Search for killer continues in Mass. teen's 1995 murder
SOMERVILLE, Mass. - On March 30, 1995, the body of Massachusetts teen Deanna Cremin was found near a housing complex - two blocks away from her suburban Boston home and just days after her 17th birthday.
A medical examiner later determined that she was strangled. 20 years later, her family is still searching for justice in their daughter's murder.
"Somebody brutally murdered her and strangled her," her mother, Katherine Cremin, told CBS Boston in 2013. "And it's just wrong that there aren't any answers, you know I don't know what happened."
There have never been any arrests in the case, though family suspects her boyfriend at the time may have been involved.
Katherine Cremin told Boston.com that the boyfriend often walked Deanna home from his house every night, making sure she got inside and calling her when he got home. However, on the night she was murdered, he told investigators that only walked her halfway, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan told the site.
"He didn't call that night," Deanna's older sister, Christine Cremin, told CBS Boston in 2013. "He didn't cooperate with the police. He walked her halfway home. I just, I don't, I don't believe that he's innocent."
He's never been charged in connection to the investigation, which is still open.
In the days following her death, police were also looking for an unidentified man - described by police as 5 feet, 11 inches tall and between 10 to 170 pounds - who was seen near in the area where the body was found, according to the Boston Globe. They also reportedly interviewed an unnamed member of the Somerville Fire Department, who had recently taken an interest in her, her friends told police.
Anyone with information is asked to call 617-544-7167.
There is also a $70,000 reward being offered for information leading to an arrest.