'It Wasn't A Murder': Man Convicted Of Killing Bella Bond Says He's Innocent

Boston MA

12 November, 2020

7:37 AM

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From CBS Bo BOSTON (CBS) – Michael McCarthy is five years into a life sentence. The 40-year-old was convicted of killing Bella Bond, his then girlfriend's daughter, but McCarthy, who is preparing for an appeal hearing next week, tells the I-Team he didn't kill her. "Never. Never. I never harmed a hair on her head, you know she was a beautiful happy healthy little girl," McCarthy said. "It wasn't a murder. Because there was no evidence that it was a murder." The toddler's body, at the time unidentified, washed up in a trash bag on Winthrop's Deer Island in June of 2015. Officials called her "Baby Doe." Read more at CBS Boston