"Michael Hand, 69, is finally standing trial this month, nearly four decades after prosecutors say he dropped a 73-pound rock on Gilpin's head and left the teen's partially clothed body in Plymouth's Myles Standish State Forest."
"Gilpin 'appeared heavily intoxicated and said the man in the car was weird and had asked her to get high and smoke weed with him, which she declined,' prosecutors relayed in court documents. The store clerk offered Gilpin a ride home, but the teen said she'd walk."
"Hand was initially arrested in North Carolina in March 2018, just months after Kerry Gilpin took the reins at the State Police (she stepped down the following year)."
Michael Hand, 69, is on trial for the 1986 murder of 15-year-old Tracy Gilpin in Massachusetts. Prosecutors allege Hand dropped a 73-pound rock on Gilpin's head and abandoned her partially clothed body in Myles Standish State Forest. The arrest came in March 2018, more than 30 years after the crime, with trial beginning nearly four decades later. Gilpin's older sister, former Massachusetts State Police Col. Kerry Gilpin, attended jury selection. Hand pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder; prosecutors dropped kidnapping and assault charges due to statute of limitations expiration. Gilpin disappeared on October 1, 1986, after being seen at a Cumberland Farms convenience store speaking with a man in a car who invited her to use drugs. Her body was discovered three weeks later in the state forest.
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