Crime & Safety
McCabe Family Continues Fight for Justice in Lowell Court
The McCabe family's attorney seeks documents from the investigation as part of a wrongful death lawsuit.
Family members of John McCabe, who was killed in 1969 but whose case was not solved until recently, were expected to be in court on Tuesday asking the District Attorney's Office and State Police to provide them with documents involved in the murder, according to a report in the Lowell Sun.
The request comes as a part of the family's $10 million wrongful death lawsuit against the men who are accused of killing McCabe.
John McCabe was found dead in 1969 and the case went unsolved until 2011. That is when Edward Alan Brown admitted to the murder and claimed that he and friends Walter Shelley and Michael Ferreira, teenagers at the time, kidnapped McCabe following a dance at the Knights of Columbus Hall on September 26, 1969.
According to the Lowell Sun report, the family's attorney previously had a request for the documents denied. He is arguing that because the case has been solved, the documents should be make public.
Click here to read the Lowell Sun report on Tuesday's scheduled court appearance in its entirety.
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