SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Friends and family have been fighting or answers in an unsolved murder for 22 years, but now they’re begging for help from the one person they say hasn’t been.
"I was in the living room, I woke up at 12 o'clock Deanna wasn't home, so I paged her," said Kathy Cremin, Deanna Cremins's mother.
Kathy never received a response, so the next morning she called Thomas Leblanc, her boyfriend at the time.
She had been over there watching T.V.
He told her that he walked her halfway home.
"Tommy never walk Deanna halfway home, he walked her all the way home, every night," said Kathy.
Deanna’s body was found about a block from where he told the family he left her in Somerville on March 30, 1995.
She was just 17.
"She was strangled manually. I heard it was a sexual assault. I heard that her bones were broken," said Kathy.
Kathy has never lost hope, as the years pass and justice continues to go unserved.
Thursday, Kathy wrote a letter to ‘Tommy’ Leblanc asking him to help the family in their effort to find more information in her death.
Police say he hasn’t been heard from or seen recently.
“Today, on the 22nd anniversary of my daughter Deanna's death, I'm still haunted by questions. For that reason, I'm begging you to please reach out the Mass State Police and be kind enough to offer to be re-interviewed. I'm well aware of how painful it is for you to go back down this road, but I'm pleading with you to help me, help Deanna. You were the last one to spend time with her that night, nobody can help her case like you can. Please Tommy, please help. Please reach out to the MSP Chief of Homicide781-897-8300.”
>>Tonight on FOX25 News at 10, Malini Basu speaks to Kathy Cremin about the investigation
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