Tewksbury Suspect Testifies in McCabe Murder Trial

A key prosecution witness in the John McCabe murder trial testified on the details of the night the 15-year-old Tewksbury died from strangulation on Thursday in Lowell Superior Court, according to a report from the Lowell Sun.

Edward Allan Brown, 61, of Londonderry, N.H., was a 17-year-old Tewksbury resident when he, Michael Ferreira and Walter Shelley allegedly picked up McCabe on his way home from a dance at Tewksbury Knights of Columbus, according to the Sun.

Brown testified the three drove McCabe to a vacant field in Lowell, where Ferreira bound McCabe's ankles and wrists and tied his ankles to his neck, according to the Sun.

Prosecution allege three returned to the field around an hour later to find McCabe dead, with the state medical examiner ruling the teen died from asphyxiation by strangulation, according to the Sun.

Walter Shelley, 61, of Tewksbury, is currently on trial and is being charged with first degree murder and intimidation of a witness in the 1969 murder of 15-year-old Tewksbury boy, according to the Sun.

Defense attorney Stephen Neyman, who represents Shelley, dismissed Brown as a credible witness, telling the jury Brown had given conflicting stories to police, according to the Sun. 

Read the full story from the Lowell Sun here.