An Alabama man charged with the 1988 murder of an 11-year-old girl in Massachusetts was found not guilty by jurors in his second trial on Nov. 5.
Marvin McClendon Jr. of Breman, Alabama, was arrested in 2022 for the murder of Melissa Ann Tremblay, whose body was found in the old Boston and Maine Railway Yard in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Sept. 12, 1988.
His first trial ended in a mistrial last year after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict.
Tremblay, a resident of Salem, New Hampshire, was with her mother and mother’s boyfriend at a social club in Lawrence on Sept. 11, 1988, before her death. While the adults stayed inside the club, Tremblay went outside and played nearby….