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The Advertiser
3 days ago
- General
- The Advertiser
'We're struggling': calls for childcare subsidy to include grandparents
Access to childcare has been an issue for Kate Brow ever since she became a mum eight years ago. Ms Brow lives on a farm on the outskirts of Bibbenluke in southern NSW, about 170km south of Canberra. There is only one childcare centre in the nearest town, Bombala. It is often full, and for Ms Brow, who works remotely for the charity Motherland Australia, finding appropriate care for her three young daughters has been a constant source of stress. The situation is exacerbated because her parents and in-laws live between two and seven hours away. Ms Brow is one of more than 12,000 signatories to a petition calling on the federal government to allow the childcare subsidy to be used for a broader range of care options, including grandparents. "What I needed was financial support so I could put in stop gaps, so I could go back to work and it was affordable to go back to work," she told ACM. "The childrens' grandparents have to travel many hours to look after them and being able to pay them to compensate for those expenses or a nanny would help." Ms Brow said the lack of childcare options in regional and rural areas was a "massive" challenge for families. "So many rural mothers that we work with across Australia are not even remotely near a childcare facility," she said. "They just need affordable options (nannies or au pairs) to enable them to contribute to the workforce if that's what they choose to do ." The petition started by For Parents calls on the federal government to allow the childcare subsidy to be broadened to include grandparents, nannies, au pairs and co-working spaces. Currently, the subsidy could only be used at an approved federal government child care service. Co-founder of the petition, Jen Fleming, told ACM that parents needed more choice. "We are in an economy where most families have both parents working to pay off a mortgage," she said. Ms Fleming said the recent scandals in the childcare sector, including Melbourne childcare worker Joshua Brown, who is accused of abusing dozens of children, resulting in thousands of kids requiring STD tests, had left parents "distrustful" and "heartbroken". "We are saying if your child is eligible for the childcare subsidy, you should have more choice for who is looking after them, for some it is a nanny, for others a grandparent," she said. Ms Fleming set up the petition with a couple of other local parents. The mum of two lives in Camp Mountain, a semi-rural area 40km outside of Brisbane. She said when her first child, Elsie, was in childcare, her daughter was routinely sick and did not manage to bond with the staff because of the high number of staff turnover. Ms Fleming described the experience as "traumatic". She now has her own business, and her father and a nanny look after her daughters three days a week. "I'm not a rarity in this," she said. "As part of the petition, I've heard from a range of families who are struggling with this issue." One family said that they could not put their children in childcare because a family member was immunocompromised. "The one-size-fits-all is not working for a lot of people," she said. Federal early childhood education minister Dr Jess Walsh was contacted for comment. Access to childcare has been an issue for Kate Brow ever since she became a mum eight years ago. Ms Brow lives on a farm on the outskirts of Bibbenluke in southern NSW, about 170km south of Canberra. There is only one childcare centre in the nearest town, Bombala. It is often full, and for Ms Brow, who works remotely for the charity Motherland Australia, finding appropriate care for her three young daughters has been a constant source of stress. The situation is exacerbated because her parents and in-laws live between two and seven hours away. Ms Brow is one of more than 12,000 signatories to a petition calling on the federal government to allow the childcare subsidy to be used for a broader range of care options, including grandparents. "What I needed was financial support so I could put in stop gaps, so I could go back to work and it was affordable to go back to work," she told ACM. "The childrens' grandparents have to travel many hours to look after them and being able to pay them to compensate for those expenses or a nanny would help." Ms Brow said the lack of childcare options in regional and rural areas was a "massive" challenge for families. "So many rural mothers that we work with across Australia are not even remotely near a childcare facility," she said. "They just need affordable options (nannies or au pairs) to enable them to contribute to the workforce if that's what they choose to do ." The petition started by For Parents calls on the federal government to allow the childcare subsidy to be broadened to include grandparents, nannies, au pairs and co-working spaces. Currently, the subsidy could only be used at an approved federal government child care service. Co-founder of the petition, Jen Fleming, told ACM that parents needed more choice. "We are in an economy where most families have both parents working to pay off a mortgage," she said. Ms Fleming said the recent scandals in the childcare sector, including Melbourne childcare worker Joshua Brown, who is accused of abusing dozens of children, resulting in thousands of kids requiring STD tests, had left parents "distrustful" and "heartbroken". "We are saying if your child is eligible for the childcare subsidy, you should have more choice for who is looking after them, for some it is a nanny, for others a grandparent," she said. Ms Fleming set up the petition with a couple of other local parents. The mum of two lives in Camp Mountain, a semi-rural area 40km outside of Brisbane. She said when her first child, Elsie, was in childcare, her daughter was routinely sick and did not manage to bond with the staff because of the high number of staff turnover. Ms Fleming described the experience as "traumatic". She now has her own business, and her father and a nanny look after her daughters three days a week. "I'm not a rarity in this," she said. "As part of the petition, I've heard from a range of families who are struggling with this issue." One family said that they could not put their children in childcare because a family member was immunocompromised. "The one-size-fits-all is not working for a lot of people," she said. Federal early childhood education minister Dr Jess Walsh was contacted for comment. Access to childcare has been an issue for Kate Brow ever since she became a mum eight years ago. Ms Brow lives on a farm on the outskirts of Bibbenluke in southern NSW, about 170km south of Canberra. There is only one childcare centre in the nearest town, Bombala. It is often full, and for Ms Brow, who works remotely for the charity Motherland Australia, finding appropriate care for her three young daughters has been a constant source of stress. The situation is exacerbated because her parents and in-laws live between two and seven hours away. Ms Brow is one of more than 12,000 signatories to a petition calling on the federal government to allow the childcare subsidy to be used for a broader range of care options, including grandparents. "What I needed was financial support so I could put in stop gaps, so I could go back to work and it was affordable to go back to work," she told ACM. "The childrens' grandparents have to travel many hours to look after them and being able to pay them to compensate for those expenses or a nanny would help." Ms Brow said the lack of childcare options in regional and rural areas was a "massive" challenge for families. "So many rural mothers that we work with across Australia are not even remotely near a childcare facility," she said. "They just need affordable options (nannies or au pairs) to enable them to contribute to the workforce if that's what they choose to do ." The petition started by For Parents calls on the federal government to allow the childcare subsidy to be broadened to include grandparents, nannies, au pairs and co-working spaces. Currently, the subsidy could only be used at an approved federal government child care service. Co-founder of the petition, Jen Fleming, told ACM that parents needed more choice. "We are in an economy where most families have both parents working to pay off a mortgage," she said. Ms Fleming said the recent scandals in the childcare sector, including Melbourne childcare worker Joshua Brown, who is accused of abusing dozens of children, resulting in thousands of kids requiring STD tests, had left parents "distrustful" and "heartbroken". "We are saying if your child is eligible for the childcare subsidy, you should have more choice for who is looking after them, for some it is a nanny, for others a grandparent," she said. Ms Fleming set up the petition with a couple of other local parents. The mum of two lives in Camp Mountain, a semi-rural area 40km outside of Brisbane. She said when her first child, Elsie, was in childcare, her daughter was routinely sick and did not manage to bond with the staff because of the high number of staff turnover. Ms Fleming described the experience as "traumatic". She now has her own business, and her father and a nanny look after her daughters three days a week. "I'm not a rarity in this," she said. "As part of the petition, I've heard from a range of families who are struggling with this issue." One family said that they could not put their children in childcare because a family member was immunocompromised. "The one-size-fits-all is not working for a lot of people," she said. Federal early childhood education minister Dr Jess Walsh was contacted for comment. Access to childcare has been an issue for Kate Brow ever since she became a mum eight years ago. Ms Brow lives on a farm on the outskirts of Bibbenluke in southern NSW, about 170km south of Canberra. There is only one childcare centre in the nearest town, Bombala. It is often full, and for Ms Brow, who works remotely for the charity Motherland Australia, finding appropriate care for her three young daughters has been a constant source of stress. The situation is exacerbated because her parents and in-laws live between two and seven hours away. Ms Brow is one of more than 12,000 signatories to a petition calling on the federal government to allow the childcare subsidy to be used for a broader range of care options, including grandparents. "What I needed was financial support so I could put in stop gaps, so I could go back to work and it was affordable to go back to work," she told ACM. "The childrens' grandparents have to travel many hours to look after them and being able to pay them to compensate for those expenses or a nanny would help." Ms Brow said the lack of childcare options in regional and rural areas was a "massive" challenge for families. "So many rural mothers that we work with across Australia are not even remotely near a childcare facility," she said. "They just need affordable options (nannies or au pairs) to enable them to contribute to the workforce if that's what they choose to do ." The petition started by For Parents calls on the federal government to allow the childcare subsidy to be broadened to include grandparents, nannies, au pairs and co-working spaces. Currently, the subsidy could only be used at an approved federal government child care service. Co-founder of the petition, Jen Fleming, told ACM that parents needed more choice. "We are in an economy where most families have both parents working to pay off a mortgage," she said. Ms Fleming said the recent scandals in the childcare sector, including Melbourne childcare worker Joshua Brown, who is accused of abusing dozens of children, resulting in thousands of kids requiring STD tests, had left parents "distrustful" and "heartbroken". "We are saying if your child is eligible for the childcare subsidy, you should have more choice for who is looking after them, for some it is a nanny, for others a grandparent," she said. Ms Fleming set up the petition with a couple of other local parents. The mum of two lives in Camp Mountain, a semi-rural area 40km outside of Brisbane. She said when her first child, Elsie, was in childcare, her daughter was routinely sick and did not manage to bond with the staff because of the high number of staff turnover. Ms Fleming described the experience as "traumatic". She now has her own business, and her father and a nanny look after her daughters three days a week. "I'm not a rarity in this," she said. "As part of the petition, I've heard from a range of families who are struggling with this issue." One family said that they could not put their children in childcare because a family member was immunocompromised. "The one-size-fits-all is not working for a lot of people," she said. Federal early childhood education minister Dr Jess Walsh was contacted for comment.
The Advertiser
5 days ago
- Health
- The Advertiser
'We're struggling': calls for childcare subsidy to include to grandparents
Access to childcare has been an issue for Kate Brow ever since she became a mum eight years ago. Ms Brow lives on a farm on the outskirts of Bibbenluke, 170km south of Canberra. There is only one childcare centre in the nearest town, Bombala. It is often full, and for Ms Brow, who works remotely for the charity Motherland Australia, finding appropriate care for her three young daughters has been a constant source of stress. The situation is exacerbated because her parents and in-laws live between two and seven hours away. Ms Brow is one of more than 12,000 signatories to a petition calling on the federal government to allow the childcare subsidy to be used for a broader range of care options, including grandparents. "What I needed was financial support so I could put in stop gaps, so I could go back to work and it was affordable to go back to work," she told ACM. "The childrens' grandparents have to travel many hours to look after them and being able to pay them to compensate for those expenses or a nanny would help." Ms Brow said the lack of childcare options in regional and rural areas was a "massive" challenge for families. "So many rural mothers that we work with across Australia are not even remotely near a childcare facility," she said. "They just need affordable options (nannies or au pairs) to enable them to contribute to the workforce if that's what they choose to do ." The petition started by For Parents calls on the federal government to allow the childcare subsidy to be broadened to include grandparents, nannies, au pairs and co-working spaces. Currently, the subsidy could only be used at an approved federal government child care service. Co-founder of the petition, Jen Fleming, told ACM that parents needed more choice. "We are in an economy where most families have both parents working to pay off a mortgage," she said. Ms Fleming said the recent scandals in the childcare sector, including Melbourne childcare worker Joshua Brown, who is accused of abusing dozens of children, resulting in thousands of kids requiring STD tests, had left parents "distrustful" and "heartbroken". "We are saying if your child is eligible for the childcare subsidy, you should have more choice for who is looking after them, for some it is a nanny, for others a grandparent," she said. Ms Fleming set up the petition with a couple of other local parents. The mum of two lives in Camp Mountain, a semi-rural area 40km outside of Brisbane. She said when her first child, Elsie, was in childcare, her daughter was routinely sick and did not manage to bond with the staff because of the high number of staff turnover. Ms Fleming described the experience as "traumatic". She now has her own business, and her father and a nanny look after her daughters three days a week. "I'm not a rarity in this," she said. "As part of the petition, I've heard from a range of families who are struggling with this issue." One family said that they could not put their children in childcare because a family member was immunocompromised. "The one-size-fits-all is not working for a lot of people," she said. Federal early childhood education minister Dr Jess Walsh was contacted for comment. Access to childcare has been an issue for Kate Brow ever since she became a mum eight years ago. Ms Brow lives on a farm on the outskirts of Bibbenluke, 170km south of Canberra. There is only one childcare centre in the nearest town, Bombala. It is often full, and for Ms Brow, who works remotely for the charity Motherland Australia, finding appropriate care for her three young daughters has been a constant source of stress. The situation is exacerbated because her parents and in-laws live between two and seven hours away. Ms Brow is one of more than 12,000 signatories to a petition calling on the federal government to allow the childcare subsidy to be used for a broader range of care options, including grandparents. "What I needed was financial support so I could put in stop gaps, so I could go back to work and it was affordable to go back to work," she told ACM. "The childrens' grandparents have to travel many hours to look after them and being able to pay them to compensate for those expenses or a nanny would help." Ms Brow said the lack of childcare options in regional and rural areas was a "massive" challenge for families. "So many rural mothers that we work with across Australia are not even remotely near a childcare facility," she said. "They just need affordable options (nannies or au pairs) to enable them to contribute to the workforce if that's what they choose to do ." The petition started by For Parents calls on the federal government to allow the childcare subsidy to be broadened to include grandparents, nannies, au pairs and co-working spaces. Currently, the subsidy could only be used at an approved federal government child care service. Co-founder of the petition, Jen Fleming, told ACM that parents needed more choice. "We are in an economy where most families have both parents working to pay off a mortgage," she said. Ms Fleming said the recent scandals in the childcare sector, including Melbourne childcare worker Joshua Brown, who is accused of abusing dozens of children, resulting in thousands of kids requiring STD tests, had left parents "distrustful" and "heartbroken". "We are saying if your child is eligible for the childcare subsidy, you should have more choice for who is looking after them, for some it is a nanny, for others a grandparent," she said. Ms Fleming set up the petition with a couple of other local parents. The mum of two lives in Camp Mountain, a semi-rural area 40km outside of Brisbane. She said when her first child, Elsie, was in childcare, her daughter was routinely sick and did not manage to bond with the staff because of the high number of staff turnover. Ms Fleming described the experience as "traumatic". She now has her own business, and her father and a nanny look after her daughters three days a week. "I'm not a rarity in this," she said. "As part of the petition, I've heard from a range of families who are struggling with this issue." One family said that they could not put their children in childcare because a family member was immunocompromised. "The one-size-fits-all is not working for a lot of people," she said. Federal early childhood education minister Dr Jess Walsh was contacted for comment. Access to childcare has been an issue for Kate Brow ever since she became a mum eight years ago. Ms Brow lives on a farm on the outskirts of Bibbenluke, 170km south of Canberra. There is only one childcare centre in the nearest town, Bombala. It is often full, and for Ms Brow, who works remotely for the charity Motherland Australia, finding appropriate care for her three young daughters has been a constant source of stress. The situation is exacerbated because her parents and in-laws live between two and seven hours away. Ms Brow is one of more than 12,000 signatories to a petition calling on the federal government to allow the childcare subsidy to be used for a broader range of care options, including grandparents. "What I needed was financial support so I could put in stop gaps, so I could go back to work and it was affordable to go back to work," she told ACM. "The childrens' grandparents have to travel many hours to look after them and being able to pay them to compensate for those expenses or a nanny would help." Ms Brow said the lack of childcare options in regional and rural areas was a "massive" challenge for families. "So many rural mothers that we work with across Australia are not even remotely near a childcare facility," she said. "They just need affordable options (nannies or au pairs) to enable them to contribute to the workforce if that's what they choose to do ." The petition started by For Parents calls on the federal government to allow the childcare subsidy to be broadened to include grandparents, nannies, au pairs and co-working spaces. Currently, the subsidy could only be used at an approved federal government child care service. Co-founder of the petition, Jen Fleming, told ACM that parents needed more choice. "We are in an economy where most families have both parents working to pay off a mortgage," she said. Ms Fleming said the recent scandals in the childcare sector, including Melbourne childcare worker Joshua Brown, who is accused of abusing dozens of children, resulting in thousands of kids requiring STD tests, had left parents "distrustful" and "heartbroken". "We are saying if your child is eligible for the childcare subsidy, you should have more choice for who is looking after them, for some it is a nanny, for others a grandparent," she said. Ms Fleming set up the petition with a couple of other local parents. The mum of two lives in Camp Mountain, a semi-rural area 40km outside of Brisbane. She said when her first child, Elsie, was in childcare, her daughter was routinely sick and did not manage to bond with the staff because of the high number of staff turnover. Ms Fleming described the experience as "traumatic". She now has her own business, and her father and a nanny look after her daughters three days a week. "I'm not a rarity in this," she said. "As part of the petition, I've heard from a range of families who are struggling with this issue." One family said that they could not put their children in childcare because a family member was immunocompromised. "The one-size-fits-all is not working for a lot of people," she said. Federal early childhood education minister Dr Jess Walsh was contacted for comment. Access to childcare has been an issue for Kate Brow ever since she became a mum eight years ago. Ms Brow lives on a farm on the outskirts of Bibbenluke, 170km south of Canberra. There is only one childcare centre in the nearest town, Bombala. It is often full, and for Ms Brow, who works remotely for the charity Motherland Australia, finding appropriate care for her three young daughters has been a constant source of stress. The situation is exacerbated because her parents and in-laws live between two and seven hours away. Ms Brow is one of more than 12,000 signatories to a petition calling on the federal government to allow the childcare subsidy to be used for a broader range of care options, including grandparents. "What I needed was financial support so I could put in stop gaps, so I could go back to work and it was affordable to go back to work," she told ACM. "The childrens' grandparents have to travel many hours to look after them and being able to pay them to compensate for those expenses or a nanny would help." Ms Brow said the lack of childcare options in regional and rural areas was a "massive" challenge for families. "So many rural mothers that we work with across Australia are not even remotely near a childcare facility," she said. "They just need affordable options (nannies or au pairs) to enable them to contribute to the workforce if that's what they choose to do ." The petition started by For Parents calls on the federal government to allow the childcare subsidy to be broadened to include grandparents, nannies, au pairs and co-working spaces. Currently, the subsidy could only be used at an approved federal government child care service. Co-founder of the petition, Jen Fleming, told ACM that parents needed more choice. "We are in an economy where most families have both parents working to pay off a mortgage," she said. Ms Fleming said the recent scandals in the childcare sector, including Melbourne childcare worker Joshua Brown, who is accused of abusing dozens of children, resulting in thousands of kids requiring STD tests, had left parents "distrustful" and "heartbroken". "We are saying if your child is eligible for the childcare subsidy, you should have more choice for who is looking after them, for some it is a nanny, for others a grandparent," she said. Ms Fleming set up the petition with a couple of other local parents. The mum of two lives in Camp Mountain, a semi-rural area 40km outside of Brisbane. She said when her first child, Elsie, was in childcare, her daughter was routinely sick and did not manage to bond with the staff because of the high number of staff turnover. Ms Fleming described the experience as "traumatic". She now has her own business, and her father and a nanny look after her daughters three days a week. "I'm not a rarity in this," she said. "As part of the petition, I've heard from a range of families who are struggling with this issue." One family said that they could not put their children in childcare because a family member was immunocompromised. "The one-size-fits-all is not working for a lot of people," she said. Federal early childhood education minister Dr Jess Walsh was contacted for comment.
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26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
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Yahoo
13-06-2025
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Former Ogunquit man identified as killer in Massachusetts cold case
Jun. 13—The scene inside the trailer in Ayer, Massachusetts, on May 21, 1980 was grim: 48-year-old Katharina Reitz Brow lay dead, her body covered with 30 stab wounds and beaten with a blunt instrument. The knife she was killed with was left behind in a wastebasket. More than two years later, a man who lived nearby was arrested and convicted of her murder, but his conviction was vacated in 2001 after DNA analysis of a blood stain at the scene determined it was left by another man. The case sat cold for more than 20 years until advances in genetic genealogy allowed investigators to identify the man they believed killed Brow. The Middlesex County District Attorney's Office announced this week that the killer has been identified as Joseph Leo Boudreau, who was 37 and living in Massachusetts at the time of the murder. Boudreau moved to Ogunquit in 1987, where he lived until his death in 2004 at age 61. "Although the original conviction in this case was vacated, we did not stop there. We do not forget when someone enters Middlesex County and violently takes a person's life. No matter how much time passes, our priority remains the same, to seek answers," District Attorney Marian Ryan said during a press briefing on Thursday. "In this case, that meant identifying the person responsible for Mrs. Brow's death, even though they could no longer be held accountable through the criminal system. Today, we are able to name her killer and provide long-overdue clarity to her family," Ayer police Chief Brian Gill said Brow's brutal murder shook the town to its core. When Brow, described by Ryan as a hardworking wife, mother and sister, was found, police said she was killed sometime between 7:10 a.m., when her husband left for work, and 10:45 a.m. Brow's stab wounds included five to her heart. She had been repeatedly struck with a blunt object. There were signs of a struggle in the house and her purse, jewelry and a large amount of cash she kept tucked between sheets in a linen closet were missing. Kenneth Waters, who lived nearby and worked at a diner Brow frequented, was arrested on Oct. 13, 1982, and convicted of Brow's murder the following year. His conviction was vacated on March 15, 2001, after he was cleared because of advances in DNA technology. At the time of the original investigation, the crime laboratory was only able to do blood typing, Ryan said. The stain found at the house was type O blood, a match to Waters. The 2010 movie "Conviction" centered on Waters' wrongful conviction. After Waters' conviction was vacated, the case was assigned and reassigned to different investigators, but new information was never uncovered, Gill said. "The investigative breakthrough came when forensic investigative genetic genealogy DNA testing was applied to evidence recovered at the scene. This ultimately led us to today's announcement," he said, "I am thankful that we may be able to finally bring some closure to the Brow family and a measure of justice for Katharina." In March 2022, the Middlesex district attorney's cold case unit decided to use forensic investigative genetic genealogy, which DNA analysis combined with genealogical research to try to identify the source of the blood found at the murder scene. Ryan said investigators who worked with forensic chemists at Parabon NanoLabs isolated a genetic line that led them to identify a pair of brothers as potential suspects. The brothers are both deceased, Ryan said, but authorities were able to track down two relatives who cooperated with the investigation and provided DNA samples to investigators. Bode Laboratories analyzed the samples and determined "to an overwhelming statistical likelihood" that the blood came from Boudreau, Ryan said. His brother was eliminated as a possible suspect. Investigators have found no connection between Waters and Boudreau, Ryan said. Boudreau was born in Natick, Massachusetts, in 1943 and worked in the Framingham area as an adult. He was convicted of armed robbery in New Hampshire in 1975, according to investigators. Officials did not release any details about what Boudreau's life in Maine, saying only that he was living in Ogunquit when he died in 2004. Copy the Story Link We believe it's important to offer commenting on certain stories as a benefit to our readers. At its best, our comments sections can be a productive platform for readers to engage with our journalism, offer thoughts on coverage and issues, and drive conversation in a respectful, solutions-based way. It's a form of open discourse that can be useful to our community, public officials, journalists and others. We do not enable comments on everything — exceptions include most crime stories, and coverage involving personal tragedy or sensitive issues that invite personal attacks instead of thoughtful discussion. You can read more here about our commenting policy and terms of use. More information is also found on our FAQs. Show less
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13-06-2025
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Cold case solved: Killer identified in Mass. woman's 'brutal' murder from 45 years ago
After 45 years, investigators have named the person they believe is responsible for stabbing a 48-year-old woman to death in her Ayer home — thanks to genetic genealogy, the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office announced Thursday. On May 21, 1980, Katharina Reitz Brow was found dead in her trailer from 30 stab wounds, the district attorney's office said in a press release. Within years of her death, a man was wrongly convicted of her murder, but a new DNA analysis of a bloodstain found at the scene of the crime has identified Joseph Leo Boudreau as Brow's killer. Born in Natick in 1943, Boudreau was a long-time Massachusetts resident who worked in the Framingham area as an adult, the district attorney's office said. He was convicted of armed robbery in New Hampshire in 1975. Boudreau was 27 years old when Brow was killed, the district attorney's office said. He moved to Maine in 1987 and lived there until his death in 2004 at age 61. 'We do not forget when someone enters Middlesex County and violently takes a person's life. No matter how much time passes, our priority remains the same — to seek answers," Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said in the release. 'In this case, that meant identifying the person responsible for Mrs. Brow's death, even though they could no longer be held accountable through the criminal system.' On the day of her death, Brow was killed between 7:10 a.m. — when her husband left for work — and 10:45 a.m. when her body was found, Ryan said during a press conference about the case on Thursday. Five of the 30 stab wounds penetrated Brow's heart, and she was also hit repeatedly with some kind of blunt object. Brow was likely conscious for at least half of the attack, Ryan said. She is estimated to have remained alive for 10 to 20 minutes after the assault ended. The inside of Brow's home showed signs of a struggle, but no indications of forced entry, Ryan said. Her purse and a large sum of cash she kept in her linen closet were found to be missing, but investigators recovered one of the murder weapons — a knife — from a wastebasket inside the home. In October 1982, a man named Kenneth Waters was arrested and charged with Brow's murder, Ryan said. He lived near Brow and worked at Park Street Diner in Ayer, at which she was a regular. Waters was convicted of Brow's murder in May 1983 — partially based on analysis of a bloodstain left at the scene of the crime, the district attorney's office said. The blood was found to be type O — Waters' blood type. At the time of the conviction, blood typing was among the few analyses the crime lab responsible for the case was capable of conducting, the district attorney's office said. But Waters' conviction was vacated in March 2001 when DNA analysis of the bloodstain determined that it was left by a man — but not Waters. The 2010 movie 'Conviction,' starring Hilary Swank, tells the story of Waters' conviction and how it was overturned. 'Since the conviction in this case was vacated in 2001, many investigators had been assigned to review the investigation, follow up on leads and apply known investigative techniques. Unfortunately, information to further the investigation never developed,' Ayer Police Chief Brian Gill said in the release. In 2022, the district attorney's office's Cold Case Unit began working with forensic chemists at Virgina-based Parabon NanoLabs to try to identify the man who left the bloodstain using genetic genealogy, the district attorney's office said. Investigators isolated a genetic line that implicated two brothers as potential suspects — but both brothers were now dead. Investigators then tried to find the brothers' living relatives and ultimately convinced them to cooperate with the investigation, the district attorney's office said. Using DNA samples from the relatives, scientists at Virginia-based Bode Laboratories determined with 'an overwhelming statistical likelihood' that one of the brothers — Joseph Boudreau — was the man who'd left the bloodstain. Brow's family has been informed that their loved one's murder has been solved, Ryan said during the press conference. " Today, what's important is that we wanna keep the focus on Katharina Reitz Brow," she said. 'She was a hardworking wife, mother and sister who died violently in her own home.' Ex-detective charged with killing Sandra Birchmore was not her baby's father, report says Woman dragged into bushes by man with knife on road to Nahant 3 Mass. men indicted in connection with Worcester mother, son's shooting deaths Chelsea man charged with murder in fatal stabbing of high schooler in March Three arraigned for trafficking cocaine in Westfield Read the original article on MassLive.
