page_title: Jesse Pomeroy
section_title: The crime
hierarchical_section_title: Jesse Pomeroy / The crime
caption_attribution_description: English: Reward poster for Katie Mary Curran, abducted by Jesse Harding Pomeroy
context_page_description: Jesse Harding Pomeroy was a convicted American serial killer and the youngest person in the history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to be convicted of murder in the first degree. He was found guilty by a jury trial held in the Supreme Judicial Court of Suffolk County in December 1874.
context_section_description: In February 1874, at the age of 14, Pomeroy was paroled back to his mother and brother in South Boston. His mother ran her own dressmaking shop, and his brother Charles sold newspapers.
  In March 1874, a ten-year-old girl from South Boston named Katie Curran went missing. On April 22, 1874, the mutilated body of four-year-old Horace Millen was found on the marsh of Dorchester Bay. Immediately, the police detectives sought out Pomeroy, despite lacking evidence implicating him in the crime. The body of Katie Curran was found later, in the basement of Pomeroy's mother's dress shop. Her remains were hastily and carelessly concealed in an ash heap.
caption: Reward poster issued by the City of Boston for information about Katie Curran's abductor
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