Police Seek Help With Brookline Arson & Murder Cold Case

Brookline MA

05 April, 2022

11:48 AM

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BROOKLINE, MA — Maine State Police are asking for help to solve a cold case involving a Brookline resident who died in a vehicle fire in Amherst on April 5, 1976. James Cassidy, who was an executive employee of the Brookline Trust Bank at the time of his death and owned a stamp collecting business in Chestnut Hill, was found burned to death inside his green 1971 Chrysler station wagon on a woods road off Route 9. An investigation determined that the vehicle fire was a result of arson. Forty-six years later, officials are looking for more information about the fire and Cassidy's death. Anyone with information about the cold case is asked to contact the Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit - North at 207-973-3750 or leave a tip here.