NATICK – The Massachusetts Parole Board has denied the release of a Middleboro man convicted of second-degree murder in 2011, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz has announced.
Darren Caswell, 60, was charged for his role in the 2003 murder of Matthew Cote and was found guilty in Plymouth County Superior Court. Investigators determined Cote, then 26, was stabbed to death over a debt to Caswell’s cousin. The victim’s body was discovered days later in the rear seat of his pickup truck in a remote area in the town of Carver. Both the victim and his truck were found severely burned.
The circumstances surrounding Cote’s death remained unsolved for several years. Caswell was ultimately connected to the homicide by investigators in 2009…