December 18, 2017 | By Marilyn Young Sue Cormier wasn’t on the Pawtucket Police Department when Wendy Madden was brutally raped and murdered in March 1991. But 22 years later, Cormier reopened the case when some unexpected information came in. A detective from another department was interviewing someone about a case he was investigating. The man couldn’t help with that case, but said, “I do know something about this girl Wendy who was killed.” The investigator matched the information to Madden’s murder and contacted the Pawtucket Police Department in Rhode Island. In the nearly five years that have followed, Cormier has practically been living the case, mostly around active investigations. And the veteran detective believes she’s a couple of months away from presenting her findings – and a suspect – to the Attorney General’s Office. It took a painstakingly, meticulous process to get there, one anchored in old-fashioned police work that benefited from modern advances, such as DNA technology and social media. Cormier joined the Pawtucket department as... Read More