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[Music] can't [Music] a beautiful and beloved young woman is brutally murdered just yards from her
own home her battered body left behind a building like discarded rubbish surely only a sadistic
experience killer could assault and strangle this bubbly popular teen in the middle of a dense City and Retreat
undetected into the night or could the killer be someone closer to her someone whom the young victim loved in trusted
the following is a blog post from Katherine Kerman I vividly recall this day years ago when I was taking the
train home from work not knowing what to expect when when I got there but scared
out of my wits somehow a nun was beside me on the train and reached out to me and helped
me to pray I don't know what I was praying for I just know she may have saved me from losing my mind I recall
every second of that day my Christine also saved me from losing my mind she was my strength when I walked through
the door to my home and her aunt told me indana was dead I did not know what to do I did not know anything I felt like I
was not even present losing my daughter and learning how she was murdered was too difficult to believe or understand I
could not process it at the time as the day went on Deanna's Aunt Kathleen came over and I knew she could
identify with me I found strength from her thank you Kathy in case you never knew it that is true it was when my
brother came that I knew I was horrified he's a Vietnam veteran and I will never
forget talking with him and feeling literally like the floor under my feet was falling and I was falling with it
his presence also helped to save me from losing my mind I am so thankful to all the people who came to my house to be
there for me and for my family now here it is all of these years years later you
know how I feel I am going to solve this murder I'm going to do it soon the person who murdered my daughter Deanna
also severely damaged my family in ways that I cannot explain he did not destroy
me but he came close today I am a force to be reckoned with I believe I can get him and get him without violence if he
is lucky enough for that not to happen I saved him once I won't do it again I just felt I would share these thoughts
today I hope that every member of this group knows how grateful I am for their love and kindness and continuous Support
over the years there are a few people who lack compassion and have been unkind and bottom line undignified and
disgusting but that is on them shame on them I will end it like this I have my grief and my heartbreak tucked away in a
safe place in my heart I have more strength than you can imagine I am so thankful for your kindness there will be
Justice for Deanna kriman I promise this is true crime garage and this is the case of Deanna
[Music] kman [Music] [Music] Deanna Jean kman was born on March 26th 1978 in 1995 she lived in Somerville
Massachusetts with her mom Catherine her stepfather Michael and her brothers and
sister her biological father Albert Rogers lived in New Hampshire now the state border is not far from Somerville
Somerville is a Blue Collar city northwest of Boston with a population of about 81,000 people Diana was born in the
Somerville area but the family moved to California for a short period of time returning when she was 9 years old they
moved into a house on jacqu Street in the winter Hill Neighborhood which Catherine describes as lower
middle class but I think that we should clarify something when we hear Katherine
say lower middle class it's my understanding captain that this is kind of a high cost of living area there's a
lot of people so the houses are in high demand and it's rather expensive area to
live right some people may recall longtime listeners of this show our trail of blood episodes this is episode
number 416 and 417 that we did back in August of 2020 with the guilty party being Edward O'Brien for the murder of
Janet Downing today's case takes place in the same area Somerville Massachusetts and the same year
1995 Deana was close with her sister Christine who was just 17 months older than her they shared a room and bickered
over clothing their younger brothers were Mark 11 years younger and Albert four years younger Dianna was a junior
at Somerville high school she was to a certain extent a normal teenager she hung out with her friends who recall her
laughing all the time she loved to dance and go to the local arcade she stole cigarettes and drank beer behind the
dumpster that's my favorite place to drink beer C it's my kind of girl in one episode her friends recount with smiles
Deanna and her friend cut school one day and went to Dunkin Donuts Deanna's stepfather walks into the Dunkin Donuts
to discover her his stepdaughter cutting school and he collected her and drove her back to school after buying his
coffee Deana was also training to be a cashier at the Star Market this is around the corner from her home where
she had been working for a couple of months she she babysat on the side for extra money but she also gave back to
the community volunteering at the local cable channel Somerville cable access television and working with third
graders at a local school as part of the early childhood development program that
she was enrolled in at shs her plan was to go into teaching now unlike most teens her age Deanna valued her family
spending time with her disabled grandma mother and goofing around with her siblings she loved cats Pizza the color
purple and she hated being short I have here that she was listed at 5' 2 in tall
or 5'2 in short as D may say on the day that she died Deanna wrote out a list of
her life goals this is one of those weird things that you come across in some of these cases these weird stories
where on the same day that she was killed she's writing a list of life goals this was part of a school
assignment her goals as she listed that day were to graduate high school find a job that she enjoyed have a dark green
convertible Mustang have a family a happy family and live a long and healthy life well you also wonder if she wanted
to go into education if she was planning on going to college on the afternoon of
Wednesday August 29th 1995 this is just 3 days before deana's 17th birthday she and her mom found
themselves on the same public bus di was returning to her neighborhood after shopping with friends after school and
Catherine was coming home from her job in Boston Dianna got off the bus and went to her boyfriend Tommy's House
Deanna had been dating Tommy for about 2 years in the years past the two would meet up to do their homework in the
kitchens at one of their homes as they liveed not too far apart Di's Mother Catherine tells us that Tommy was always
polite and quiet when the teens were at her home but this school year Tommy had already graduated from Somerville high
school he's 19 years old in 1995 so he's older than Deanna now Dianna's curfew was 1 p.m. on school
nights on this night she called home and said she would be late she was going to
stay and watch some TV with her boyfriend right Catherine said okay come home after this show's over that you're
watching Catherine says that she fell asleep on the couch around midnight when she woke up she discovered that Dianna
was not home so she called the pager that she had gotten for Deanna for her 17th birthday she had just gave her this
pager a few days earlier but Deanna did not return the page yeah every time I hear the the word pager it's very
nostalgic and a bit silly like when I it's one of those items that seemed very important in the mid 90s it seemed very
cool but it's like I've completely forgotten that they even existed until I till I read some of these old stories
well like you said it's so pointless it's so pointless that one day I got like I don't know five or six pages in a
row and all I could think was so nice that you're telling me to call you but there's no way for me to call you this
item is ridiculous and I rolled it rolled down my window and threw the pager out the window yeah I had one and
I think I paid for a full year's plan and used it for about 30 or 40 days and never used the thing again now Catherine
says that when she woke up she tries to page her daughter Deanna never returns the call she says that she just assumed
that Deana may have stayed over at Tommy's house this is something that would not be the first time that she had
stayed there right so she was planning on you know giving Deanna the what for when she got home you know she didn't
call and ask if she could stay she just called and said she would be late well like look we we know her mother fell
asleep on the couch it's possible sometimes teenagers are watching a movie and they end up falling asleep so on
Thursday March 30th this is when Katherine got up to get ready for her day she discovers that Dianna's not home
and she says that around 7 a.m. she called over to Tommy's house and said to Tommy hey put Deanna on the phone Tommy
says she's not here she went home last night now Catherine had to leave to go to work her husband Michael deana's
stepfather called Somerville High School remember this was a school night to make
sure that Deanna was at school right assuming maybe she just went to school that morning well at this point you're
not getting any calls back from your pages you just talked to her boyfriend he said look she went home they're going
there's no sign that she ever came home so at this point you're not worried about scolding her or or grounding her
you're just you want to make sure she's okay so you're calling where she supposed to be Somerville High School
turns out she's not at school either later that day Michael called Catherine at work and said you better come home
this is her her father her stepfather yeah so around 8:00 a.m. that morning two little girls who oddly enough Deanna
occasionally Babys sat they're walking to their Elementary School they take this short cut and they cut behind a
senior citizen housing complex this is on jacqu Street there they find lying near a
chain link fence on the cold ground their Babysitter's Dead Body Deanna was lying on her back and she's not only
dead but she's partially nude yeah this is awful I and just think what these little girls minds are going through now
the spokesperson for the middle sex DA's office said that Deanna died from manual
strangulation someone killed her by putting their hands around her throat and choking her to death it was also
determined that she had been sexually assaulted although how that determination was made has never been
made public right but we have a time frame here I mean we know that she called saying that she'd be home by
midnight so now we have to talk to the boyfriend figure out what time she left but her body's found at 8:00 a.m. so we
have roughly a 8 hour time period well and one thing that we do not have that I really wish that we have here because I
think this would really help to hone in on the best suspect available right and that would be the
determination or you know police can figure out detectives can often figure out usually quite easily if in fact our
victim was killed where she was found right was this the murder scene or was it just a dump job was she killed
elsewhere and placed here that's something they've never stated publicly that I could find and I would love to
know that information well again this is less than a block from her home a couple
questions I'd have for the boyfriend's family is was there some argument that night and if she was heading home what
how would she be heading home mhm is she being dropped off by her boyfriend or is
she walking home uh do you have any clear recollection of that well her murder of course was incredibly shocking
to the city of Somerville this was a nice girl she's hardworking she's fun everybody that knew her loved her her
body was dump very close to her home as you pointed out in her own neighborhood where she should be safe this is a safe
area now to say that people were devastated is really an understatement here in this case over 1,000 people
attended Deanna's funeral her friends blasted Billy Joel's Only the Good Die Young from their cars at the funeral
procession that's a great song which numbered over 150 Vehicles now in our research for
this case we spoke at at length with Katherine KREM and deana's mother who is still pushing for her daughter's case to
be solved after 25 years some of the information Katherine gave us we cannot share with
you because it is being held back by investigators in hopes of a successful prosecution one day but in the interest
of lighting a fire under prosecutors or perhaps even maybe the perpetrator themselves we're going to share a sign
significant amount of information about the case and the prime suspect after Deanna was found police scrambled to
hunt down the killer of this vibrant young girl they processed the scene questioned her friends canvased the
neighborhood they did all the usual things in attempt to resolve this baffling and brutal murder on April 5th
police released a composite sketch of a man quote seen near the place where the body was found
this man was being sought as a potential witness no information was forthcoming the man in the sketch was
described as 40 to 45 years old 5'9 to 5' 11 in tall 1065 lbs this is really kind of weird
and maybe a little unique here Captain because Catherine told us that later she was told that the person who described
this man to police made the whole thing up this was a rather misguided effort to
jumpstart the investigation and maybe flush out some suspects so this eyewitness just
said I I think I saw somebody that looked like this but they just made the whole damn thing up that's correct that
that seems completely irresponsible it's very irresponsible but I think what this
person was attempting to do again a misguided attempt in my opinion what I believe they were
attempting to do was put the heat on the actual suspect making it sound like there was a witness there that could
place the suspect there with the victim but it sounds like this eyewitness had a
suspect in their own mind could be I have no idea but what they were stating was with the description of this man
that this was a potential witness not necessarily a suspect composite right now as time passed a week after the
murder no arrest have been made and the County DA's office which has jurisdiction over criminal matters in
this area said publicly that they did not have a suspect but they were looking at a few people the Somerville mayor uh
at the time confirmed that there were three Persons of Interest in Indiana's murder being looked at by the Somerville
PD well the first has to be her boyfriend that's where she was at the night before he's the last person that
we think she was seen with so obviously he's on the suspect list that's correct Captain the three people that they are
going to be looking at and who are announced by the mayor at the time were in fact one the boyfriend two a first
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particular order let's go through these three suspects suspect number one we will call him Charlie the firefighter
mhm so one week after Deanna's murder a story ran in the Boston Globe saying that investigators questioned a member
of the Somerville Fire Department in deana's death according to that paper the firefighter comes from one of the
city's politically influential families the article cited Victor Pike Deanna's Uncle who told the media that de's
friends from school told the family that one of the firemen at the central firehouse on Broadway had recently
expressed an interest in Deana Deana and her friends would walk by the firehouse
on the their way to and from school right one source told the globe that the firemen had been questioned at least
twice by the police department and do we know how old this fireman is well we're
going to get into that and that's going to add to the mystery a little bit and probably the suspicions surrounding this
man now Catherine her mother told us that she later found out some more information on this firefighter he was
someone well known to her as he had been a classmate of hers that's right the firefighter was about the same age as
Deanna's mother yeah find some of your own age you creep bag well so he's about twice the age of Deanna but he was
someone that somehow he struck up a friendship with Deanna regularly talking with her as she passed by the firehouse
it's called grooming now when Deanna told him that she was practicing driving to get her driver's license right he
offered to take her out driving in his car to teach her how to drive it is not known how many times this happened or
how many times they may have hung out but on one of these so-called driving lessons Deanna's little brother Mark he
tagged along he's sitting in the back seat he later tells his mother that he saw Deanna in this firefighter kissing
at some point this was in the months before she was killed Catherine of course was horrified when she found this
out and believes that this man behaved completely inappropriately but Catherine also believes that he has been for the
most part ruled out by investigators right so he's not he doesn't seem to be high up on the list of suspects well
look again like I said find somebody your own age she's 17 years old she might think she's an adult but at that
age they don't it's hard for for a kid to you know whatever knowledge or sense to understand that that this individual
is praying on them when you're when you're interested in a girl that young when you're that old that you're
becoming a predator at that point yeah and as a taxpayer I would say do your damn job quit trying to pick up young
girls yeah play with your own godamn hoes on your own goddamn time get back to work sir all right suspect number two
we'll call him the creepy rapist Guy this is a man who was considered a possible suspect this is a local
Somerville man who liked to be friend pretty teenage girls drive them around in his neighborhood buying them booze
and cigarettes and trying to get them up to his apartment I found one person online who posted
the following saying that authorities were looking for anyone who had information on this guy and the post
says Antonio D is what this guy's name is AKA Tony or AKA Vinnie no shoes all right since this guy's a
proven [ __ ] bag we will use his real name this is Antonio just's call him uh Tony no shoes I mean that's that's it's
Vinnie noo he no shoes that's degrading enough well since this guy is a proven [ __ ] bag we will use his real name this
is Antonio dealto he went to prison for rape in 1995 the story on him is this many
people mostly females had some contact with this guy he liked to cruise around Somerville and offer young girls rides
right he would then coax them to his apartment where he would often times ask girls who to take off their shoes and
jump up and down H he was known to cruise the winter hill Somerville area and Assembly Square Mall areas amongst
others so the no shoes Vinnie no shoes comes from the the weird idea that he's asking these young
girls to take off their shoes I've never um I I've never really understood the foot fetish thing well police were
desperate for anyone to come forward who had information on this guy specifically
so here's their plea to the public and persons in deana's neighborhood and school do any of you know any contact
Deanna may have had with this man please don't be afraid to come forward we are running out of time every bit of
information helps this man is an extremely dangerous sex offender he is due to be released from prison in
September of 2007 he is has been serving time for sexual assault and attempted murder
since the summer of 1995 so he was active and violent in the same year that Deanna was murdered yeah
and we know that Deanna was sexually assaulted and she was murdered this guy was charged and and put away because he
raped and attempted murder so we know that this guy he's a he's a [ __ ] but we also know that he's capable of crimes
like like this and police specified that this man Antonio is from Brazil although
many in the neighborhood thought that he was Italian but he's in the system so they should have his DNA they should be
able to test it against the DNA found at the crime scene possibly but then again
you got to keep in mind they weren't always collecting offenders DNA different states started up those
programs at different times I know here in Ohio that we've only been doing that for a decade maybe two at the very most
so depending on when they started that up in Massachusetts he may not be in the system what they were afraid of is that
when they're going to let this guy out of prison in September of 2007 they're saying we're running out of time because
they think this dude if he's guilty of other crimes particularly murder that he might just flee back to his Original
Country right the media reported that this suspect was imprison in Massachusetts correctional institute uh
although they I wasn't able to find out much about this guy although I did locate some sources that confir
confirmed his 1995 conviction and the scheduled release in 2007 right Katherine deana's
mother told us that this guy was a known sex offender he's a creep he prayed on teen girls although the woman that he
eventually went to prison for raping was older we should point that out again we
don't know whether this guy was officially cleared in Deanna's case but he was looked at and they were asking
for law enforcement was asking for more information about this guy specifically if anybody knew Deanna had ever been in
contact with this guy well and even though his victim was older that I don't think that proves anything we have
knowledge of him taking younger girls back to his apartment now suspect number three is the boyfriend of course we've
mentioned him several times before in this story we're calling him Tommy the boyfriend yeah or AKA Tommy two shoes
now Savvy True Crime devoted listeners will notice by now that we have thus far largely avoided discussing this third
suspect in the case right he is as you pointed out Captain believed to be the last man to see Deanna alive boy the
first man on investigators list or boy of course anyone's going to look at Tommy the boyfriend in this case because
he's the boyfriend but again because he is saying he's the last person to have seen her that night and as we know
Deanna was over at his house somewhat late we just cannot determine what time she supposedly left on that Wednesday
night the couple's normal routine this is where things get really suspicious and look really bad for this
guy Tommy TWU their normal routine when Deanna was over at his house is that after they were done hanging out he
would walk her all of the way to her home right and often they would sit on the front porch and hang out you know
extend their visit if you will on the front porch after he walked her home so what is he claiming happened that night
well I want to point out that his home is 6 miles from her residence not far not far and again normal routine was for
Tommy to walk Deanna home now Tommy says on that night on March 29th he walked her half of the way home the
boy's getting lazy that he parted ways at the heath in bond streets intersection uhhuh Deanna was found at
125 jock Street per the boston.com her body was found so close to that spot it cannot be described in miles but in feet
about 400 feet from where he says that he walked her to that night her body is found at 8:00 a.m. the next
morning very suspicious very weird very bizarre again that's where you want the information do detectives believe she
was killed in the spot that she was found but does this uh Tommy two shoes does he have uh any violent history I
mean they dated you said for two years is there would have to be some kind of Rumblings of uh violence against her or
maybe verbal abuse or something well we'll get into some of that but there doesn't seem to be really any of that
again we have Deanna's mother saying that she knew this kid and knew him well and there was no violence in their
relationship all it takes is once though right so well of course everyone finds it
incredibly suspicious that on the night that she happened to be killed it's it's
the one time that he didn't walk her all the way to her house does he have a reason yes he says that he and his good
friend his best friend his name will will will say is Jason Jason jockstrap and Tommy twoo
that the two of them ordered some food a food delivery that he wanted to get back
to accept the food delivery that he was he had a limited amount of time to walk her home now now now his his friend
didn't walk with them no that's correct and this friend Jason lived very close to Tommy's house this is the weird part
so he has an alibi right he has his friend Jason who says yes that's what happened he shows up at my house we
ordered some food and by the way they even have the receipt to show that to investigators look you probably don't
know the details on which direction the friend lived in in but you're you're talking what do you say 400 ft from
where he left her you'd think if this guy lived in the vicinity and he's waiting for his friend to show up that
he would have heard some Rumblings well no the friend lived near Tommy's house right so 6 miles away is
Deanna's home the friend Jason his home backed up to the back of Tommy's house right so he still close
still a little more than a quarter mile that's not that far you think he'd hear something and also well I don't think
she was killed there is what I think went went down I think that this is a bit of a
manufactured uh Alibi but but we can get into to that I want to go through what Katherine her mother
says cuz she believes that maybe Dianna was going to break up with Tommy and maybe even break up with him that night
so she could start dating the Old firefighter old crusty yeah that could be who knows but she says that at the
time you know before Deanna was killed she didn't see any of this but later seemed to be able to piece this
together she thought that she later learned that Tommy seemed to be very possessive of her daughter MH this is
because Catherine found a bunch of letters that Tommy wrote to Deanna which she says shows some very strong
indicators of this possessive Behavior almost to the point which she says she called it being obsessive now after
Deana died Tommy's best friend Jason told Catherine that anytime Deanna left the room even to just go to the bathroom
or to get a drink right Tommy would really kind of give it to her you know asking her where she was going really
kind of overbearing stuff like ponytail Derek again there were no signs of violence in this relationship although
there was one time that Catherine later recalled when Tommy could not find Deanna that he showed up at her
home and he's he's like clutching the doorway you know and very angrily asking and
demanding to know where Dena Deana was well yeah hold on a second let's let's not throw this guy completely under the
bus because if there's rumors or some Rumblings that she is doing some driving lessons with this older firefighter so
who knows what kind of stories that she was telling him so he might have heard oh well I just saw your girlfriend in a
car with a older man you know and and she's not answering her pager or something I I could see why that would
be upsetting to a 19-year-old boy well and I mean you got to keep in mind they were together for about 2 years
so that that situation does not have to go along with the firefighter situation no it doesn't I'm just saying that we we
we do have uh people saying that she was taking these driving lessons and making
out with this older firefighter during the time that they were dating right and that's what one thing that Catherine
points out out that that either she believes either Deanna was going to break up with Tommy that
night or maybe they had a fight that night and it could really be about anything but possibly about the
firefighter situation question for you uh what time does Tommy twoo call his buddy to set up this hey after I drop
off my girlfriend and then I'll hang out at your house that's some information that I do not have um the detectives
would have that information as again he did provide a receipt for this food delivery so they would have that time
and and know that timeline I do not have that information this seems pretty late
for food delivery yeah I it's a busy area I would imagine you could get food delivered at 11: 12:00 again but also
school night so it's not like the weekend so less things were probably open it's also in the '90s just less
yeah but I me open in general you always talk about the '90s like it's a hundred
years ago I you get I remember getting it's quite a while ago it was right it's 25 years ago 26 years ago I can remember
getting food delivered at 11 12:00 on a on a week night but Catherine goes on to
say that Deanna would have had multiple reasons she believes for breaking up with Tommy
that they you know how it's kind of young love right you grow up and you kind of grow apart and they didn't
really share the same circle of friends Deanna was getting older and Tommy was they had different personalities
Katherine describes Deanna as happy gol lucky uh while Tommy is described as a bit of a black cloud you know if they
were in a group situation he wouldn't get involved he would kind of sit off to himself well and also when you have a a
relationship where one is in high school and one is not normally the one that's not in high school doesn't want to do
the high school stuff homecoming I don't want to go to that prom I don't want to
go to that I'm too cool for that I'm too old for that I've been there done that and what is a girl in high school want
to what does she want to do she wants to go to all those events and be around her
friends in the weeks and the months after the murder Tommy behaved somewhat strangely um for someone who professed
to love Deanna he didn't seem to act that way after her death he did attend the funeral he was quite attentive to
Catherine at the funeral but he did not participate in any of the memorials or vigils dedicated to Deanna when
Catherine went over to try to talk to him this would be about 3 weeks after Deanna's Murder She wanted to get some
clear-cut answers to some questions she had about what happened that night from Tommy right she says that he acted
terrified when Katherine talked about the case uh asking him questions and she told him that night that she thought
that the case would be solved very soon and he seemed to be very terrified at this statement right it's almost like a
she hit a nerve he's been somewhat Cooperative with the police okay so he did lawyer up I don't not going to fault
anyone for getting an attorney it's the responsible thing to do right but he very quickly put him himself in a
situation where he's not talking to police or detectives unless his attorney is there he's got the the lawyer wall
between law enforcement and himself he has refused to take a lie detector test which again yeah I'm not going to
fault anybody for that I don't know that I would ever agree to take one well what
we look what we've said about lie detector test is there's normally three results that you passed or you're
deceptive or it's inconclusive so two of the three results are negative well and
if you're innocent there's really no upside to to the test at all for you so this is
the weird thing though he and Jason both pled the fifth at a grand jury inquiry into the murder so they
both refuse to answer questions on the grounds that they might incriminate themselves right they said that shady is
they said this had to do with they knew a smalltime drug dealer and that they were
that the questions would have led to information about that situation right and they didn't want to incriminate
themselves in Breaking the Law in that manner that it didn't have anything to do with the murder but again one thing
that I always tell people and that I always point to especially in in this type of case where look the mayor says
we got three suspects that we're looking at Tommy he looks better than the other
two in my opinion the creepy rapist guy yeah we know him to be violent and he's he's a despicable human being but we
don't even know if there was any contact between the two of them if they did they
even know each other at all yeah yeah or I mean I guess he could have tried to pick her up that night but still again
with Tommy we we know that they knew each other well we know that the spouse is usually uh a good suspect and two
he's he's already he has two shoes known to have been with the victim a short period of time before her
murder yeah and then the alteration of the stories I mean not that he is changing it but it's kind of strange
that you didn't walk her home that night you normally walk her home it wasn't even like it was that much further along
and then they find her body like you said 400 ft from from where he claims they parted and then
this weird hangout and look look look I know the90s was not a hundred years ago not that odd for a 19-year-old to be
going to hang out with his buddy I also question what is his buddy doing uh how old was his buddy was his buddy living
with parents to those parents work regular shifts it's pretty late to be look if I if I had a 19-year-old kid and
his buddy stopped by on a school night a night that I had to work after midnight
and the ordered food to me that's a little late too late maybe I'm an old kudan but I'm just
saying I think that's a little too late it's Fourth meal now two months after Deanna was killed Tommy's own mother was
granted a restraining order against her son this is per the Boston Globe Tommy's
mom sought protection in court from her son Tommy aged 19 at that time who was one of about 100 people who were
questioned by police investigating Dianna's murder a family friend told the reporter that the restraining order was
not related to Deanna's case she would say only that Tommy had threatened his mom who he was living with at the time
no hold on it's it's related in the sense that it shows his character this guy is going to be abusive towards women
his own mother so it's not that far of a cry to think that this guy would be abusive towards his own girlfriend yes
so this is again per the article quote things had been going on in the house that did not make her very comfortable
meaning the mother he meaning Tommy has a pretty bad temper but he never hurt her the problems had been exacerbated by
his mood swings following his girlfriend's killing according to the article his mother who had some health
issues was eager for Tommy to get the help she believed that he needed so Tommy moved out of the house and this is
when he moves in with his friend Jason before going on to live at another place uh with his uncle which is in another
part of the state of Massachusetts based on all of these behaviors and actions plus additional
information that she was told by authorities and confidence Katherine kreman has stated overtly that although
she initially didn't want to believe it she now thinks that Tommy was responsible for what happened to Deanna
she believes that the authorities came to this same conclusion but they've not been able to
get enough evidence to put forth charges or theyve just not it wouldn't be that hard to get his DNA not done a great job
on the investigation I mean she could even hire a a pi to get a sample of his DNA the problem is he's the boyfriend
though because if if it's sexual assault that's why I pointed out that I don't know how they arrived at that
determination right it would be important to the case to know more about that aspect of the crime as well as the
crime scene itself if she was believed to have been killed in that location or at that location because with the sexual
assault if you find someone else's DNA in regards to the sexual assault MH that gives you a suspect a murder
suspect if you find Tommy's DNA well we know that they were boyfriend girlfriend they had a
long-term relationship she was at his house that night it can be explained away yeah but he he doesn't have to be
the killer to be you know he doesn't have to be a rapist and a killer in her situ in this situation he could simply
be the boyfriend and the killer again if I'm if I'm the mother I'm the father if I'm a f family friend or or
just a friend I'm hiring a private investigator I'm getting his DNA I'm having it tested or getting it at least
to police to say look here's his DNA because what police have is the records of actually talking to Tommy and maybe
Tommy said hey we uh yeah we made out and stuff but no no we didn't have sex that night we don't know what he has
answered uh in the interviews with police now unfortunately after Deanna's murder Katherine's marriage to Michael
kreman fell apart you know we've seen this time and time again in these cases where bereaved parents are dealing with
their grief in different ways Katherine descended into alcoholism she lost her job at the accounting department she
lost her house and she temporarily lost custody of two of her three other kids uh two of them were minors at this time
it took years for her to pull herself back together de's sister Christine had to step in and act as a parental figure
as a parental figure to her two little brothers for some time she said to boston.com quote my mother and father
both fell apart I had to be the mother to my two brothers at 18 years old want to applaud her effort and her love
towards her family she said that it it she said that it wasn't Deanna dying it was like my whole family pretty much
died devastated by the loss of Deanna and the disintegration of the family Michael kreman died in
2008 at the age of just 58 wow and it stated quote he truly died a Broken Man over the loss of Deanna it destroyed him
and tragically Deanna's Sister Christine died at the age of 40 in 2017 without ever seeing her sister's case solved
yeah again this is a tough one I mean you think that again with the three suspects it's hard to know where the the
local creep is but look if this guy is a rapist and attempted murderer it's probably just
going to get worse and worse for him as far as the crimes and he might possibly be back in jail right now for all we
know is it worse for parents of a Murder Ed child to feel that nothing is happening in the investigation that no
one is really working on the case or is it worse if parents are continually told
that there is hope that there is movement on the case only to have their hopes dashed over and over again because
the latter is what has happened for Katherine kreman authorities keep dangling a resolution and then it fails
to to materialize yeah and and we've seen that like within the deli murders it seems
like they keep saying hey we're we're one piece away well you've been saying that for four years so maybe maybe
you're more than one piece away uh you know I don't know it's it's very difficult because the same way with like
missing person cases I used to fault the family for not wanting to get heavily involved but then you've seen families
that get heavily involved in a case and then they get railroaded so the more we do this the
more on a case-by Case basis the family the individual has to decide what's correct for them and it's just it's such
a tragic thing to see again I love how they describe her they don't describe her as perfect but she was perfect to
them with all her flaws she was perfect to them and to see how much this can crush a family and alter so many
people's lives it's it's it's sad and it's pathetic and it's and it's also pathetic that we live in a society where
just because you're female that puts a motive on your back for murder or rape or whatever I mean
it's pathetic I guess I guess having hope is not a bad thing if if you're going to dive into the case doing as
much research as you can uh and collecting your own evidence listening to the cops I think is important but
doing your own research and your own investigation would be important as well well I want to go through some of the
timeline of things that have taken place since the murder so on the 10th anniversary if you will
of Deanna's murder the Boston Globe article a Boston Globe article ran that said authorities said yesterday they are
closer than they have ever been to finding the person who killed Deanna the middle sex District Attorney's office
said that the new forensic technology has helped authorities make progress in the case and that investigators are
looking for specific people who they believe know what happened in the last couple of months we believe we've made
some developments on the forensic front this was said by the district attor attorney however the district attorney
declined to provide specific details right but did say we do believe that a person or people know about this murder
and may have seen this murder and we urge them to come forward this article goes on to quote Catherine and says I
believe I know who is the person responsible but I am not allowed to talk about it I don't want to hurt the
investigation so that was in 2005 but nothing happened no charges no arrest all that happened was that six different
District Attorneys have since been in office over the years and every time that a new one comes in the
investigation gets a bump gets hyped up a little bit right and then nothing ever
really happens in 2009 the new district attorney stated that the murder would be solved but law
enforcement needed Witnesses who had remained silent to come forward again nothing did the new district attorney
come forward and say it's going to take another six District Attorneys to get this thing solved well six more years
passed and in 2015 another article ran in the Boston Herald this time saying that the case is
still an open and very active investigation the district attorney at that time added that within the past 6
months let's just say there's been some advances in the case but would not comment further around that same time
boston.com contained the following information evidence is being reanalyzed using
forensic technology that didn't exist 20 years ago this according to the district
attorney this continues to be a very active investigation but the family has heard this obviously before and it's
just frustrating that that they keep being told that this is going to be solved and that they're going to get
some action here and some results and it just doesn't seem to be going anywhere well the thing is and and we know this
as as time goes on that technology gets better and th this is definitely a field
of Technology we we need smart individuals that are passionate about solving crimes to get involved in the
Sciences Behind These and we're going to start seeing hundreds of cold cases solved because of new technology and
it's just pathetic that there is there's some scumbag piece of [ __ ] out there that's been out there living a free life
while this family suffers well and I think the situation that they're really looking for here look that's what they
have to say kind of publicly hey we're we're making some movement on this case it's really heating up we're going to
solve this thing soon but notice every time they say that they are asking for witnesses to come forward right well
it's almost an excuse to get it back in the papers or on the news to say that there's we've made some movement on this
case is it really just you're just throwing that out there because you're reminding the public that this murder
happened that this young girl who had a big bright future ahead of her was killed in a very violent way and
personal way in my opinion and we need witnesses to come forward we need people to tell us that person a was not where
they say they were that night person a did not do what they said they did that night yeah it could be as simple as the
boyfriend's friend coming forward and saying hey story didn't go down the way he said it did there was some
information that came out in 2017 and I'm not going to I'm not going to go through the full
story because at first I thought this was really something here in this case it made some sense when I first started
looking at it there was information that came out that said that it was a cover up at the time that the the whole thing
was covered up by the mayor's office in 1995 that they were investigating someone that was somehow connected to
powerful people and that the mayor office may have covered it up somehow the reason
why I don't want to stay on this very long is because Deanna's family does not believe that that is in any way true at
all and I think that the thing that we can cite here is the Somerville mayor at the time publicly stated that the police
department was looking at three suspects and Deanna's mother says that the mayor at the time back in '95 has
been one of the most supportive people in this entire case supportive throughout the the years right uh over
and over again so right but to cover something up you need to be extra supportive if if she doesn't believe it
if the family doesn't believe it I don't believe it I don't know that this is any
credible information at all again the the problem with any type of cover up is a lot of these people get into positions
where they're trying to serve the community they get in those positions CU they're good people that want to make a
difference so for those people to just turn a blind eye to this 17-year-old child being murdered you have to be a
low down pile of scum to to do that I'm not saying that coverups don't happen I'm just saying that it's normally where
this whole institution is turning a blind eye or this whole organization or you know sometimes people go oh well
it's a cover up by the police department so you're telling me 20 good people are
turning a blind eye to a murder uh it normally just doesn't line up or add up it seems like Deanna's
family believes that it's generally known who killed Deanna but that the case is stalled because of a lack of
evidence or at least that's what they've been told by the district attorney now whether or not a
prosecution could be successful based on what they have or what we've seen that's
been released to the public is really just a matter of opinion you know we've seen circumstantial evidence against
Tommy the boyfriend the fact that he didn't walk her home the fact that he hasn't cooperated the fact that he was
the last person to see her that he had two but then you have to wonder what is the actual physical evidence again we
want to know more about the crime scene more about the evidence authorities are not saying what they have or what they
do not have and it has been stated however that Deanna was sexually assaulted but again it's not known how
they came to that conclusion so one thing that investigators are not talking about in
this case is DNA you know it seems to me that had they found DNA on Deana that did not
belong to Tommy the boyfriend or a family member if there was stranger DNA on her then
that would have been revealed at some point over the years well and like you said I mean you go well Tommy's her
boyfriend so of course his DNA is going to be on her touch DNA is going to be on
her but if there's nobody else's DNA on her then Bingo well and the thing too Captain why would this not be
revealed because one it would help the public it might help these witnesses that you keep asking for come forward
and if there was stranger DNA in theory that would virtually clear Tommy from any suspicion at all when we
start questioning why the cops did this and why didn't they do this or why AR why aren't they coming out with more
information that's why you say well no [ __ ] the case hasn't been solved yeah and I I really think that we're going to
start learning more from this a as time goes on and in cases that are not solved
from the80s cases that are not solv from the 90s that law enforcement now is going to say hey we need eyewitnesses to
come forward in this murder case that happened over the weekend we have to come out now with information because we
can't wait 10 years we can't wait 20 years when people move out of the area people stop talking about it you again
you said oh well the '90s man it's it's not that long ago it feels to me like a million years ago so if you have an
individual that kind of has some suspicion or maybe did see Tommy walking a little bit further with his girlfriend
that night than he claims he did well so much time has gone past you're not going
to sit around and feel guilty or bad about it you probably moved on or you probably convinced yourself that maybe
you didn't see it that way you see what I'm saying MH so as time goes on you're less likely to get a witness that is
sitting around all worried about it or somebody that maybe at first was scared that if it was Tommy two shoes that he's
going to come after them well now after 20 years maybe no contact with Tommy T shoes and they're going hey I don't feel
any threat I don't feel any reason for coming forward it's none of my business well I will I will try to put this in a
in a brighter light with a little bit of optimism here because in 2019 the district attorney announced the
launch of a new Cold Case unit so of course they're going to be looking at murders and cold cases in that area so I
think that that is a positive move especially in a case that I think is a little cold after all of these
years now Katherine her mother has been a fierce advocate for her daughter for her daughter's case not only has she
spoken publicly about the case on TV and in podcast and in articles but she's also the administrator of the justice
for Deanna kreman Facebook page and has written a blog post about the case she has organized marches demonstration
where she yells for justice through a megaphone and she has made it clear over and over again to Tommy that she
suspects him of killing her daughter she has told Tommy time and time again that
she will continue to be a pain in the ass until the case is solved and her only real hope in light of the failure
of the authorities to prosecute the case is that he may crack at some point and confess what he has done despite all the
challenges facing the kemman family they have done a remarkable job of managing to keep Deanna Spirit Alive for now over
25 years in 1997 they got a billboard erected in Somerville that advertised a reward for information in the case the
billboard is renewed annually on it appears the amount of the reward which is currently
$70,000 $7,000 and the words on the billboard say quote you know what you did to me
how much longer must I wait please help make my time in heaven restful there are
trees and benches around the city that are dedicated to Deanna the Deana kemman reward scholarship gives $500 annually
to a recipient in the child development program at shs where Deanna was enrolled in 2013
hundreds of people gathered to observe the 18th anniversary of Dianna's Murder By symbolically walking her home
marching from the intersection where Tommy says he left her to the family's home Katherine now has three
grandchildren her granddaughter's middle name is Deanna anyone with information regarding Deanna kerman's death can
contact the middle sex County District Attorney's office at 617679600 or the Somerville police
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Brief Summary

The episode discusses the unsolved murder of Deanna Kreman and the suspects involved, focusing on her boyfriend Tommy and a known sex offender.

Key points

Deanna's Tragic Murder. A beautiful young woman is brutally murdered just yards from her home.
A Mother's Vow for Justice. Years later, a mother pledges to solve her daughter's murder.
Community's Heartbreak. Over 1,000 people attended Deanna's funeral, showcasing the community's love.
Consumer Cellular's Philosophy. Consumer Cellular promotes a flexible, contract-free phone plan that prioritizes customer love.
Suspect One: Charlie the Firefighter. Investigators question a firefighter with connections to Deanna, raising suspicions about his interest in her.
Suspect Two: The Creepy Rapist Guy. A known sex offender, Antonio, is linked to the case, raising alarms as he is due for release.

Episode highlights

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I'm going to solve this murder.

A mother vows to find justice for her daughter.

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