BOSTON, December 17, 2025 – A Jamaica Plain man stabbed a woman 37 times in 1997 before fleeing her Mattapan apartment and leaving blood stains on her doorframe and DNA under her fingernails, which provided investigators evidence to charge him with murder 28 years later, a prosecutor said in court today.
BRIAN KEAZER, 50, appeared in Suffolk Superior Court today after being indicted and arrested yesterday for the October 17, 1997 murder of Ruth Foster, 56, at Foster’s 47 Withington Street apartment in Mattapan. Keazer pleaded not guilty and was ordered held without bail. He will return to court January 8 for a pre-trial conference.
Assistant District Attorney John Verner said investigators found Foster’s front door broken toward the outside, leaving glass and blood on her front steps. Investigators also found blood on the door frame, Verner said…