Man admits to committing ‘ice-blooded’ cold case murder in 1979

A person from Oregon went to an FBI office and admitted to committing a murder in a different part of the country in 1979.

John Michael Irmer, who is 68 years old, appeared in a Massachusetts court on Monday. He is being charged for the murder of Susan Marcia Rose, which happened nearly 44 years ago.

Rose was discovered lifeless on October 30, 1979 in an unfinished building in the Back Bay area of Boston. The reason she died was because she had many injuries on her body and cuts in her brain.

They found her dead body in the building the following day. Irmer had left and gone to New York City.

In August, Irmer told FBI agents in Portland that he met Rose, who was 24 at that time, at a Boston skating rink the day before Halloween. The two people decided to go and check out a building at 285 Beacon Street. The building was being fixed up at that time.

After going into the building, Irmer quickly picked up a hammer and hit Rose on the head, causing her death. He then went on to force her to have sex against her will.

No one was able to find out who killed Rose for a long time. Another person who was believed to have killed her was arrested and accused of the crime, but in 1981 he was found innocent after a trial.

At the same time, Irmer was found guilty of killing a person who sold drugs in California in 1983. He was in prison for 30 years before being released in 2013.

He didn’t speak for 10 more years before going to the Portland FBI office last month, where he admitted to another murder in the south.

It is said that Irmer didn’t know Rose’s name when he admitted, but he gave enough information for them to connect his confession to her unsolved case.

The FBI investigators found that Irmer’s DNA matched a sample taken from Rose’s body.

Irmer was brought back from Oregon to Massachusetts on the weekend. He was officially charged with committing very serious crimes, including murder and rape.

“This was a very violent and cold-hearted murder. It was even more upsetting because someone was accused and taken to court, but thankfully, they were found innocent. Meanwhile, the true killer stayed silent until recently,” stated Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden.

Irmer is currently in custody and not allowed to be released on bail.