so much the monsters who murder several people and eventually get caught. Its the ones who murder somebody....not even a crime of passion but a cold blooded murder and of someone who has done nothing to them...and then go on to live seemingly normal lives.
How sick would you have to be to have murdered a little girl like that? How could someone be such a monster and then ho hum, carry on as normal for another 30+ years? That’s been the hardest part to comprehend about all these old cold cases being solved by DNA evidence.....to see that there are monsters like this walking among us.
Just for perspective, this guy is YOUNGER than Vince McMahon. Heck, he is years younger than Tony 2-mask Fauxci.
The years have not been kind to this monster, but at least he got to live those years. His innocent victim did not.
Nearly fact-free article.
Could you elaborate?
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