An Oregon man recently walked into an FBI field office and confessed to hitting a Boston woman in the head with a hammer nearly 44 years ago, prosecutors said Monday.
John Michael Irmer, 69, allegedly confessed to the 1979 “ice-blooded” murder and rape of Pennsylvanian Susan Marcia Rose, whom he met at a Boston skating rink, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said.
Originally, another man suspected of committing violent crimes was charged, but he was acquitted during a June 1981 trial.
Irmer walked into the FBI’s Portland field office last month and told agents he met a red-haired woman at a skating rink around Halloween, the DA’s Office said.
The pair entered a home on Beacon Street, which was under renovation at the time, before he grabbed a hammer and struck her in the head, the DA’s Office said. He then allegedly raped her and fled to New York the next day.
Undated photo of Susan Marcia Rose, who was murdered in Boston in 1979. Suffolk DA/Handout
Investigators said Rose, a redhead, was the victim who was found beaten in a Beacon Street home the day before Halloween, prosecutors said. He suffered a fractured skull and a brain injury.
Irmer’s DNA was matched to samples preserved from the scene, the Suffolk DA’s Office said.
During Monday’s hearing, Irmer mostly hid behind a wall in the courtroom, CBS Boston reported. He is being held without bail on charges of aggravated murder and rape.
Irmer allegedly told FBI agents in Oregon he wanted to “confess to several murders,” prosecutors said in court, the Boston Globe reported.
Suspected killers were mostly in hiding during Monday’s hearing. WHDH
He also confessed to killing other people in the South. The case remains under investigation, Assistant District Attorney John Verner said in court.
Irmer was convicted of the robbery and murder of a drug dealer in 1983 in San Francisco, the newspaper reported. He spent 30 years in prison for the murder, Verner said.
“Nearly 44 years after losing her at such a young age, the family and friends of Susan Marcia Rose will finally have some answers,” Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said in a statement.
“This was a brutal, cold-blooded murder made worse by the fact that someone was charged and tried – and thankfully, found not guilty – while the real killer has remained silent until now,” Hayden said.
“No matter how cold the case is solved, it’s always an important answer for those who have lived with grief and loss and so many painful questions.”
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