Jurors deliberating in 2nd trial for 1988 killing of 11-year-old [Video]

Jurors are deliberating in the retrial of a former Massachusetts corrections officer who is accused in connection with a 1988 stabbing that was a cold case for more than three decades.Marvin “Skip” McClendon Jr. was arrested at his home in Alabama in April 2022 and charged with first-degree murder in connection with the deadly stabbing of Melissa Ann Tremblay of Salem, New Hampshire.Tremblay’s body was found at the old Boston & Maine Railway Yard on Sept. 12, 1988.The sixth grader had been with her mother at the LaSalle Social Club in Lawrence, a block from the rail yard. She wandered out and was never seen alive again.Prosecutors allege that McClendon knew details about the crime that were never made public, but his defense argued that DNA evidence is not conclusive to McClendon. The jury failed to reach a verdict in his first murder trial last year. His second trial began …