A man contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the North American Federal Police and confessed to a brutal crime: he killed a woman 44 years ago. The statement was made on Monday the 11th by Suffolk County Boston Prosecutor Kevin Hayden.
By turning himself in, 68yearold John Michael Irmer ensured that authorities were able to close an unsolved case in Boston. O Assassin commito was charged in city court with the murder of 24yearold Susan Marcia Rose on October 30, 1979.
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According to Hayden, Irmer went to an FBI field office in Portland, Oregon, and confessed to the crime.
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Irmer said he met a redhaired woman at a skating rink in Boston on Halloween 1979. According to him, the two then went together to a building that was being renovated when he took a hammer and began hitting the woman. He also confessed to committing necrophilia he committed rape after the murder.
For the Authorities discovered that Rose, who had red hair, was found dead on October 30, 1979, on the exact street described by the man. The cause of death was determined to be multiple blunt force injuries to the head with fractures to the skull and lacerations to the brain.
While Irmer was free and silent for more than 40 years, according to North American broadcaster CBS News, in 1981 a man was accused of the crime but declared innocent. The killer’s DNA test showed a match to samples from the crime scene.
“Nearly 44 years after losing her at such a young age, Susan Marcia Rose’s family and friends will finally have answers,” District Attorney Kevin Hayden said in a statement.
A judge ordered Irmer held without bail on murder and aggravated rape charges.
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