A discarded cigarette found near the body of a Vermont teacher in her apartment nearly 52 years ago helped lead police to her murderer.
Burlington Police DNA evidence collected from the cigarette butt and dogged investigative work led authorities to the man they say killed Rita Curran within a 70-minute window on a July night in 1971.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
After Curran’s death DeRoos, who was known to some as a guru, moved to Thailand and became a monk, but he later returned to the United States. In 1986 DeRoos died of a drug overdose in San Francisco, police said. In the early morning hours of July 20, 1971 Burlington police were called to the Brooks Avenue apartment after Curran’s roommate arrived home to find her body in their shared bedroom.Article contentThe case remained open and investigators never let it go, but in 2019, Trieb and a team of detectives, officers, technicians and others began working the case as though it had just happened.
Detectives then determined DeRoos and his wife Michelle had been living upstairs at the time of Curran’s death. They had spoken with investigators after Curran’s death, but at the time they said they had not seen or heard anything. Detective Thomas Chennette, who interviewed DeRoos’s first ex-wife, said Tuesday he didn’t believe she knew he had killed Curran, but was protecting him because he had a criminal record.
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