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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Chapters

• 0:00 Breaking News in Charlene Roseman's Case
• 1:30 Charlene's Story and Suspicious Lexus Deal
• 3:10 DA Ryan Announces Murder Arrest
• 7:40 Champagne Celebration After Killing
• 9:10 Justice After 16 Years
• 13:40 Supporting Crime of the Truest Kind

Transcript

Anngelle Wood: 0:00

Well, hello, my name is Anngelle Wood and this is Crime of the Truest Kind. Hey, everybody, I'm dropping in your feed today with a major break in an unsolved case that I have been talking about. Well, every opportunity I get to talk about Charline Rosemond's case, I have been talking pretty much nonstop on every episode or live show about her case. I have been talking pretty much non-stop on every episode or live show about her case. Those of you who are familiar with Crime of the Truest Kind and listen regularly, you know that I talked to her sister, rose, and did two episodes about her case last fall the unsolved murder of Charline Rosemond from Everett, Massachusetts. Her family's from Everett, she worked in Brighton and she was found in Somerville. Quick backstory to her case, though I would like you to go and listen to the episodes that I released a few months ago, in October of 2024, I spoke at length with Rose, Charline's sister, episode 71 and 72. Please go back and listen and we talked all about Charline and her case how 15 years had passed since Charline's murder, how it remained unresolved and the impact it had on her family. She was found in Somerville six days after she disappeared, on April 13, 2009. She was 23 years old. She was very hardworking and she had a number of goals that she set for herself and I guarantee, given the opportunity, Charline would have reached and surpassed those goals.

Anngelle Wood: 2:11

There were things that we knew about Charline's case. We knew she had $4,000 in cash. Charline had made the plan to go look at a Lexus, a car that she was very interested in buying. It was priced well, incredibly good, and that saying, when 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 red flags and I asked Rose Rosemond, charlene's sister, when we spoke about her case was there really a Lexus at all, or was that just merely a ploy to get Charlene somewhere with a stack of cash so they could take advantage of her cash, so they could take advantage of her? On Thursday April 10th, Middlesex County District Attorney Marion Ryan, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, announced the arrest of a man who's being charged in Charline's murder. I will share some audio from DA Ryan's press conference on the afternoon of Thursday, April 10th.

District Attorney Marion Ryan: 3:30

Just a few days after the 16th anniversary of the death of Charline Rosemond, we today identified and charged a person with her murder. Henske Anna Creon, who is 38 years old, of Malden, was indicted for murder for the shooting and killing of Charlene Roseman in her father's car in a parking lot in Semmelville in 2009. What we know about this case is that on April 3rd of 2009, charlene, who had been looking for a new car, had told friends that she had a friend who was going to connect her with the kind of car that she wanted at a good price, went to the bank you can see at the top of that poster. On April 3rd, she went to the bank. She withdrew $4,100 that she was 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 part of what she had told her friends was that, in order to get the good deal she anticipated getting on the car, she would have to pay cash. That's why she had made that large cash withdrawal. There was no cash found with her at the time her body was found, suggesting that the motive was robbery. Investigators learned that the victim had been in negotiation with someone who she considered one of her closest friends an individual named Roberto June, who is now deceased, and a third party later identified as Mr Anticrion to make the purchase of that car. In interviews with the police in the ensuing days after her disappearance, both June and Anticrion denied that they had been involved in her death. A search warrant was executed at Mr June's residence and it did not recover a firearm, but it did recover two hard cases used to store firearms a pair of latex gloves. Also recovered during that execution of that search warrant was an empty bottle of Moet champagne, which you see in that photograph.

District Attorney Marion Ryan: 5:36

There was a lengthy grand jury investigation conducted in this case. Witnesses were identified who revealed that June and Anna Creon had lied to the police when claiming that they had no knowledge. Mr Anna Creon had also allegedly told folks that he had disposed of the murder weapon, the gun that was used on Ms Roseman, by throwing it in the river State Police Crime Scene Services investigators carefully examined the interior of the Honda. Analysis indicated that Roberto June was a potential contributor to a DNA swap mixture that was recovered on the passenger side interior door handle. Investigators also learned that on the night of April 7, 2009, in the immediate aftermath of the shooting of Ms Richmond, june and Anna Creon had shared a celebratory bottle of Moet champagne consistent with the bottle that was recovered during the execution of that search warrant.

District Attorney Marion Ryan: 6:32

The defendant allegedly continued to try to conceal his involvement in this incident from prosecutors and police, telling Ms Richmond's family, as well as investigators, that he had no idea.

District Attorney Marion Ryan: 6:43

Telling Ms Richmond's family, as well as investigators, that he had no idea about what had happened, had not been present, did not know any of this.

District Attorney Marion Ryan: 6:49

It is an indication of our continuing 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 Middlesex County and take someone's life or commit another serious felony, we do not forget and we do not give up. And I know that there are families who are still waiting for a call like the call we were able to make earlier today to Ms Richmond's family to tell them that, despite the passage of 16 years, we were now able to begin that journey to accountability. But it is a testament to the work of the detectives of this case, who never gave up on looking. It is a testament to the work of Dave Sallet and our cold case unit, hundreds and hundreds of hours of piecing this investigation together to get to that place. And it is another in the litany of cases that we are being able to get to answers for families and accountability for folks decades after the crimes have been committed.

Anngelle Wood: 7:52

Highlights that I pulled from District Attorney Marion Ryan of Middlesex County and the Cold Case Unit that she established years ago, talking about Charlene's case. Almost 16 years to the day when Charlene was discovered shot to death through the back of her head in her father's Honda Parked in a parking lot behind Midnight Convenience in Union Square in Somerville. How that even happened I have a lot of questions. I have said all along that that is a high traffic area and for a car with a murdered woman to be left there unattended for six days and no one notice, that's impossible. Boston 25 News says this. On the day she was last seen alive, charlene planned to buy a car with just over $4,000 in cash. That has never been found. Charlene's family tried to file a missing persons report with the Everett police where they live. They knew something was very wrong. When she didn't come home that night Once. She didn't show up the next morning and didn't report to work, her family knew something was terribly wrong. Days later six Charlene was found. She was murdered behind the wheel of her father's car parked in an apartment building parking lot in Somerville.

Anngelle Wood: 9:16

D. A. Ryan detailed Thursday that the shot that killed Charline came from the back seat of the car going right through the driver's seat headrest, investigators learned that Charlene had been in negotiations with someone whom she considered one of her closest friends, roberto Jude. A man named Hensky Anacreon has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in her case. Roberto Jude's DNA was found in the Honda that Charlene was killed in and because this now-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 several other occasions where they may have hung out in that car. Certainly I don't know what the investigators thought, but that's why this case has gone unsolved for 16 years. After Charlene was robbed and murdered, these two men allegedly shared a celebratory bottle of champagne drinking to ending a young woman's life.

Anngelle Wood: 10:26

Evidence that was gathered indicated that Anna Creon knowingly, intentionally and intentionally calculated to obstruct this investigation, speculated to obstruct this investigation, telling Ms Roseman's family as well as investigators, that he had no idea what had happened. He had not been present and did not know any of it, according to DA Ryan. This is incredible information and it completely derailed my day. I will tell you that I first found out when I contacted Rose, charlene's sister, because DA Ryan was scheduled to speak and give updates on two Somerville cases, two unsolved Somerville cases Charlene Roseman's 16-year-old unresolved case solved case and Deanna Kremen's case that has languished for 30 years unsolved. Deanna, we are coming for you next Now. We are a long way from a trial.

Anngelle Wood: 11:29

This is just the beginning of this new stage for the Roseman family, but I can tell you that I am so relieved for them to get this information. This has been very difficult for her entire family. Charlene's family will be meeting this Sunday, april 13th, the 16th anniversary of when she was found in Somerville in her father's car, 3 pm in Union Square in Somerville, massachusetts. I do plan to attend.

Anngelle Wood: 12:06

Justice is often slow and we have much more waiting to do before there's a verdict in this case, but I will be here every step of the way because Charlene deserves justice. Her family deserves justice. There's no such thing as closure, not any nice and neat pack it and put it away kind of closure. These things stay with families for the rest of their lives. But it is incredibly important they have charged this man with Charlene's murder, though her friend, roberto Jude, escaped prosecution and life.

Anngelle Wood: 12:47

I'd like to believe there is a special place where someone like him might go. Everybody has their own personal hell. Maybe it is a recording of my five dogs licking their feet all at the same time. Hearing that in a constant loop is enough to drive anybody bananas. I don't know about hell and as a kid I went to church a lot but I will tell you this you don't need religion or even spirituality to know right from wrong. To set up a friend, to rob and murder them and then celebrate with champagne toast after Unforgivable. I can't see anything good happening for you. I will be following this case. Thank you for listening.

Anngelle Wood: 13:33

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Anngelle Wood: 14:16

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