MELISSA TREMBLAY: Man arrested in 1988 killing of 11-year-old girl from Salem, New Hampshire

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You may remember this case:

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Former Massachusetts corrections officer arrested for 1988 slaying of 11-year-old girl

A 74-year-old man was arrested this week for the 1988 murder of an 11-year-old girl in Massachusetts.
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Melissa Ann Tremblay disappeared in Lawrence, Massachusetts, at the age of 11 on a Sunday evening in 1988 and was found the next day after being stabbed to death and hit by a train.

More than three decades later, her alleged killer was arrested in Alabama and will be returned to Massachusetts to face justice. Marvin McClendon, Jr., a 74-year-old retired Massachusetts Department of Corrections officer, was taken into custody by the Cullman County Sheriff’s Office and will be arraigned in an Alabama court later this week.

Tremblay went with her mother to LaSalle Social Club in Lawrence on September 11, 1988.

"While her mother and mother’s boyfriend remained inside the club, Melissa played in the adjacent neighborhoods and was last seen by a railroad employee and pizza delivery driver during the late afternoon hours," Blodgett said.

Tremblay's mother and her mother's boyfriend searched the area before reporting her missing to police that evening around 9:00 p.m.

Law enforcement located her body in a railway yard a couple of blocks from the social club the next day and an autopsy determined that she had been stabbed to death.
 
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GrandmaBear said:
I'm still irate at that jury. I imagine you are even more so. Can the family sue him civilly I wonder. I mean there's a statute of limitations that would have run out a long time ago but I wonder if that applies when they never knew who the perp was until recent times.... So many times I wish we had an atty on here to ask some things of.

You know at least before he had to live probably under fear of one day being found out or arrested, now he lives free and clear of anything and it really bites. I just hope he knows plenty in this world believe and KNOW he killed her.
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It REALLY bothers me that he got off. I'll never believe it's not him. The right man was on trial.
 
Takeitfromme said:
It REALLY bothers me that he got off. I'll never believe it's not him. The right man was on trial.
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I agree entirely. I'm irate still. And TWELVE people found him innocent, what the he77 is wrong with people? At least with THOSE people?

I can only figure they see a family man who has lived a decent life since, an old man, the science was perhaps attacked? And perhaps because the case was so long ago it just didn't hit the jury as to what he DID to this CHILD?
 
GrandmaBear said:
I agree entirely. I'm irate still. And TWELVE people found him innocent, what the he77 is wrong with people? At least with THOSE people?

I can only figure they see a family man who has lived a decent life since, an old man, the science was perhaps attacked? And perhaps because the case was so long ago it just didn't hit the jury as to what he DID to this CHILD?
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The defense did attack the science to the DNA and to the left handedness of the killer. It was made clear tho that once his wife and kids left for Utah in the early 80s he was no father to them so he was no family man and the jury knew that.... I think they just bought into the defense BS
 
Takeitfromme said:
The defense did attack the science to the DNA and to the left handedness of the killer. It was made clear tho that once his wife and kids left for Utah in the early 80s he was no father to them so he was no family man and the jury knew that.... I think they just bought into the defense BS
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Oh, didn't know that, as far as him not being a family man these days. So that wasn't part of it.

Yeah, many these days seem to buy into defense BS but it is generally certain members of the public, the juries still seem to look at everything and do their job. Was the prosecution not able to combat their b.s.?
 
GrandmaBear said:
Oh, didn't know that, as far as him not being a family man these days. So that wasn't part of it.

Yeah, many these days seem to buy into defense BS but it is generally certain members of the public, the juries still seem to look at everything and do their job. Was the prosecution not able to combat their b.s.?
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It appears that 12 people from Pinellas County in Florida moved up north and got picked for a jury again.
 
GrandmaBear said:
Oh, didn't know that, as far as him not being a family man these days. So that wasn't part of it.

Yeah, many these days seem to buy into defense BS but it is generally certain members of the public, the juries still seem to look at everything and do their job. Was the prosecution not able to combat their b.s.?
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They did a great job. The prosecutors. Those 2 women are phenomenal they really are. I'll copy pasta an article or 2 or 3 from the verdict..... just gimme some time doing too many things at once and only have 1 usable hand... ❤️
 
Takeitfromme said:
They did a great job. The prosecutors. Those 2 women are phenomenal they really are. I'll copy pasta an article or 2 or 3 from the verdict..... just gimme some time doing too many things at once and only have 1 usable hand... ❤️
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That's good to know. It means though the jurors are even stupider than I already thought.
 
Takeitfromme said:
apnews.com

Jury finds Alabama man not guilty of murdering 11-year-old girl in 1988

A jury has found an Alabama man not guilty of killing an 11-year New Hampshire girl more than 35 years ago.
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So they had a deadlocked trial once before. I probably knew that but forgot. And they deadlocked this time too and were sent back to continue to deliberate. So there were jurors who thought him guilty who caved I guess. What do they mean they don't know if the DNA came from under her fingernails? Chain of evidence or something?? Sounds to me like the killer was left handed just like him although the D argued "could" be right handed. So in a way a verdict was forced as neither time was there a consensus. Until sent back this time.
 
GrandmaBear said:
So they had a deadlocked trial once before. I probably knew that but forgot. And they deadlocked this time too and were sent back to continue to deliberate. So there were jurors who thought him guilty who caved I guess. What do they mean they don't know if the DNA came from under her fingernails? Chain of evidence or something?? Sounds to me like the killer was left handed just like him although the D argued "could" be right handed. So in a way a verdict was forced as neither time was there a consensus. Until sent back this time.
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I don't know they started deliberating and then I ended up in a car accident and you know the rest.... was in the hospital when the verdict came in 😔
 
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