MA MA- Diane Licciardello, 28, Melrose, 12 Oct 1971

[Diane Redfern]

This reminds me the Flat tire murders, but that happened in Florida, four years later: Flat-Tire murders - Wikipedia
While I was reading about it, I also remember Trisha Newsom, whose body was located behind a Bradlee's department store in East Haven, Connecticut. Patricia Meleady “Trisha” Newsom (1957-1975) -...

The puncture makes me think this was planned. Maybe someone was stalking her. It would be great to know if other women had a similar experience there, if there were more punctures or strange breakdowns in their cars. Did they look for fingerprints on the car?
This case is also very similar: https://charleyproject.org/case/cindy-lee-mellin

 

[momcw]

Also recently learned about this case and have been intrigued by it.. in reading the articles and the thread, there is some confusion about whether Diane worked at the motel or a Japanese restaurant. Being from and knowing the area well, I can say that both are probably true. The motel (more like a motor inn) also had the Bisuteki Japanese restaurant on the premises for many decades. Over the years it became a Howard Johnson and is still there and open as a Four Points I think. It’s probably a 5-10 minute ride to the Parkway Plaza in Chelsea where Bradlees was. That shopping plaza at the time was a very busy one, also had a very busy movie theater there. The whole lot I do remember was very well lit. It does abut marshes. How did they surmise that she left the lot and returned because of the nail in her tire? My gut feeling is she was surprised at her car and grabbed there. Very sad.

 

[momcw]

 

[momcw]

The articles above are from the Boston Globe. Note the discrepancy of where her car was found in one of them.. if this is true, that’s huge, because Cambridge is about 30 minutes or so from the Bradlees in Chelsea! The follow-up articles all state the Bradlees lot having been where her car was found.

 

[jgfitzge]

Also recently learned about this case and have been intrigued by it.. in reading the articles and the thread, there is some confusion about whether Diane worked at the motel or a Japanese restaurant. Being from and knowing the area well, I can say that both are probably true. The motel (more like a motor inn) also had the Bisuteki Japanese restaurant on the premises for many decades. Over the years it became a Howard Johnson and is still there and open as a Four Points I think. It’s probably a 5-10 minute ride to the Parkway Plaza in Chelsea where Bradlees was. That shopping plaza at the time was a very busy one, also had a very busy movie theater there. The whole lot I do remember was very well lit. It does abut marshes. How did they surmise that she left the lot and returned because of the nail in her tire? My gut feeling is she was surprised at her car and grabbed there. Very sad.

I agree with you about the Japanese restaurant being part of the same motel/hotel. That still goes onto this day where many of the holiday ends have the Japanese restaurant Bamboo attached to it.