Family of 2007 murder victim concerned about parallel to new case

BROCKTON, Mass. — Nine years after a woman's grisly death in Wilmington, her brother is concerned about a new Massachusetts murder case.

In 2007, Danielle Oliverio's body was discovered in an industrial area in Wilmington, Mass.

She was badly beaten and set on fire.

"It's just hard. You don't know what happened," Brendan Oliverio said.

According to the death certificate, Oliverio may have been alive when she was set on fire.

"They said there was smoke in her lungs," Oliverio said.

It's been nine years and there has been no arrest, no suspects and no real developments. Danielle Oliverio was a 26-year-old single mother at the time she was killed.

Last month, Vanessa Marcotte was murdered while out jogging in Princeton -- her body set on fire. The 27-year-old's killer has not been found.

Law enforcement officials have not drawn any connections between the two killings, but Brendan Oliverio is watching the new investigation closely.

In one sense, they are connected in what the families have had to go through and Oliverio offered his condolences to the Marcotte family.

"Try to hold onto hope. Stay strong," he said. "Hopefully they get answers soon adn they don't have to go through what we went through."

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