COLD CASE: Malden man, accomplice allegedly murdered Everett woman, 23, over $4,000, then celebrated with champagne

Victim was shot in Somerville in 2009; prosecutors said evidence was not strong enough to charge suspect at the time

By Steve Freker

A Malden man and an accomplice allegedly shot and killed a 23-year-old Everett woman in 2009 so they could steal $4,000 in cash she had saved up to buy a car. Prosecutors said the pair of alleged killers then celebrated their coldblooded murder over a bottle of champagne they shared while driving around Somerville, where the slaying took place.

Heinsky Anacreon, 38, of Malden, was indicted and charged with first-degree murder in the death of 23-year-old Charline Rosemond in April 2009, according to a statement released late last week by the office of Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan. It is one of a number of “cold case” crimes that have been solved by a new branch of Ryan’s office that began reopening and investigating these cases about two years ago. He is also facing charges of attempt to willfully mislead a police officer and attempt to willfully mislead an attorney in connection with the investigation into her death. Evidence in the case suggests that Anacreon – who was 21 at the time of the murder – and his friend the late Roberto Jeune tricked Rosemond into going to a remote parking lot in Somerville to buy a car she wanted using cash, then shot and killed her, the district attorney’s office said. According to prosecutors, Jeune died of natural causes in July 2024.

“Charline Rosemond was a promising and hard-working young woman with her whole life ahead of her,” Ryan said in a press release. “We allege today that she was taken advantage of and murdered by two men who were willing to take her life for [just] $4,000.”

At the time of her death, Rosemond was living with her family in Everett and working at a car dealership in Brighton. On April 3, 2009, she told friends and family she planned to buy a used Lexus. Rosemond’s bank records show that she had withdrawn  $4,000 from her account earlier that week, the district attorney’s office said. She considered Jeune one of her closest friends, and he convinced her that he knew someone who could get her the Lexus she wanted for a favorable price. Anacreon, the Malden murder suspect, had access to the type of Lexus Rosemond wanted through his job at a car dealership, the district attorney’s office said. He and Jeune used the car as bait to lure Rosemond to the Somerville parking lot before killing her and taking the money.

“They killed her in cold blood. They celebrated the murder with a bottle of champagne, and they left her body in a parking lot for days while her family frantically searched for her,” Ryan said in the release.

On the last day Rosemond was seen alive – April 7, 2009 – she left her workplace at the end of the workday and exchanged texts with friends until approximately 9:15 p.m. when she suddenly stopped replying, the district attorney said. She didn’t come home that night, which was unusual for her, so her family quickly reported her missing.

On April 13, 2009, she was found shot dead in the driver’s seat of her father’s car. The car was parked behind a variety store near Union Square in Somerville, the district attorney said. Rosemond had been shot in the head through the car seat’s headrest.

During the initial investigation into Rosemond’s death, both Anacreon and Jeune denied involvement in or knowledge of her killing, Ryan said. But later on, Anacreon allegedly admitted to a close confidant that he had provided the gun used to kill her. He also allegedly told the confidante that he disposed of the murder weapon by throwing it into a body of water, the district attorney’s office said. The gun used to kill Rosemond has never been recovered.

The initial police investigation into Rosemond’s death was thorough, but law enforcement didn’t have enough evidence at the time to be sure that charges against Anacreon and Jeune would stick, Ryan said. Additionally, a suspect cannot be charged with the same crime twice, so the amount of evidence against someone must reach a high bar before prosecutors begin the trial process if a prosecution is to be successful.