Michael Ferreira Murder Trial
Closing Arguments Set For Today In Ferreira Murder Trial
Jury is expected to begin deliberations this afternoon.
Jury deliberations could begin as early as this afternoon (Jan. 24) in the murder trial of former Tewksbury resident Michael Ferreira. Both the prosecution and the defense wrapped up their cases on Wednesday and closing arguments in the highly publicized "cold case" are scheduled for this morning in Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn. Ferreira, who now lives in Salem, NH, is one of three men arrested in 2011 and charged with kidnapping Tewksbury 15-year-old Johnny McCabe off the street back in 1969, driving him to a vacant lot in Lowell and binding and gagging him in such a way that he died from asphyxiation. Ferreira was 16 at the time of the killing. While the prosecution concedes the death of McCabe was not premeditated, they have …
stephanie
3:53 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013
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