On January 27, 1978, 20-year-old Dorina Mariko Brown was killed in her Topsfield, Massachusetts home. He then waited for his father, Wilfred, to come home and murdered him as well. The motive given was Alfred’s fear of his father’s reaction to failing grades.

A later Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling made juveniles serving life without parole eligible for parole, and Alfred faced a parole hearing in 2018. At that hearing prosecutors revisited the killings; the prosecutor who secured the conviction expressed fear Alfred would kill again. A surviving sister, living in Hawaii, submitted a letter saying Alfred showed no remorse, had told her he did the family a favor, had changed her name, and lived in hiding out of fear.

Does anyone have additional details about the family or the 1978 investigation that could shed light on how the case was handled at the time?