Michael Ferreira Murder Trial
Brown Says Ferreira Threatened To Kill Him, Shelley After Murder
Co-Defendant called to the stand on Day 4 of cold case murder trial.
Michael Ferreira threatened to kill Walter Shelley and Edward Alan Brown if they ever talked about the events that led the death of Tewksbury teen Johnny McCabe in a vacant lot in Lowell in September, 1969. But that's exactly what Brown did Friday on Day 4 of Ferreira's 1st Degree Murder trial in Woburn's Middlesex Superior Court. Brown recounted how fellow Tewksbury High students Ferreira, 16, and Shelley, 18, came to his home on the night of Sept. 26 and recruited him in a mission to find the 15-year-old McCabe and "teach him a lesson" for flirting with Shelley's 13-year-old girlfriend, Marla Shiner. Brown said they found McCabe hitchhiking on Route 38, after having left a dance at the Knights of Columbus. He said Ferreira got out of …
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John
1:08 pm on Sunday, January 20, 2013
Makes me sick to think this group of friends would not only commit this crime but would hold this secret for over 40 years more ›