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USA Today
13-05-2025
- USA Today
Man pleads not guilty to murder, misleading investigators in connection to 2009 cold case
Man pleads not guilty to murder, misleading investigators in connection to 2009 cold case A Massachusetts man has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge and other charges in connection to the death of a 23-year-old woman killed in 2009. Prosecutors in Middlesex County, part of northeastern Massachusetts, announced the charges on April 10, indicting Heinsky Anacreon, 38, in connection to the death of 23-year-old Charline Rosemond. Rosemond was last seen alive on April 7, 2009 in Somerville, about two miles north of Cambridge, prosecutors said. Nearly a week later on April 13, her body was found slumped in her father's car in a parking lot. Anacreon, of Malden, was previously charged with first degree murder, misleading a police officer and misleading an attorney, the Middlesex District Attorney's Office said. He pleaded not guilty to all charges on May 12, according to court documents obtained by USA TODAY. Another man authorities say was involved, Roberto Jeune, was a friend of Rosemond and died of natural causes in Philadelphia on July 8, 2024. On May 13, C. Henry Fasoldt, Anacreon's defense attorney, said he did not kill Rosemond. "She was killed by someone else," Fasoldt wrote in an email to USA TODAY. "Mr. Anacreon looks forward to holding the government to its very high burden." What happened to Charline Rosemond? When she died, Rosemond lived with her family in Everett, about four miles from where her body was found, prosecutors said. She worked at a car dealership and according to friends and family, she had been driving her father's car until she got her own. She planned to buy a used Lexus. Earlier that week, on April 3, 2009, she had withdrawn $4,100 to buy the car, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said at the press conference. On April 7, she left work and texted a friend, Ryan said. She texted her friend until about 9:15 p.m. that night, and she was never heard from again. According to prosecutors, Rosemond thought of Jeune as one of her closest friends. When he found out she was looking for a Lexus, he told her he could connect her to someone. According to prosecutors, Anacreon was able to find the type of car Rosemond wanted through his job, a used car dealership in Somerville. Investigators said that based on evidence they found, Anacreon and Jeune told Rosemond she had to pay in cash and talked her into bringing the cash to a remote parking lot, where she was shot and killed. According to Ryan, Anacreon's boss had a no cash only policy and accepted bank checks and other forms of payment when he sold cars. She had been shot in the head from behind, and the bullet went through the headrest of the driver's seat and no cash was found at the scene, Ryan said. Prosecutors: Suspects shared 'a celebratory bottle' of champagne after killing Although both Jeune and Anacreon spoke to police shortly after her death and denied any involvement, Anacreon allegedly admitted to a close confidant that he supplied the .44 Magnum firearm used to kill her, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said he also admitted to throwing the weapon into a river, although the weapon was never recovered. When investigators searched Jeune's home, they found no gun, but they did find two gun cases and a pair of latex gloves, Ryan said. "Jeune did not have a license to possess firearms and did not work in the medical field, so there was no ready explanation or possession of either of those," Ryan said. "Also recovered during that execution of that search warrant was an empty bottle of Moët champagne." Anacreon had been seen driving the same type of Lexus the victim was buying in April of 2009, and he also told his bosses that he was showing the car to a potential buyer, Ryan said. Just after the shooting on April 7, 2009, Jeune and Anacreon "shared a celebratory bottle of Moët champagne," Ryan said, adding that the bottle was found while investigators searched Jeune's home. Defendant blamed co-conspirator, court documents show Ryan said Anacreon tried to hide his involvement in the woman's death by telling her family and investigators he wasn't there and had no idea what happened. According to court documents obtained by USA TODAY, Anacreon told police on May 21, 2024 that Jeune killed Rosemond. He said he didn't participate in the planned robbery or murder, and said he heard Jeune asking other people for guns before the murder. He said Jeune never asked him for a weapon, though. Calling Rosemond a "promising and hard-working young woman," Ryan said her life was cut short. "We allege today that she was taken advantage of and murdered by two men who were willing to take her life for $4,000," she said. "They killed her in cold blood. They celebrated the murder with a bottle of champagne, and they left her body in a parking lot for days, while her family frantically searched for her." Why did it take so long to charge someone? When asked about it taking 16 years to charge the defendant with so much evidence gathered, Ryan said prosecutors need to be certain when they move forward with charges because once charges are filed, "the clock starts to run." "It is a momentous thing in anyone's life for us to be charging them with murder," she said, adding that although investigators executed search warrants and conducted interviews, they did not have enough evidence to secure an indictment. Ryan said that people often don't realize the hundreds of hours and thousands of tests that have been put into these cases behind the scenes. "We have made a commitment in this office that we will not give up on these cases, and I think we met that commitment," she said. Saleen Martin is a reporter on USA TODAY's NOW team. She is from Norfolk, Virginia – the 757. Email her at sdmartin@
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Yahoo
She hoped to buy a new car and instead was found dead inside one. 16 years later, police say they arrested the killer
A Massachusetts man and his friend allegedly shot and killed a woman in 2009 and then celebrated her murder with a bottle of champagne while her family frantically searched for her. More than 16 years later, Heinsky Anacreon, now 38, has been indicted on murder charges in the 2009 shooting death of 23-year-old Charline Rosemond, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan has announced. Anacreon appeared in court on Monday where he pleaded not guilty to the charges of murder, willfully misleading a police officer and willfully misleading an attorney. Rosemond was last seen alive in Somerville on April 7, 2009. Her family reported her missing after she didn't return home with her father's car. Six days later, Rosemond's body was found in her father's car in a parking lot on April 13. She had been shot in the head. Just days before she was killed, Rosemond withdrew $4,100 in cash from the bank with plans to buy a used Lexus, authorities said. But Anacreon, along with another man, Roberto Jeune, who Rosemond believed to be her close friend, allegedly convinced her that Jeune knew someone who could get her the same type of car at a better price, the Middlesex District Attorneys' Office Cold Case Unit said in a news release when he was arrested last month. On the day Rosemond vanished, the two men had allegedly lured her to a remote parking lot where she was shot and killed. She did not have cash on her, which led investigators to believe she had been robbed. Anacreon later admitted to a close confidant that he had provided the .44 Magnum firearm that was used to kill Rosemond, prosecutors said. He then tossed the gun into an unknown body of water, authorities said. The murder weapon has never been found. On Sunday, the district attorney said the indictment of Anacreon is the first step in 'holding him accountable for Charline Rosemond's murder. It is another reminder of our commitment to neither forgetting nor giving up on uncharged cases.' 'Charline Rosemond was a promising and hard-working young woman with her whole life ahead of her,' Ryan continued. '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. They celebrated the murder with a bottle of champagne, and they left her body in a parking lot for days, while her family frantically searched for her.' Anacreon is currently serving a six-year sentence in prison on an unrelated charge. He is expected to return to court on June 24. Roberto Jeune died of natural causes in Philadelphia on July 8, 2024, authorities said. But the district attorney has said she believes Jeune would have also been indicted if he were still alive.
Boston Globe
10-04-2025
- Boston Globe
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.' Related : Advertisement 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. Advertisement 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. Nick Stoico can be reached at
