Suspect Charged With Second Cold Case Murder

State Police made an arrest in a cold case murder from 1998 on Wednesday.

Detectives charged Dickie Anderson, Jr. with the murder of Michelle Comeau of Franklin.

Comeau was 29 when her body was found dumped along an access road to the Norwich Industrial Park near Dodd Stadium in Norwich in 1998.

Anderson, 40, was arrested by State Police Wednesday morning.

He was already being held in connection with the 1997 murder of Rene Pellegrino in Waterford. Anderson was arrested in June after being connected to the Pellegrino murder through DNA, according to State Police.

In 2002, police in Norwich compared the murders of Comeau and Pellegrino to the killing of a third woman, Hope Becker, who was found strangled to death in Mohegan Park.

Anderson has not been tied to Becker's murder.

He's being held on $1 million bond.

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