50 years later, police search solutions in 1973 killing of 19-year-old Tewksbury girl

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5 many years after Judith Merenda Cadorette was discovered murdered in Andover, officers are asking for assist fixing the chilly case.

5 many years after Judith Merenda Cadorette’s physique was found in a wooded space in Andover, investigators are utilizing the anniversary of her homicide to ask for assist cracking the 1973 chilly case. 

Cadorette was final seen on July 2, 1973, on the Vacation Inn close to Routes 38 and 495 in Tewksbury, Massachusetts State Police mentioned in a information launch. A 1977 Lowell Solar article signifies Cadorette — a 19-year-old divorcee six weeks shy of her second marriage ceremony — joined associates on the Wamesit Drive-In in Tewksbury the evening she was final seen alive. 

Her physique turned up 4 days later in Andover, close to the ramp from Route 93 South to Route 133 West, state police mentioned. Cadorette had been strangled, The Boston Globe reported on the time.

Inside days of Cadorette’s killing, Andover police advised the Globe that they’d recognized suspects. Years later, nevertheless, the case stays unsolved. 

“We’re simply as pissed off as anybody else,” then-Essex District Lawyer John P.S. Burke advised the Solar in 1977. 

Cadorette’s mother and father, Anthony and Alice Merenda, waited indefinitely for justice for his or her daughter.

“I’ll by no means go to the grave till the day they discover the assassin,” Alice Merenda advised the Solar in 1977. “Why, oh why, did they do it?” 

State police mentioned Cadorette frequented the drive-in, Vacation Inn lounge, and Pewter Pot restaurant in Tewksbury. She had lengthy, darkish hair and poor eyesight, police mentioned. 

Authorities have requested anybody with data on the case to contact Andover Police Sgt. Mark Higgenbottom at 978-623-3500, Tewksbury Police Det. Sgt. Michael Donovan at 978-851-7373, Massachusetts State Police Lt. Peter Sherber at 978-766-5823, or the Essex District Lawyer’s Workplace at 978-745-6610.

“We’re at all times in search of proof, leads, witnesses and new data in any homicide case, irrespective of what number of years have handed,” Glen Johnson, a spokesperson for the Essex DA’s workplace, mentioned in an announcement. “We hope this unhappy anniversary could immediate some development within the case, to carry justice for Judith and those that knew and cherished her.”