BOSTON -- An Acushnet man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a woman 21 years ago.
Bristol District Attorney Sam Sutter said 44-year-old Robert Roy was taken into custody without incident.
He'll be arraigned Wednesday on murder charges in New Bedford District Court.
Prosecutors said Marni Roy, who was 19 at the time, went missing on March 4, 1986.
Her body was found four years later by recreational divers in a privately owned quarry in Dartmouth.
The district attorney said additional details on the 21-year homicide investigation will be discussed following Roy's arraignment.
By Brian Fraga
Standard-Times staff writer
October 09, 2007 5:05 PM
NEW BEDFORD — District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter today announced the arrest of 44-year-old Robert Roy for the previously unsolved 1986 murder of his wife, Marni Larkin Roy.
Mrs. Roy was 19 when she disappeared on March 4, 1986, while walking her dog in Acushnet. Her skeletal remains were discovered four years later, in April 1990, by recreational divers in a privately owned quarry on State Road in Dartmouth. The remains were tied and weighted down by cinder blocks, according to The Standard-Times archives.
Mr. Roy, of 5 Nye Ave., Acushnet, was arrested this afternoon without incident. He will be arraigned tomorrow in New Bedford District Court on a charge of murder.
Mr. Roy was the last person known to have seen his estranged wife alive. According to the newspaper’s archives, police interviewed him at the time she disappeared.
Details of the 21-year-old case will be revealed during tomorrow’s arraignment. District Attorney Sutter said he will comment on the investigation after Mr. Roy’s arraignment.
The investigation was coordinated by First Assistant District Attorney William McCauley, along with Assistant District Attorney Pat Bomberg, and included investigators from the state police unit assigned to the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office, the Acushnet Police Department and the Dartmouth Police Department.
For years, police investigators believed they knew who killed Mrs. Roy. In 1990, then-Bristol County District Attorney Ronald Pina said investigators had targeted a suspect and intended to charge him. However, no one was charged until this week.
According to The Standard-Times archives, Mr. Roy moved to Florida shortly after his wife’s disappearance. In 1990, he was indicted by a grand jury in Massachusetts on a 1986 case in which he was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and two counts of assault and battery on a police officer.
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