ColdPriorityCriminal · Homicide· Suffolk County, MA

The Quillen Homicide (1974)

Unsolved homicide from 1974 in Suffolk County, MA. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the tip line transcripts.

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Steel bridge over dark water under a grey sky
Source: Vermilion ledger illustration
Timeline
  1. 1974

    Body discovered near Cedar Hollow; the county opens a homicide investigation.

  2. 1975

    Initial canvass closes without a named suspect; the case goes inactive.

  3. 1990

    Evidence is re-submitted for testing under a cold case grant.

  4. Recently

    Ledger contributors reopen the evidence inventory and index the public record.

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2 filed
archive_moth1 day ago

Newspaper coverage from the following month quotes a detail that never appears in any filing. Someone briefed a reporter.

144 agree
record_room1 week ago

County weather records contradict the stated ground conditions in the scene report. That changes the tyre impression reading.

205 agree

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