Per ABC News, after decades of searching, a suspect was finally found. Marvin McClendon Jr., a 74-year-old who now lives in Alabama, was arrested in April 2022, some 34 years after the crime. McClendon formerly worked for the Mаssаchusetts Depаrtment of Corrections, though he has since retired. He was a corrections officer between 1970 to 2002 and also reportedly worked as a carpenter, according to Boston.com. 

McClendon reportedly lived in Chelmsford but paid frequent visits to Lawrence in 1988, where Tremblay was murdered. He worked in Lawrence and was apparently doing a carpentry job there at the time. Officers say that after bringing in a cold case team in 2014, they were able to uncover fresh evidence that pointed to the suspect (via the Essex District Attorney’s Office). The District Attorney noted that McClendon is considered innocent until proven guilty since he has not yet been arraigned.

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