Val Mayfield News Today

The horrific murder of an 11-year-old girl four decades ago in Dorchester’s Ronan Park is again stirring emotions as a proposal to re-name a playground inside the park as a memorial to the victim is under consideration by city officials. Maryann Hanley was found murdered and raped in the park on Aug. 1, 1983. The then-boyfriend, Val Mayfield, of one of her sisters, was

A parole hearing is scheduled to be held Thursday 40 years after 11-year-old Maryann Hanley was killed in a Boston park.

"Why do you get a second chance? Does she get a second chance?"