Portland man confesses to 44-year-old Boston murder

[Kingspoint]

Updated: Sep. 11, 2023, 1:08 p.m.|Published: Sep. 11, 2023, 1:00 p.m.

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/202...on-murder.html

By Fedor Zarkhin | The Oregonian/OregonLive

A Portland man confessed last month to killing a woman in Boston 44 years ago, officials said.

Detectives arrested John Michael Irmer, 68, and transported him to Boston last weekend, just over a month after he walked into the Portland FBI office and told agents he had killed someone in 1979, the Suffolk County, Massachusetts, district attorney said in a statement Monday. Irmer told agents that he met a red-haired woman at an ice-skating rink around Halloween that year and went with her to a house under renovation. Inside the house, Irmer grabbed a hammer, hit the woman on the head and then raped her, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said. Irmer fled to New York the next day.

Boston investigators confirmed that in 1979 Susan Marcia Rose was found dead at the address Irmer had given the FBI. The 24-year-old woman, originally from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, died of multiple blunt injuries to the head. A DNA sample collected at the scene matched a sample investigators collected from Irmer, the district attorney said.

About two years after Rose died, a man was tried in her killing. He was found not guilty.

https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/09...y-hammer-slay/

[Kingspoint]

Turns out that he confessed to another murder in Georgia. They are investigating that.

He also spent 30 years in prison in California prisons for another murder and has since been out the last 10 years, when he decided to walk into the Portland FBI office.

[kaldaniels]

The only cold case coming out of the PNW I case about is DB Cooper.

[Sea Ray]

Turns out that he confessed to another murder in Georgia. They are investigating that.

He also spent 30 years in prison in California prisons for another murder and has since been out the last 10 years, when he decided to walk into the Portland FBI office.

Interesting that he'd decide to "come to Jesus" now

[Kingspoint]

The only cold case coming out of the PNW I case about is DB Cooper.

"He's Dead, Jim."

[jimbroznan]

He is 68, been in prison most of his life-no money, few work credits so no Social Security/Medicare, likely no family/friends so dying in prison is likely the best he can do.