Commonwealth v. Anderson

The defendant was convicted in February, 1986, of murder in the first degree of Bobbie Jean Graham on the theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. Her body, badly injured by multiple blunt force injuries, was found on Monday, May 7, 1979, in an alley behind 269 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. The victim lived with the defendant at 293 Commonwealth Avenue where he was the superintendent.

The defendant was convicted because of the voluntary cooperation of a large number of citizens who came forward shortly after the announcement of the killing of a black woman in the…