Overview

• CBS Boston I-Team sources say the exhumed remains are those of 15-year-old Henry Bedard Jr., whose 1974 homicide remains unsolved.
• Essex County District Attorney Paul Tucker confirmed a body was exhumed and sent to Boston for autopsy, without identifying the remains.
• The Massachusetts State Police and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner were on site as heavy equipment and tents marked the operation at Swampscott Cemetery.
• Tucker said the chosen date held no special significance and that advances in DNA and forensic science led to the court-ordered exhumation.
• Bedard was last seen on December 16, 1974 on Paradise Road and found the next day in woods off Suffolk Avenue, where police recovered a baseball bat with unique handle markings.