Richard lavigne obituary: Almost 50 years after the assortment of 13-year-old Danny Croteau was discovered gliding in the Chicopee River, enduring family members of the killed kid joined Hampden District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni Monday as he distinguished shamed previous Catholic minister Richard R. Lavigne, a sex guilty party who kicked the bucket a week ago, as the executioner.

Gulluni said the previous minister kicked the bucket Friday evening in an emergency clinic office in Greenfield. He was 80. Hours before Lavigne’s demise, Gulluni said, he had approved state troopers connected to his office to look for a capture warrant charging Levine for the homicide.

During interviews a long time before Lavigne’s demise, Gulluni said, the previous minister represented a joined 11 hours to examiners and, while never conceding straightforwardly to killing the kid, yielded he was the last individual to see Danny alive and that he welcomed him to the riverbank on April 14, 1972. Gulluni said he likewise conceded to genuinely attacking Danny there and leaving, prior to returning a brief time frame later and seeing the kid’s body drifting in the waterway.