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Marie Iannuzzi was 20 when she was murdered after attending a wedding on August 11, 1979. She was seen that night with her boyfriend, David Doyle, and an acquaintance, Leonard Paradiso. After an argument with Doyle she was later observed at a bar in East Boston and was last seen leaving that bar with Paradiso. Her body was found the next day, August 12, 1979, on the banks of the Pine River in Essex County; she had been strangled with her own black scarf, which was double-knotted around her neck.

Early investigation focused on two suspects, Doyle and Paradiso, but the case went cold until new attention in 1981 and an anonymous tip in January 1982 that pointed to Paradiso and linked him to another missing woman, Joan Webster. A grand jury convened in March 1982, and Paradiso was indicted on June 28, 1982, arrested July 6, 1982, tried in July 1984, and convicted by a jury on July 22, 1984, of second-degree murder and assault with intent to rape; he received a life sentence. Questions have remained about the earlier focus on David Doyle and aspects of the original investigation.

Did anyone in the community know Marie, Doyle, or Paradiso and have information about that August 1979 evening or the investigation that followed?