Marian T. Ryan

The mythology wrote itself, and each generation of Harvard students added a new chapter, each more baroque than the last.

When Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan finally announced the case solved in two thousand eighteen, a journalist asked her about the ochre.

Her answer stripped away forty-nine years of mythology in a single sentence.

It may have been meaningless all along.

The brother himself was specifically excluded as the source.

The genetic profile matched Michael Sumter.

On November twentieth, two thousand and eighteen, two months before the fiftieth anniversary of the murder, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan stood at a podium in Woburn, Massachusetts, and made the announcement that forty-nine years of investigation had been building toward.

Michael Sumter, she said, had been identified as the person responsible for the nineteen sixty-nine murder of Jane Britton.

Authorities uncovered online activity they described as concerning.

The investigation has so far shown that Anjun had recently been demonstrating some concerning behavior, including using the internet and ChatGPT to make searches for theoretical ideas or fantasy stories regarding the killing of his family, the Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan said in a press conference.

Ryan said the teenager had planned the deaths of family members in the form of fantasy fiction.

He was engaged in the use of ChatGPT in creating fantasy stories, kind of the Gothic novel kind of stories, asking questions, creating characters, asking about what this...