WORCESTER — It was 30 years ago Thursday that Kevin Harkins walked out of the former Suney’s Pub on Chandler Street, leaving his jacket, keys and an unfinished beer behind, never to be seen again.
While prosecutors and police managed to secure three murder convictions in his death a decade ago, his body has never been found.
His family, and a former police lieutenant who worked the case for years, would like that to change.
“It would mean the world to me to finally lay him to rest,” Mary Jane Simone, Harkins’ girlfriend, said Friday when contacted by the Telegram & Gazette.
Simone and Harkins’ cousin, Alan Thorpe, both spoke to the T&G Friday after talking to retired Worcester Lt. Timothy O’Connor, who said he can’t shake a promise he made to Harkins’ mother decades ago.
“I told her I’d never stop looking for Kevin,” said O’Connor, who believes somebody besides the three men convicted in Harkins’ death must know the location of his remains.
“There’s somebody out there that knows something,” said Thorpe, who hopes such a person will come forward with a tip.