In a dramatic development in one of New England’s longest unsolved murder cases, authorities have exhumed the body of Henry Bedard, who was brutally killed more than 50 years ago.
The presence of Boston 25 News reporter Bob Ward was requested at Swampscott Cemetery on Wednesday morning, where the exhumation took place.
The State Medical Examiner’s Office, Essex District Attorney’s Office, Swampscott police, and Massachusetts State Police were at the scene as crews began the process around 9 a.m.
Bedard was murdered in December 1974, beaten to death with a baseball bat at the age of 15. Despite decades of investigation, no arrests have ever been made…