Crime & Safety
Jury to Decide Brutal 1988 Andover Rape Case
Valentine Underwood, a convicted murderer, in on trial in Salem Superior Court.
Jury deliberations were ongoing Monday in a brutal 1988 rape case in Andover.
Valentine Underwood, a convicted murdered from California, has been on trial in Salem Superior Court.
He was charged with kidnapping a 24-year-old woman in Andover. He raped her, stabbed her, and left her to die in a ditch, prosecutors said.
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Underwood, who's representing himself, said he wasn't in Massachusetts at the time of the crime, the Eagle-Tribune reported.
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