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Former New Bedford and Acushnet resident David Reed is ordered held without bail for allegedly bludgeoning his half-sister to death in 2001 cold case.

Nearly 20 years after US woman Rose Marie Moniz was found dead in a pool of blood, DNA recovered from a conch shell has helped solve the case.

State, DA in dispute over cutting-edge DNA database © WCVB State, DA in dispute over cutting-edge DNA database Shown the promise of partial DNA results to solve crime, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn began creating a database with the partial DNA results from unsolved rape cases. But his hopes of expanding the database and sharing the information with other DAs around the state has been stymied by the Baker administration, which has privacy concerns and said the sharing agreem...

Updated: 3:12 PM EST Feb 19, 2021 Karen Anderson Kevin Rothstein Thousands of rape kits from Massachusetts victims dating back to the year 2000 have never been DNA tested, according to an audit of the backlog hidden from public view until now.The backlog persisted even after advocates and lawmakers thought legislation passed in 2018 was going to address it. The Joyful Heart Foundation, an advocacy group supporting legislation to end the backlog of rape kits, ...

Man who hid in Maine for years now sentenced for 4 rapes in Massachusetts Ivan Keith already had been sentenced in 2 rapes, and his sentencing in 2 others means he will spend 44 to 50 years in prison. By Associated Press Share FALL RIVER, Mass. — A man already in prison for two rapes in Massachusetts in the 1990s has pleaded guilty to raping two more women, prosecutors say. Ivan Keith Photo courtesy of the Hancock County Jail Ivan Keith, 63, who fled to Maine where he lived under an alias...

FALL RIVER — A Maine man will spend what "amounts to life in prison" due to his age after recently being sentenced to an additional two to three decades in prison for rapes that occurred in Easton and Taunton in the 1990s. Ivan Keith, 63, formerly of Bridgewater, was convicted in Fall River Superior Court Tuesday of indictments charging him with five counts of aggravated rape, two counts of kidnapping, three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of threats and on...

‘Nothing short of pure evil;’ Ivan Keith pleads guilty to rapes in Massachusetts dating back to the 1990s, will spend decades in prison Updated Feb 17, 2021; Facebook Share Ivan Keith, a 63-year-old who man fled Massachusetts 18 years ago in an alleged attempt to avoid being connected to at least four rapes dating back to the 1990s, has pleaded guilty to a series of charges, officials said, and is now expected to spend the rest of his life in prison. Victims of the rapes recounted during a...

Serial Rapist From Southeastern Mass Sentenced to Prison A 63-year-old former Bridgewater man who fled the state 18 years ago to avoid investigation and prosecution for at least four brutal rapes dating back to the 1990s will spend the next 44 to 50 years in prison, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced today. Ivan Keith pleaded guilty in Fall River Superior Court Tuesday to five counts of aggravated rape, two counts of kidnapping, three counts of assault and battery wi...

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — A man already in prison for two rapes in Massachusetts in the...

Accused serial rapist Ivan Keith pleads guilty to 1996 rape in Quincy, sentenced to up to 20 years in state prison Updated Dec 10, 2020; Facebook Share Ivan Keith, who has been charged with rape in Bristol, Norfolk and Plymouth counties, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping a woman in Quincy in 1996, the Norfolk District Attorney’s office said on Wednesday. Keith pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated rape and aggravated kidnapping and two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous...