Main: Marvin “Skip” McClendon Jr. in court on Tuesday (WCVB). Inset: Melissa Ann Tremblay (Essex County DA’s Office).
A 76-year-old former corrections officer in Massachusetts has been acquitted in the murder of an 11-year-old girl who was stabbed to death in a railroad yard more than 30 years ago. An Essex County jury this week found Marvin “Skip” McClendon Jr. not guilty of first-degree murder in the 1988 slaying of Melissa Ann Tremblay.
The verdict came down on Tuesday following six days of deliberation and only one day after jurors told the judge they were deadlocked, The Associated Press reported. The case reportedly came down to whether DNA recovered from Melissa’s body belonged to McClendon.
Prosecutors reportedly argued that the DNA recovered from Melissa’s body excluded 99.8% of the male population,” but defense attorneys claimed there was no poof the DNA came from McClendon.
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