Malden man indicted in 2009 cold case slaying of Charline Rosemond in Somerville
'Charline Rosemond was a promising and hard-working young woman with her whole life ahead of her,' Ryan said in a statement. 'We allege today that she was taken advantage of and murdered by two men who were willing to take her life for $4,000. They killed her in cold blood.'
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Rosemond, whose case was featured in the
One day in April 2009, she told friends and family that after shift she planned to meet with a person her friend knew who was selling their Lexus.
Rosemond had borrowed her father's car that morning to go to work and had $4,000 in cash on her in case she decided to buy the Lexus.
Her sister, Roserlie Rosemond, told the Globe last year that her sister said she'd be home that night by 6 or 7 p.m. The next morning, Roserlie was woken up by her mother who said Charline had not come home.
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Her family contacted the police and reported her missing.
Almost a week later, she was found dead in Somerville with a gunshot wound to her head, her body slumped over in the driver's seat of her father's gray 2001 Honda Civic, which was parked behind a five-story apartment building in Union Square.
'Evidence developed by the Cold Case Unit of the Middlesex District Attorneys' Office revealed that, acting together, Anacreon and his friend, Roberto Jeune, induced the victim to bring the cash she had withdrawn to a remote parking lot, where she was shot and killed,' the district attorney's office said in a statement.
This breaking news story will be updated. Material from previous Globe coverage was used in this report.
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