Case Update: An Arrest! Justice for Charline Rosemond

Justice is coming for Charline at last! News broke this week in her 16-year-old murder case. The first real hope for justice for Charline and her family. 

On Thursday, April 10, Middlesex County District Attorney Marion Ryan announced the arrest of Heinsky Anacreon, age 38, of Malden, Mass, who was indicted by a Middlesex County grand jury on charges of murder, willfully misleading a police officer and willfully misleading an attorney, charging him with first-degree murder in this cold case that has haunted Charline's family since the day she disappeared on April 7, 2009. The investigation revealed a heartbreaking betrayal - Charline was lured by so-called friends with the promise of a sweet deal on a car, only to be robbed and killed. Most disturbing perhaps is the evidence that after the murder, her killers celebrated with a bottle of Moet champagne and toasted their windfall. 

For those who've followed Crime of the Truest Kind, this case has been near to my heart. After sharing her case in a live show in 2024, and interviewing Charline's sister Rose (listen to episodes 71 and 72) last fall and advocating for this case at every opportunity, seeing this development brings joy. Nothing can bring Charline back or erase her family's 16 years of hoping and waiting for her killers to be caught. As we look toward a trial, I will continue following every development. Advocacy is key. 

After 16 years, there's finally been an arrest in the murder case of Charline Rosemond, a 23-year-old woman from Everett who was shot to death for $4,000 cash in 2009. Middlesex County District Attorney Marion Ryan has announced charges against Heinsky Anacreon, revealing that Charline was set up by someone she considered a close friend, Roberto Jude, who died before facing justice.

• Charline disappeared April 7, 2009, she was found on April 13. 
• DNA evidence on the car's door handle linked Roberto Jude to the scene
• Anacreon allegedly admitted to disposing of the murder weapon in a river
• Charline's family will be meeting on April 13th at 3pm in Union Square, Somerville – the 16th anniversary of when she was found

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Episode Transcript

Anngelle Wood (00:00):
Well, hello, my name is Anngelle Wood and this
is Crime of the Truest Kind.
Hey, everybody, I'm dropping inyour feed today with a major

(00:31):
break in an unsolved case that Ihave been talking about.
Well, every opportunity I getto talk about Charline
Rosemond's case, I have beentalking pretty much nonstop on
every episode or live show abouther case.
I have been talking pretty muchnon-stop on every episode or
live show about her case.
Those of you who are familiarwith Crime of the Truest Kind
and listen regularly, you knowthat I talked to her sister,

(00:55):
rose, and did two episodes abouther case last fall the unsolved
murder of Charline Rosemondfrom Everett, Massachusetts.
Her family's from Everett, sheworked in Brighton and she was
found in Somerville.
Quick backstory to her case,though I would like you to go

(01:19):
and listen to the episodes thatI released a few months ago, in
October of 2024, I spoke atlength with Rose, Charline's
sister, episode 71 and 72.
Please go back and listen andwe talked all about Charline and
her case how 15 years hadpassed since Charline's murder,

(01:41):
how it remained unresolved andthe impact it had on her family.
She was found in Somerville sixdays after she disappeared, on
April 13, 2009.
She was 23 years old.
She was very hardworking andshe had a number of goals that
she set for herself and Iguarantee, given the opportunity

(02:05):
, Charline would have reachedand surpassed those goals.
There were things that we knewabout Charline's case.
We knew she had $4,000 in cash.
Charline had made the plan togo look at a Lexus, a car that
she was very interested inbuying.
It was priced well, incrediblygood, and that saying, when

(02:31):
something's too good to be true,it is $4,000 for a Lexus that
evidently was worth a lot more.
That story always raised my redflags and I asked Rose Rosemond
, charlene's sister, when wespoke about her case was there
really a Lexus at all, or wasthat just merely a ploy to get

(02:56):
Charlene somewhere with a stackof cash so they could take
advantage of her cash, so theycould take advantage of her?
On Thursday April 10th,Middlesex County District
Attorney Marion Ryan, MiddlesexCounty, Massachusetts, announced
the arrest of a man who's beingcharged in Charline's murder.

(03:20):
I will share some audio from DARyan's press conference on the
afternoon of Thursday, April10th.

District Attorney Marion R (03:30):
Just a few days after the 16th
anniversary of the death ofCharline Rosemond, we today
identified and charged a personwith her murder.
Henske Anna Creon, who is 38years old, of Malden, was

(03:50):
indicted for murder for theshooting and killing of Charlene
Roseman in her father's car ina parking lot in Semmelville in
2009.
What we know about this case isthat on April 3rd of 2009,
charlene, who had been lookingfor a new car, had told friends
that she had a friend who wasgoing to connect her with the
kind of car that she wanted at agood price, went to the bank

(04:11):
you can see at the top of thatposter.
On April 3rd, she went to thebank.
She withdrew $4,100 that shewas going to use to buy that car
.
The investigation revealed that, as I said, she had intended to
buy that car.
The investigation revealed that, as I said, she had intended to
buy a used black Lexus and partof what she had told her
friends was that, in order toget the good deal she

(04:34):
anticipated getting on the car,she would have to pay cash.
That's why she had made thatlarge cash withdrawal.
There was no cash found withher at the time her body was
found, suggesting that themotive was robbery.
Investigators learned that thevictim had been in negotiation
with someone who she consideredone of her closest friends an

(04:55):
individual named Roberto June,who is now deceased, and a third
party later identified as MrAnticrion to make the purchase
of that car.
In interviews with the policein the ensuing days after her
disappearance, both June andAnticrion denied that they had
been involved in her death.
A search warrant was executedat Mr June's residence and it

(05:19):
did not recover a firearm, butit did recover two hard cases
used to store firearms a pair oflatex gloves.
Also recovered during thatexecution of that search warrant
was an empty bottle of Moetchampagne, which you see in that
photograph.
There was a lengthy grand juryinvestigation conducted in this

(05:39):
case.
Witnesses were identified whorevealed that June and Anna
Creon had lied to the policewhen claiming that they had no
knowledge.
Mr Anna Creon had alsoallegedly told folks that he had
disposed of the murder weapon,the gun that was used on Ms
Roseman, by throwing it in theriver State Police Crime Scene
Services investigators carefullyexamined the interior of the

(06:02):
Honda.
Analysis indicated that RobertoJune was a potential
contributor to a DNA swapmixture that was recovered on
the passenger side interior doorhandle.
Investigators also learned thaton the night of April 7, 2009,
in the immediate aftermath ofthe shooting of Ms Richmond,

(06:23):
june and Anna Creon had shared acelebratory bottle of Moet
champagne consistent with thebottle that was recovered during
the execution of that searchwarrant.
The defendant allegedlycontinued to try to conceal his
involvement in this incidentfrom prosecutors and police,
telling Ms Richmond's family, aswell as investigators, that he
had no idea.

(06:43):
Telling Ms Richmond's family, aswell as investigators, that he
had no idea about what hadhappened, had not been present,
did not know any of this.
It is an indication of ourcontinuing commitment, as we've
indicated for a number of years,and what led to the creation of
our cold case unit.
When you come into MiddlesexCounty and take someone's life
or commit another serious felony, we do not forget and we do not

(07:06):
give up.
And I know that there arefamilies who are still waiting
for a call like the call we wereable to make earlier today to
Ms Richmond's family to tellthem that, despite the passage
of 16 years, we were now able tobegin that journey to
accountability.
But it is a testament to thework of the detectives of this

(07:27):
case, who never gave up onlooking.
It is a testament to the workof Dave Sallet and our cold case
unit, hundreds and hundreds ofhours of piecing this
investigation together to get tothat place.
And it is another in the litanyof cases that we are being able
to get to answers for familiesand accountability for folks

(07:50):
decades after the crimes havebeen committed.

Anngelle Wood (07:52):
Highlights that I pulled from District Attorney
Marion Ryan of Middlesex Countyand the Cold Case Unit that she
established years ago, talkingabout Charlene's case.
Almost 16 years to the day whenCharlene was discovered shot to
death through the back of herhead in her father's Honda

(08:15):
Parked in a parking lot behindMidnight Convenience in Union
Square in Somerville.
How that even happened I have alot of questions.
I have said all along that thatis a high traffic area and for
a car with a murdered woman tobe left there unattended for six

(08:36):
days and no one notice, that'simpossible.
Boston 25 News says this.
On the day she was last seenalive, charlene planned to buy a
car with just over $4,000 incash.
That has never been found.
Charlene's family tried to filea missing persons report with
the Everett police where theylive.
They knew something was verywrong.

(08:58):
When she didn't come home thatnight Once.
She didn't show up the nextmorning and didn't report to
work, her family knew somethingwas terribly wrong.
Days later six Charlene wasfound.
She was murdered behind thewheel of her father's car parked
in an apartment buildingparking lot in Somerville.
D.
A.
Ryan detailed Thursday that theshot that killed Charline came

(09:20):
from the back seat of the cargoing right through the driver's
seat headrest, investigatorslearned that Charlene had been
in negotiations with someonewhom she considered one of her
closest friends, roberto Jude.
A man named Hensky Anacreon hasbeen arrested and charged with
first-degree murder in her case.

(09:41):
Roberto Jude's DNA was found inthe Honda that Charlene was
killed in and because thisnow-deceased man, roberto Jude,
was a known friend of Charlene's, finding his DNA wasn't
alarming to police at the time,investigators thought they were
friendly.
There are probably severalother occasions where they may

(10:02):
have hung out in that car.
Certainly I don't know what theinvestigators thought, but
that's why this case has goneunsolved for 16 years.
After Charlene was robbed andmurdered, these two men
allegedly shared a celebratorybottle of champagne drinking to

(10:23):
ending a young woman's life.
Evidence that was gatheredindicated that Anna Creon
knowingly, intentionally andintentionally calculated to
obstruct this investigation,speculated to obstruct this
investigation, telling MsRoseman's family as well as
investigators, that he had noidea what had happened.
He had not been present and didnot know any of it, according

(10:47):
to DA Ryan.
This is incredible informationand it completely derailed my
day.
I will tell you that I firstfound out when I contacted Rose,
charlene's sister, because DARyan was scheduled to speak and
give updates on two Somervillecases, two unsolved Somerville

(11:08):
cases Charlene Roseman's16-year-old unresolved case
solved case and Deanna Kremen'scase that has languished for 30
years unsolved.
Deanna, we are coming for younext Now.
We are a long way from a trial.

(11:29):
This is just the beginning ofthis new stage for the Roseman
family, but I can tell you thatI am so relieved for them to get
this information.
This has been very difficultfor her entire family.
Charlene's family will bemeeting this Sunday, april 13th,

(11:52):
the 16th anniversary of whenshe was found in Somerville in
her father's car, 3 pm in UnionSquare in Somerville,
massachusetts.
I do plan to attend.
Justice is often slow and wehave much more waiting to do
before there's a verdict in thiscase, but I will be here every

(12:16):
step of the way because Charlenedeserves justice.
Her family deserves justice.
There's no such thing asclosure, not any nice and neat
pack it and put it away kind ofclosure.
These things stay with familiesfor the rest of their lives.
But it is incredibly importantthey have charged this man with

(12:40):
Charlene's murder, though herfriend, roberto Jude, escaped
prosecution and life.
I'd like to believe there is aspecial place where someone like
him might go.
Everybody has their ownpersonal hell.
Maybe it is a recording of myfive dogs licking their feet all
at the same time.

(13:01):
Hearing that in a constant loopis enough to drive anybody
bananas.
I don't know about hell and asa kid I went to church a lot but
I will tell you this you don'tneed religion or even
spirituality to know right fromwrong.
To set up a friend, to rob andmurder them and then celebrate

(13:22):
with champagne toast afterUnforgivable.
I can't see anything goodhappening for you.
I will be following this case.
Thank you for listening.
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