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.

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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.

 

[Regina]

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

One difference I see is that (it appears to me) Melissa was attacked and murdered in the trainyard but Cheryl was abducted and murdered somewhere other than where her body was found.

 

[Takeitfromme]

One difference I see is that (it appears to me) Melissa was attacked and murdered in the trainyard but Cheryl was abducted and murdered somewhere other than where her body was found.

that's correct. Cheryl was walking what should have been nearly a straight shot RIGHT AT THE SAME RAILYARD that Melissa was found in..... but they found Cheryl near the tracks, 4 miles away in Methuen in an area I know well on Pine Street...........
One of my first full time jobs was on Pine Street in Methuen