LYNN, MASS. (WHDH) – The arrest of an 18-year-old Lynn man who is accused of murdering a 68-year-old woman not known to him in Danvers Thursday has come as a shock to his neighbors, who say he never showed any signs of being troubled growing up.
Anthony DeMayo is charged with murdering 68-year-old Janet Swallow of Danvers. Prosecutors say DeMayo broke into Swallow’s home on Amherst Street and stabbed her to death while she was in bed. Investigators believe he acted alone, and that this was a random attack.
Rebekah Vestal lives next door to DeMayo’s family, she never would have expected anything this like to happen…