MA MA - Natalie Scheublin, 55, bludgeoned to death, Bedford, June 1971

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Mother of two, Natalie M. Scheublin, 55, of 75 Pine Hill Rd, Bedford, Massachusetts, was found bludgeoned to death in her home. The police were informed of her death by her husband Raymond Scheublin (b.1919 d.2011), who at the time was the president of the Lexington (MA) Trust Company.

A nearby Veterans Administration hospital figured prominently in the early stages of the investigation because several patients were missing from the facility at the time.

1971.07.08 - Lowell Sun Massachusetts - Frank Joyce - Newspapers.com

This case was never solved.
 
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The July 8 article states that the VA patients were exonerated. I lived locally at the time and was always mystified by the lack of specifics made public about this crime and the investigation. It would be interesting to know if the case was ever reopened by law enforcement.
 
An article in the Wicked Local (MA) Archives from July 2011 reports that Middlesex District Attorney Gerald Leone's office was following up on new leads and encouraging anyone with information about the crime to contact the Bedford Police Department.

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Old murder gets new attention
By Eileen Kennedy
July 21, 2011
Publication: Bedford Minuteman (MA)
Page: 1
Word Count: 1231​

For 40 years someone has literally gotten away with murder - specifically, the brutal stabbing and beating of a Bedford housewife in her own home."

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faithx said:
Arthur Massei Arrested For 1971 Murder Of Natalie Scheublin In Bedford

"Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan announced that 76-year-old Arthur Massei has been arrested and charged with first degree murder connected to the 1971 death of Natalie Scheublin in Bedford."
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I find this interesting. LE identified Arthur Massei as a suspect 20+ years ago based on fingerprint evidence. But they didn't arrest him until recently when an elderly witness said that Massei had bragged about killing "someone" in a conversation 50 years earlier? That piece of corroborating evidence seems a little thin, despite possibly being true.
 
Who Is Arthur Louis Massei, From Salem MA? Raymond Scheublin Murder Suspect Arrested | Business Guide Africa
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Suspect in 1971 killing in Massachusetts held without bail (theintelligencer.com)
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March 23 2022
Salem man, 76, charged in 50-year-old cold case of slain Bedford woman (bostonherald.com)
''Nearly 30 years went, but by 1999 investigators had a new tool at their disposal: The FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, or IAFIS, which was launched in July that year, according to the FBI, and populated with 40,000 prints that could help investigators narrow down possible suspects.

Ryan said that Massei had been on the investigation’s radar since that time.

Investigators interviewed him and he said he’d never been to Bedford. In a later interview, Ryan said, he told investigators that an organized crime associate gave him a job to murder some banker’s wife and make it look like a break-in. He said he turned down the job.

During the recent revisit of the case, Ryan said, investigators found a woman who told them that she used to work with Massei on bank fraud cases — lowball affairs like check cashing schemes, Ryan said — and that he habitually carried a knife and had bragged that he had killed with it.

Massei will appear in court in Woburn Wednesday.''
 
Spider92 said:
I find this interesting. LE identified Arthur Massei as a suspect 20+ years ago based on fingerprint evidence. But they didn't arrest him until recently when an elderly witness said that Massei had bragged about killing "someone" in a conversation 50 years earlier? That piece of corroborating evidence seems a little thin, despite possibly being true.
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Not only that, but it would be interesting to know why it presumably took 20 years after his fingerprints were tied to the case to track this down. When, why and how did this alleged accomplice (in bank fraud) come forward? I hope it was an unfortunate lack of LE resources and not neglect, or worse, that caused this hiatus in the investigation. The timing is also unfortunate because if he were still alive, the victim's husband might have been able to shed further light.

The real question is, did the people and organizations he associated with through his work at the bank, and his dealings with them, have anything to do with the alleged attempted kidnapping, even if, as Ms. Ryan states, "Investigators found no corroborating evidence that Mr. Scheublin was involved in a plot to kill his wife."
 
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A 77-year-old man charged with a 52-year-old murder now faces accusations that he offered to pay a witness to lie on the witness stand in his defense and threatened others to repay debts, authorities said.

Arthur Massei was charged last year with first-degree murder in the 1971 stabbing and beating death of Natalie Scheublin in her Bedford home, the Middlesex District Attorney. A year later, prosecutors added more charges.

Following months of investigation, authorities charged Massei with solicitation to suborn perjury in a capital case, attempted extortion, solicitation to commit usury, and threatening to cause physical injury or death, officials said.

Massei is accused of sending letters from prison to a woman and asking her to find someone to testify at his trial that he had been framed in the killing of Scheublin, Middlesex DA Marian Ryan said. He offered to pay them $1,000.

Massei is also accused of threatening to have someone hurt the woman if she didn't do as she was told, Ryan said. He allegedly told her he would get to her "like a bullet."
 
TootsieFootsie said:

A 77-year-old man charged with a 52-year-old murder now faces accusations that he offered to pay a witness to lie on the witness stand in his defense and threatened others to repay debts, authorities said.

Arthur Massei was charged last year with first-degree murder in the 1971 stabbing and beating death of Natalie Scheublin in her Bedford home, the Middlesex District Attorney. A year later, prosecutors added more charges.

Following months of investigation, authorities charged Massei with solicitation to suborn perjury in a capital case, attempted extortion, solicitation to commit usury, and threatening to cause physical injury or death, officials said.

Massei is accused of sending letters from prison to a woman and asking her to find someone to testify at his trial that he had been framed in the killing of Scheublin, Middlesex DA Marian Ryan said. He offered to pay them $1,000.

Massei is also accused of threatening to have someone hurt the woman if she didn't do as she was told, Ryan said. He allegedly told her he would get to her "like a bullet."
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The wheels of justice are grinding slowly. How long can someone be held without a trial? Maybe indefinitely if he keeps committing crimes from prison!
 
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What happened 20 years ago, when they had his fingerprint.

I remember when police departments around the country all were creating Cold Case departments, and we had that great TV program.

It just looks like this one was overlooked for too long.
 
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