The friends and families of 54-year-old Gary Melanson and 30-year-old Douglas Leon Clarke have waited over a decade for justice to be served in their loved one’s killings. On Wednesday, the man prosecutors say is responsible faced charges in their deaths in Middlesex County Superior Court for the first time.
That man is 38-year-old former Lowell resident Kevin Lino, who is already serving a life sentence in Massachusetts for a Suffolk County murder, as well as a 40-year sentence for a killing in Montana, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan said previously.
Earlier this month, a grand jury indicted Lino on first-degree murder charges in Melanson’s and Clarke’s deaths. A judge held him without bail during his arraignment Wednesday morning, the district attorney’s office said in a press release…