Convicted rapist charged with woman's 1988 murder in a factory basement on the South Boston waterfront

A antheral already locked up due to the fact that of a 1987 rape successful Revere present faces charges helium raped and murdered a pistillate 11 months aboriginal successful a gathering successful what was past the desolate South Boston waterfront, the Suffolk County District Attorney's bureau reports.

According to the DA's office, Richard Vega, present 59, raped and strangled Judy Chamberlain successful the erstwhile Fargo Building, 451 D St. successful what is present called the Seaport. On July 21, 1987, a operation idiosyncratic recovered her assemblage successful a h2o tube successful the basement aft proceeding h2o successful the tube making a unusual sound. At the time, the Globe reported authorities estimated the execution had occurred a fewer hours earlier.

DNA grounds archetypal linked Vega to Chamberlain's decease successful 2011, but prosecutors did not consciousness they had capable further grounds to bring him to proceedings for her murder. The DA's bureau says a cold-case portion successful its bureau began re-examining her case, 1 of astir 1,300 unsolved Suffolk County murders, and recovered capable grounds to bring Vega to trial. The bureau did not specify what benignant of grounds it found.

In 1990, Vega was sentenced to 19 1/2 to 20 years successful situation for raping an aged pistillate successful 1987, erstwhile she came up from Texas to sojourn her lad successful Revere. In 2008, a assemblage recovered him to inactive beryllium "sexually dangerous," and helium has remained "civilly committed" since then, the DA's bureau reports.