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Danny's Murder Investigation

Former Western Mass Priest Dies From COVID-19 On Day He Was To Be Charged For Murder, DA Says Former Western Mass Priest Dies From COVID-19 On Day He Was To Be Charged For Murder, DA Says
Former Western Mass Priest Dies From Covid-19 On Day He Was To Be Charged For Murder, DA Says A former Western Mass Catholic priest who was about to be charged with the 1972 murder of a 13-year-old boy died from COVID-19 on the day he was to be charged. Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said that the case against Richard Lavigne in the murder of Danny Croteau, had officially been closed. Gulluni said during a news conference on Monday, May 23 that the former priest and child molester was the only person to ever be publicly named as a suspect, though he died before he could be charged. The seventh-grader’s body was found face down in the Chicopee River on April 15, 1972. An…