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Nearly 50 years after the crime, Massachusetts district attorney says teenager was murdered by a Catholic priest
Nearly 50 years after a Massachusetts teenager was murdered, officials announced Monday that a Catholic priest close to the family was responsible for the crime.
On Friday, officials were obtaining an arrest warrant for Richard R. Lavigne, but he died that evening in the hospital, Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni’s office said in a statement Monday. Lavigne had some physical ailments, Gulluni said at a news conference, and had not been well for a period of time.
Daniel Croteau, 13, was found dead in the Connecticut River in Chicopee, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1972, wearing the clothes he’d worn to the local Catholic school a day earlier, the DA’s office said.
Hampden DA: Former priest killed boy, 13, nearly 50 years ago
Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni announces Monday, May 24, 2021, that nearly 50 years after police discovered the dead body of 13-year-old Danny Croteau floating in the Chicopee River, his office concluded that Croteau’s killer was former Catholic priest Richard Lavigne, a convicted sex offender who died Friday. STAFF PHOTO/DUSTY CHRISTENSEN
A photo of 13-year-old Danny Croteau, who in 1972 was found dead in the Chicopee River. Hampden County’s top prosecutor has announced that his office concluded Croteau’s killer was former Catholic priest Richard Lavigne, a convicted sex offender who died Friday. SUBMITTED PHOTO
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Nearly five decades after an altar boy was found dead in a Massachusetts river, the district attorney says the case is closed.
Danny Croteau, 13, was found dead along the Chicopee River in Springfield on April 15, 1972. He had been bludgeoned to death.
Former Catholic priest Richard R. Lavigne was named as a suspect in the case but never charged. He died Friday, Hampden District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni said. In fact, earlier that day, I authorized members of my office s state police detective unit to present the facts of our investigation to a magistrate in order to obtain a complaint and arrest warrant for Richard Lavigne, Gulluni said.