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

You may remember this case:

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.

www.foxnews.com

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.

 

[Takeitfromme]

Part 2 is here now. This episode is much more clinical and explains evidence better. I am listening now.....

Melissa Tremblay: The Trials of Marvin McClendon — Murder, She Told: Maine & New England True Crime

In April 2022, 74-year-old Marvin "Skip" McClendon Jr., a former Massachusetts corrections officer, was arrested for the 1988 cold case murder of 11-year-old Melissa Tremblay. Melissa was found brutally murdered on the railroad tracks in Lawrence, MA. In December 2023, the trial began. P

www.murdershetold.com

I listened to it..... and I cried so hard at the end.... I miss her so much and her other friend who also participated in this podcast who is also a friend of mine.... ugh my heart just breaks for both of us, all her other friends and classmates and MOST of all for Missy.... who would she be today if she wasn't taken away from us.

 

[Takeitfromme]

I've been sick but wanted to post here on Saturday..... it would have been Missy's 48th Birthday on March 1. I was bedridden but I thought about her all day. So many thoughts.... if this didn't happen who would she be now? Would we still be in touch after all these years? Would she have a career? I KNOW she would have been a mom, she loved little kids and babies big time!
Why in life did everybody fail this kid?! Why was she given SUCH a **** deal in life? Even in death....she was failed....no justice served whatsoever! Just why??? All she ever wanted was to be loved and give love.

 

[Tresir]

I've been sick but wanted to post here on Saturday..... it would have been Missy's 48th Birthday on March 1. I was bedridden but I thought about her all day. So many thoughts.... if this didn't happen who would she be now? Would we still be in touch after all these years? Would she have a career? I KNOW she would have been a mom, she loved little kids and babies big time!
Why in life did everybody fail this kid?! Why was she given SUCH a **** deal in life? Even in death....she was failed....no justice served whatsoever! Just why??? All she ever wanted was to be loved and give love.

Hope you are feeling a bit better. My son's birthday is 1st March also.

Haven't had a chance to watch much lately but hope to get to this in next day or so.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I've been sick but wanted to post here on Saturday..... it would have been Missy's 48th Birthday on March 1. I was bedridden but I thought about her all day. So many thoughts.... if this didn't happen who would she be now? Would we still be in touch after all these years? Would she have a career? I KNOW she would have been a mom, she loved little kids and babies big time!
Why in life did everybody fail this kid?! Why was she given SUCH a **** deal in life? Even in death....she was failed....no justice served whatsoever! Just why??? All she ever wanted was to be loved and give love.

She did make an impact in this world, on you for one. On many.

She definitely WAS failed by too many.

Even though so I'll, you thought of her that day clearly.

And then she was failed in justice and I hate saying that but we know that's a heavy thing that weighs and is there. She however is reaping heavenly rewards and he isn't going to reap the same imo. Justice results in the long run. I truly believe that.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Hope you are feeling a bit better. My son's birthday is 1st March also.

Haven't had a chance to watch much lately but hope to get to this in next day or so.

My daughter's is in a couple of days here too. My mom's is this month as well. And a sister's. And her hub's. Lots of March birthdays.

I haven't gotten it through my head it's March yet.

 

[Tresir]

My daughter's is in a couple of days here too. My mom's is this month as well. And a sister's. And her hub's. Lots of March birthdays.

I haven't gotten it through my head it's March yet.

It's March!!!! LOL. March is also hub's birthday and daughter is April. Just me that is in December.

 

[GrandmaBear]

It's March!!!! LOL. March is also hub's birthday and daughter is April. Just me that is in December.

Time changes here in just days. Thank goodness!! It will be darker in morning but light longer at night which I PREFER.

I've kept track of birthdays and can remember all down to my folks' grandchildren. I lost track with the greats other than my own grandkids.

My family though has October, January, March and my stepson is June. The ex is no longer counted.

Extended family more are in some of those months. March and June are huge with my brothers and sisters (brothers passed now) and mom. Dad was August. And then my nieces, nephews and their kids also fill those months and others. I lost track as I said.

My one sister has all the dates, I need to get more like that. As to keeping up with all the newer generations. I still I know though like my grandparents (passed) birthdays. January, February, September and November.

Just you in December. I was always a lonely October. Later on I do have one nephew who is in my month.

FIVE DAYS until the clocks change here! I'm ready for it!

 

[Takeitfromme]

She did make an impact in this world, on you for one. On many.

She definitely WAS failed by too many.

Even though so I'll, you thought of her that day clearly.

And then she was failed in justice and I hate saying that but we know that's a heavy thing that weighs and is there. She however is reaping heavenly rewards and he isn't going to reap the same imo. Justice results in the long run. I truly believe that.

Justice did fail Melissa..... that jury for sure failed her..... and because of their decision that's it.... The End..... it was him there is no other suspect to consider because the RIGHT pos was on trial.....and they let him get off Scott free and go home to Alabama to live happily ever after

 

[GrandmaBear]

Justice did fail Melissa..... that jury for sure failed her..... and because of their decision that's it.... The End..... it was him there is no other suspect to consider because the RIGHT pos was on trial.....and they let him get off Scott free and go home to Alabama to live happily ever after

I know. I didn't even know her as you did and it will always bother me to no end from following this case. I would say though that I seriously doubt he's a happy man. No happy person could do as he did. Hopefully he is slowly rotting from the inside out.

 

[Takeitfromme]

I know. I didn't even know her as you did and it will always bother me to no end from following this case. I would say though that I seriously doubt he's a happy man. No happy person could do as he did. Hopefully he is slowly rotting from the inside out.

He's a miserable angry unpleasant person. Most of his own family thinks that as well

 

[Tresir]

Time changes here in just days. Thank goodness!! It will be darker in morning but light longer at night which I PREFER.

I've kept track of birthdays and can remember all down to my folks' grandchildren. I lost track with the greats other than my own grandkids.

My family though has October, January, March and my stepson is June. The ex is no longer counted.

Extended family more are in some of those months. March and June are huge with my brothers and sisters (brothers passed now) and mom. Dad was August. And then my nieces, nephews and their kids also fill those months and others. I lost track as I said.

My one sister has all the dates, I need to get more like that. As to keeping up with all the newer generations. I still I know though like my grandparents (passed) birthdays. January, February, September and November.

Just you in December. I was always a lonely October. Later on I do have one nephew who is in my month.

FIVE DAYS until the clocks change here! I'm ready for it!

No my mother's was also December, just two days after mine. Everyone else were spring and summer birthdays. Our clocks change a week after yours. Weather has been glorious here the last week. Hello summertime.

 

[GrandmaBear]

No my mother's was also December, just two days after mine. Everyone else were spring and summer birthdays. Our clocks change a week after yours. Weather has been glorious here the last week. Hello summertime.

Summertime? We are hardly dancing with spring here, we just had sn*w yesterday. I don't think for as big as our extended is that we have any December birthdays. I'm not up on all of my mom's great grandkids, (my sib's grandkids) or their birthdays but I don't think we have a single December. One daughter of mine is January.

Our weather has been decent--for here-- it it's not spring or growth or blooming season nor summer by a long shot.

 

[Takeitfromme]

MaryAnn Campbell reached out to me this morning..... she had moved away and didn't know that McClendon had been found not guilty...... she's devastated

 

[Takeitfromme]

MaryAnn Campbell reached out to me this morning..... she had moved away and didn't know that McClendon had been found not guilty...... she's devastated

she was the one who lived next to the lasalle club

 

[GrandmaBear]

she was the one who lived next to the lasalle club

She would have likely rather not known, I can imagine. That jury needs their collective heads examined.

 

[Takeitfromme]

She would have likely rather not known, I can imagine. That jury needs their collective heads examined.

The poor woman is so devastated and upset.

 

[Regina]

As I understand it, there's other DNA that was collected from her shirt that didn't match the other profile and so I wonder whether that was ever matched.

 

[Takeitfromme]

As I understand it, there's other DNA that was collected from her shirt that didn't match the other profile and so I wonder whether that was ever matched.

I can't get answers on that. I've tried..... but if there is any possible link between Cheryl Noone and my friend Melissa I will make sure its found

 

[Regina]

I can't get answers on that. I've tried..... but if there is any possible link between Cheryl Noone and my friend Melissa I will make sure its found

I didn't mean to imply there was a link, I'm just trying to gain a better understanding of the evidence.

 

[Takeitfromme]

I didn't mean to imply there was a link, I'm just trying to gain a better understanding of the evidence.

Oh no I didn't take it that way.....but the cases are eerily similar.... I loved Melissa very much, like a big sis..... it sucks she got no justice..... but I would love to help try to get justice for Cheryl Noone if there is evidence that could be helpful in solving her case