NE Unsolved: The murder of Charline Rosemond

I'll never forget the assignment on April 13, 2009. I was sent to Everett, Mass., where the family of a missing woman was desperately waiting for some positive news.

 

When I walked up the stairs to the family's living room, I found photographs of Charline Rosemond spread out on a table. There were pictures of Charline in a graduation gown. Another of Charline dressed up for a night on the town. In all of them, Charline wore a bright smile that could light up any room.

 

It was immediately clear to me that there would be no positive news for Charline's family. Just a few feet away, Charline's mother held her head in hands. She was wailing. She was inconsolable.

 

I soon found out Charline's family learned heartbreaking news: Charline had been found. She had been shot to death in her father's car, parked behind an apartment building in nearby Somerville.

 

"My mom fell to the floor. My dad ran out of the house. And everyone started crying," Roserlie Rosemond, Charline's younger sister, told me when I recently met with her in the same living room I remember visiting that sad night in 2009.

 

Four years later Charline's case remains unsolved. And Roserlie is doing all she can to find justice for her sister.

 

"It's tough each and every year. Each and every day that nothing has happened. I can never get my sister back," Roserlie told me.

 

Charline Rosemond was last seen on April 7, 2009. That morning, Charline told her mother a friend was going to help her buy a car. Charline had $4,000 cash on her. Roserlie remembers her mother warning Charline not to carry so much cash.

 

"Make sure you leave that money at home until you are ready. Someone might hurt you or try to kill you for the money," Roserlie remembers her mother telling Charline.

 

At 23 years old, Charline still lived with her family. Most mornings, she would take the 'T' to work at a car dealership in Boston. But on this day, Charline borrowed her father's car, promising to return it early that night. Charline never came home.

 

Roserlie is convinced someone still in the Somerville-Everett area knows exactly what happened to Charline, but is so far not talking to authorities.

 

"I grew up in Somerville, " Charline told me. "And to think all of these people that I've known for years won't even help me, is very tough."

 

The only arrest in the case came when a man police call a significant witness, was picked up on two perjury charges. The DA says that man lied to a grand jury, providing false alibis for two central figures in the investigation. But to this day, no one has ever been arrested for the murder of Charline Rosemond.

 

If you have any information about Charline Rosemond's murder, you are urged to contact Massachusetts State Police at 781. 897.6650.