Authorities have indicted a suspect in a 16-year-old cold case of a woman last seen in Somerville.
Heinsky Anacreon, 38, of Malden, has been indicted for murder in the shooting death of Charline Rosemond in Somerville in 2009. Rosemond was last seen alive there on April 7, 2009, and her body was found slumped in her father’s car in a parking lot in Union Square on April 13, 2009. She had been shot.
At the time of her death, Rosemond was 23, living with her family in Everett and working at a car dealership in Brighton, said Middlesex district attorney Marian Ryan and Somerville police chief Shumeane Benford on Thursday.
Rosemond had told friends and family that she was planning to buy a used Lexus. She had withdrawn a substantial amount of cash from her bank that week to make the purchase.
Evidence developed by the Cold Case Unit of the Middlesex District Attorneys’ Office revealed that, acting together, Anacreon and his friend, Roberto Jeune, induced her to bring the cash she had withdrawn to a remote parking lot, where she was shot and killed.
Jeune, whom the victim had believed was one of her closest friends, convinced her he had a contact who could get the type of car she was looking for at a good price, the officials said. Anacreon played the part of that contact, as he had access through his workplace to the exact model of Lexus that Rosemond wanted. Together, Jeune and Anacreon used the car as bait to gain the victim’s trust, the officials said.
After the murder, Anacreon admitted to a confidant that he had provided the .44 Magnum firearm that was used to kill Rosemond and that he had disposed of the murder weapon by throwing it into a body of water. The murder weapon has never been recovered.
Roberto Jeune died of natural causes in Philadelphia on July 8.
“Charline Rosemond was a promising and hard-working young woman with her whole life ahead of her,” Ryan said. “She was taken advantage of and murdered by two men who were willing to take her life for $4,000. They killed her in cold blood. They celebrated the murder with a bottle of champagne, and they left her body in a parking lot for days, while her family frantically searched for her.”
In addition to the indictment for first-degree murder, Anacreon has been indicted for one count of attempt to willfully mislead a police officer and one count of attempt to willfully mislead an attorney – charges arising from a formal interview with investigators May 21: With his own attorney present, Anacreon said then that Jeune had taken responsibility for Rosemond alone, with Anacreon having no prior knowledge or involvement in the plan.
Evidence developed during the course of the investigation showed Anacreon lied, the officials said.
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