CAMBRIDGE, MA — Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan announced that a man has been indicted in two long-unsolved murders Tuesday.
Kevin Lino, 38, has been formerly charged with two counts of first-degree murder. He is being accused of killing Douglas Leon Clarke and Gary A. Melanson in 2012 and 2010 respectively.
Clarke, 30, was originally believed to have died from a heroin overdose near the Charles River in Cambridge. Police received a call about an unconscious man on Memorial Drive in August 2012. Clarke was reportedly homeless at the time of his death and was believed to hang around in the area of Harvard Square. However, Ryan said that Lino purposefully gave Clarke a lethal dose of the drug.
Melanson was found dead in Lowell on Nov. 29, 2010 under the Rogers Street Bridge. His cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma.
According to Ryan, Lino was also homeless and known to reside in the areas of both the murders at the times they occurred. Lino reportedly killed Clarke to punish him for his drug use, while he murdered Melanson with a metal baseball bat for lighting fires to keep warm after Lino told him not to.
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