MALDEN, Mass. — A 43-year-old Malden, Mass., man has been charged with murder after his sister was found dead in a home on Lombard Court, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office and the Malden Police Department said Friday.
Prosecutors identified the defendant as Jean Eddy Noel. The woman who died was his 38-year-old sister, Kenia Noel. Both lived in Malden, a Middlesex County city that borders Boston to the north.
It started Thursday, when Noel himself dialed 911 and told dispatchers his sister had killed herself. Malden officers who went to the house found that she had clear injuries to her neck.
What officers found inside did not match the call, investigators said. Officers recovered three knives. One was in her hand, a bloodied one sat on a table, and the third was lying in a bedroom.
Investigators later concluded that after she died, Noel went out to shower elsewhere, and that the home showed signs of a cleanup attempt before officers got there. Police reported cuts on his hands and a substance in his vehicle that looked like blood.
He went before a judge Friday in Malden District Court, where he was ordered held without bail. His next hearing is set for Jan. 5.
Both agencies announced the charge together on Friday, a day after the 911 call that first brought officers to Lombard Court. The death is being handled as a homicide, and investigators have not said what led up to it or whether anyone else was in the home at the time. Authorities have not released other details about the siblings.
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