A judge has blasted the police after it took over two years for a rapist to be brought to court and jailed. Meynard Murambakanda, 32, raped a vulnerable woman twice back in May 2020.
23.02.2023 - 19:31 / perezhilton.com
There may be no way to get justice, but at least Rita Curran‘s family can get some peace and closure.
The 24-year-old schoolteacher was found beaten, sexually assaulted, and strangled on the floor of her apartment in Burlington, Vermont way back in July 1971. Unfortunately the murder stumped police at the time — and wouldn’t be solved for another five decades!
Probably the most well-known aspect of the case was its connection to Ted Bundy. Due to the time and location of the killing, Curran was for some time considered to possibly be one of the serial killer’s unknown murders. Bundy confessed to the 30 murders committed from 1974 to 1978, across seven states. However, authorities never believed he admitted all of them — the true number is thought to be significantly higher. The victims were mostly women in their late teens and early 20s — so Curran certainly fit the bill. Not to mention Bundy was born in Burlington, linking him forever to the area. Rita’s sister even wrote to the killer asking if he was responsible for Rita’s death, but the FBI replied, saying he refused to confirm or deny responsibility.
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Eventually Bundy was ruled out as a suspect. But that didn’t get police any closer to finding the real killer. But four decades after Rita was killed, a new technology was employed in the cold case…
Burlington Police Detective Lieutenant James Trieb broke down the long story for reporters at a press conference on Tuesday, per the Burlington Free Press. The key? There was a cigarette butt found by the body, lying next to Rita’s arm. But it didn’t seem to be an old one, fallen out of an ashtray. It was from the moment of her death! Trieb
A judge has blasted the police after it took over two years for a rapist to be brought to court and jailed. Meynard Murambakanda, 32, raped a vulnerable woman twice back in May 2020.
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