HER KILLER, CONFESS.
♪ >> SHE WAS THE POPULAR GIRL, THE ONE EVERYONE WANTED TO BE FRIENDS WITH.
>> SHE HAD A SMI, IT WAS AN INFECTIOUS SMILE.
ANTHONY: DEANNA CREM DREAMED OF A SIMPLE LIFE.
YOU CAN TELL BY THE BOWL SHE LISTED IN A MARCH 1995 CLASS ASSIGNMENT AT SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL.
TO GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL, FIND A JOB S ENJOYED, HAVE A DARK GREEN CONVERTIBLE MUSTANG, TO HAVE A HAPPY FAMILY AND A LONG, HEALTHY LIFE.
THOS DREAMS SHATTERED THAT VERY SAME NIGHT.
DEANNA’S MOTHE SAYS HER DAUGHTER MISSED CURFEW WHILE ON A DATE WITH HER BOYFRIEND TOMMY LEBLANC.
>> WHEN I WOKE UP I PAGED HER.
DEANNA NEVER CALLED HER MOTHER BACK.
HER BOYFRIEND WALKED HER HALFWAY HOME.
DEANNA THEN WALKED AROUND THIS CORNER ONTO JAKE STREET, JU A SHORT WALK TO WORK HOME BUT SHE NEVER MADE IT THERE.
>> THE NEXT MORNING I CALLED HER BOYFRIEND.
I SAID, PUT DEANNA ON THE PHONE.
HE SAID WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
SHE’S NOT THERE.
ALL THE QUESTIONS WENT THROUGH MY HEAD.
REPORTER: THE SEARCH ENDED QUICKLY.
>> TWO CHILDREN WHO ACTUALLY DEANNA AHAD BABYSAT FOR AND THEY FOUND HER BODY.
>> CATHY FACED THE UNIMAGINABLE, AS POLICE AND INVESTIGATORS GATHERED AT HER HOME.
>> PLEASE DON’T TELL ME SHE’S DEAD.
MY WORST NIGHTMARE IS SHE GOT HIT BY A CAR.
SHE WAS MURDERED.
SHE WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED, STRANGLED TO DEATH BY BARE HANDS.
SHE HAD BONES BROKEN.
REPORTER: NEWS OF DEANNA’S MURDER ROCKED THE TIGHTKNIT COMMUNITY.
HER FRIEND TOMMY REMEMBERS HIS REACTION.
>> THEY TOLD ME THEY FOUND HER BODY AND I WAS JUST IN SHOCK.
I KEPT PICTURING HER THE LAST MOMENTS OF HER LIFE, IT STILL STICKS WITH ME TO THIS DAY.
REPORTER: HUNDREDS GATHERED FOR HER FUNERAL.
THROUGH THEIR GRIE HER FRIENDS AND FAMILY SEARCH FOR ANSWERS.
CATHY QUESTIO LEBLANC’S STORE.
SHE SAYS HE WOULD USUALLY WALKER ALL THE WAY HOME.
>> HE DID NOT DO IT THAT NIGHT.
OUT OF CHARACTER.
REPORTER: THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAYS LEBANC WAS QUESTIONED.
>> AT THIS POINT, CAN TELL YOU THAT OBVIOUSLY WE TALKED TO HIM.
REPORTER: BUT LEBLANC WAS NEVER NAMED A SUSPECT.
DEANNA’S MOTHER SAYS SUSPICIOUS OR GOLD AROUND THE SOMERVILLE FIREFIGHTER, A SKETCH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN SEEN IN THE AREA WAS RELEASED BUT CHARGES WERE NEVER FILED.
>> THERE’ NEVER BEEN A SUSPECT TO NAME THIS CASE, NOR HAVE THERE BEEN ANY ARRESTS.
REPORTER: CATHY SAYS 24 YEARS OF UNANSWERED QUESTIONS HAVE TAKEN A TOLL ON HER FAMILY.
>> HONESTLY, IT DESTROYED US.
I WISH I COULD SAY WE HAD MORE STAMINA THAN THAT.
IT’S HARD T HAVE STAMINA WHEN YOU CANNOT PUT TWO PUZZLE PIECES TOGETHER.
REPORTER: THE LACK OF CLOSURE HAUNTED HER SISTER.
HER LIFE WAS ON THE BACK BURNER.
SHE WAS INTRODUCED, THIS IS CHRISTINE, THE SISTER OF DEANNA CREMIN WHO WAS FOUND STRANGLED TO DEATH.
REPORTER: CHRISTINE FOUGHT TO BRING HER SISTER’S KILLER TO JUSTICE BUT THE BATTLE TOOK ITS TOLL.
FAMILY FRIEND JESSE.
>> SHE WAS A FIERCE FIGHTER FOR DEANNA.
CHRISTINE -- SHE WOU ALWAYS SHOW UP AT THE EVENT THAT SHE WOULD ALWAYS ADVOCATE AND FIGHT FOR HER SISTER.
WHICH SHE WOULD BE DOING TODAY SHE DID NOT HAVE AN UNTIMELY DEATH IN THE PAST YEAR.
REPORTER: DEANNA AND CHRISTINE’S FRIENDS HAVE PICKED UP THAT FI.
THEY HAVE ORGANIZED MASSES, REMEMBRANCES AND DEDICATED A SQUARE AND PLAYGROUND IN HER NAME.
>> MY MISSION FOR DEANNA IS T KEEP HER NAME OUT THERE IN A WAY THAT HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET SOME CLOSURE ON THIS SOMEDAY.
SOME SORT OF JUSTICE.
>> JUST WANT THE PERSON TO -- >> DDEANNA’S MOTHER HOPES THAT ADVANCES IN DNA WILL BE TO A BREAK IN THE CASE.
>> WE ONLY STARTED USING DNA AND MESSAGES IS 25 YEARS AGO.
FROM WHEN WE FIRST STARTED, WE HAVE COME LIKE YOURS.
SO WE ARE ALWAYS REEVALUATED OUR UNCHARGED CASES IN TERMS OF WHETHER IS -- THERE’S A NEW PROCESS WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO USE.
REPORTER: UNTIL THEN,DEANNA’S FRIENDS AND FAMILY CLING TO THE SLIM CHANCE THAT HER KILLER WILL COME CLEAN.
>> HE DID NOT JUST DESTROY ONE LIFE.
YOU ARE CONTINUING TO DESTROY MINE.
>> BE A MAN, JUST COME FORWARD, ADMIT WHAT YOU DID.
8 >> JUST A MATTER OF TIME.
SHAYNA THERE IS A $70,000 REWARD FOR ANY INFORMATION LEADING TO AN ARREST AND PROSECUTION OF DEANNA CREMIN’S MURDER.
ANTHONY: AS FOR