Donald Mars is seen right here in his 2022 arraignment through Zoom for the 1966 homicide of Betty Lou Zukowski.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A virtually 58-year-old murder investigation could lastly come to a detailed in a Springfield courtroom on Thursday morning. That’s the place convicted intercourse offender Donald Mars is anticipated to vary his plea to responsible within the 1966 homicide of 10-year-old Betty Lou Zukowski.
Zukowski was final seen alive leaving her residence on Entrance Avenue in Chicopee on the night of Might 26, 1966. Zukowski had left residence after telling her mom she had acquired a name from one among her pals. 4 days later, Zukowski’s physique was found close to the Westfield River in West Springfield.
For many years, the case remained an unsolved thriller. Mars was first linked to the homicide in 1997, when West Springfield police acquired tips on him nonetheless, no arrests have been made at the moment. The investigation ramped up once more lately, and Mars, who was residing within the japanese Massachusetts city of Bedford, was arrested in November of 2022 on the age of 73.
He pleaded not responsible to Zukowski’s homicide and has been ordered held with out the fitting to bail since.
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