Amy E. Lord was savagely beaten inside her South Boston apartment building early Tuesday before she was ordered into her Jeep by her attacker, a man who then forced Lord to drive to five Boston banks during a 47 minute span — before murdering her and leaving her body at the Stony Brook Reservation, a law enforcement official said today.
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, also described Edwin J. Alemany. 28, as a “person of interest’’ in the murder of Lord, a 24-year-old Wilbraham native and Bentley University graduate whose death has shocked her family, friends, and neighbors in both her hometown and in South Boston.
The official also said that while investigators initially believed that Lord may have been victimized by two men, Boston police homicide detectives have concluded that Lord was kidnapped, attacked, robbed, and murdered by just one man.
Alemany has not been charged with murdering Lord.
But he is scheduled to be arraigned in South Boston Municipal Court today on charges of punching a woman on Old Colony Avenue near Andrew Square around 5 a.m. on Tuesday and stabbing a woman as she walked on Gates Street near Telegraph Street shortly after midnight on Wednesday.
Boston police and Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley appealed for the public’s help in tracking Lord’s movements across the city early Tuesday. Lord was forced into her black Jeep around 6 a.m. and then driven to five banks where she tapped ATMs.
The last time her card was used was at 6:47 a.m., police said.
At 8:37 a.m., Boston police and fire officials responded to a call for a burning car at 26 Logan Way in South Boston. It was a black Jeep that police later learned was registered to Lord.
At 11 a.m., someone reported Lord missing to police in South Boston after she missed an appointment. At 4:21 p.m., a man riding his bicycle through Stony Brook Reservation in Hyde Park found Lord’s body in the woods.
Her death has devastated her family and friends, who recalled Lord as a vibrant, intelligent graduate of Bentley University who excelled at nearly everything she tried. At the time of her death, she was working as a media analyst for a digital marketing firm in the South End.
“If you had a daughter, you would want her to be like Amy,†her grandfather, Donald Lord, said. “She was everything you would want your daughter to be.â€
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