J.M. Armor appears in a Boston court as the perpetrator of a murder 44 years ago/WHDH
2023.09.16 Sat posted at 16:44 JST
(CNN) Prosecutors in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, announced on the 16th that a 68-year-old man has been arrested in Oregon for the unsolved assault and murder of a woman that occurred 44 years ago in Boston, Massachusetts. He handed himself in to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) branch in Portland, state, and reported that he had admitted to the crime.
Although the motive for turning himself in has not been reported, the suspect’s lawyer has indicated that he will not contest the bail request or the charges against him.
The suspect appeared in court in Boston and was charged with the murder of the then-24-year-old woman, according to a press release from prosecutors. He appeared at the FBI branch in Portland in August of this year and confessed to investigators that he had met and killed the victim at a Boston skating rink on October 30, 1979, around Halloween.
It was confirmed that DNA samples collected at the crime scene matched those of the suspect. The fact that the victim was a red-haired woman and the murders took place in the same location was also a deciding factor, according to the confession.
According to the suspect’s statement, he killed the victim by hitting him in the head with a hammer he had obtained from a building that was undergoing renovations at the time of the crime. He also admitted to raping her after she died.
The woman’s cause of death was determined to be multiple blunt force trauma to the head and a skull fracture.
Another man was suspected of being responsible for this incident, but it was discovered in 1981 that he was unrelated.
The Suffolk County prosecutor’s office said the suspect also admitted to involvement in another murder in a southern state, and that related investigations are underway. He also revealed that he had committed murder in California and served “about 30 years” in prison.
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2023-09-16 07:44:00
