In 2009, a Massachusetts man and a friend allegedly shot and killed a woman before celebrating with a bottle of champagne while her family searched for her.
More than 16 years later, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan announced that Heinsky Anacreon, now 38, has been charged with murder in the 2009 shooting death of Charline Rosemond, 23.
Anacreon appeared in court on Monday and pleaded not guilty to the charges of murder, willfully misleading a police officer, and willfully misleading an attorney.
Rosemond was last seen alive in Somerville on April 7, 2009. Her family reported her missing after she did not return home in her father’s car.
Rosemond’s body was discovered six days later, on April 13, in her father’s car in a parking lot. She’d been shot in the head.
Rosemond withdrew $4,100 in cash from the bank just days before her death, intending to purchase a used Lexus, according to authorities.
But Anacreon, along with another man, Roberto Jeune, whom Rosemond thought was a close friend, allegedly convinced her that Jeune knew someone who could get her the same type of car at a lower price, according to a news release issued by the Middlesex District Attorneys’ Office Cold Case Unit after he was arrested last month.
On the day Rosemond disappeared, the two men allegedly lured her to a remote parking lot, where she was shot and killed. She had no cash on her, leading investigators to believe she had been robbed.
Anacreon later admitted to a close confidant that he had provided the.44 Magnum firearm used to murder Rosemond, according to prosecutors.
He then threw the gun into an unknown body of water, authorities said. The murder weapon has never been located.
On Sunday, the district attorney stated that Anacreon’s indictment is the first step toward “holding him accountable for Charline Rosemond’s murder.” It’s another reminder of our commitment to not forgetting or giving up on uncharged cases.”
“Charline Rosemond was a promising and hard-working young woman with her whole life ahead of her,” says Ryan.
“We allege today that she was taken advantage of and murdered by two men who were willing to kill her for $4,000. They killed her in cold blood. They celebrated the murder with a bottle of champagne and left her body in a parking lot for days while her family searched desperately for her.”
Anacreon is currently serving a six-year sentence in prison for an unrelated offense. He is scheduled to return to court on June 24.
Roberto Jeune died of natural causes in Philadelphia on July 8, 2024, according to authorities. However, the district attorney has stated that she believes Jeune would have been indicted if he were still alive.
