By Owen Boss
GRANBY - Authorities say an autopsy has shown that a woman found dead
in her Granby home Monday night was strangled.
After reviewing final autopsy results, Northwestern District Attorney
Elizabeth D. Scheibel said Friday night that an inquiry into the
unexplained death of Annamarie Rintala would be deemed a homicide
investigation.
Scheibel told the Gazette Friday night that there are no suspects at
this time, and that the investigation is active and ongoing.
Rintala, 37, was found dead inside her Barton Street home Monday by
police responding to a 911 call placed at 7:12 p.m. Dr. Joann Richmond
of the medical examiner's office, who reported the results of
Rintala's autopsy, told Scheibel that Rintala's death was a homicide
by strangulation.
Granby police said the investigation is ongoing and all inquiries will
be redirected to Scheibel's office.
Rintala was an emergency medical technician for American Medical
Response of Western Massachusetts. According to the Hampshire County
Registry of Deeds, Rintala's wife, Cara Rintala, bought their Barton
Street property in 2002. They were married in Northampton in 2007,
with Annamarie Cochrane taking the last name of her spouse, according
to municipal records.
Cara Rintala has been an employee of the Ludlow Fire Department for
the past 10 years, working as a firefighter and paramedic, Ludlow Fire
Chief Mark Babineau said earlier this week.
According to court documents, in October 2008, Cara Rintala was
charged in Eastern Hampshire District Court with domestic assault and
battery following an Oct. 27 incident during which Annamarie Rintala
told police that Cara Rintala had struck her hard in the back of the
head with a closed fist during a domestic incident in their home. All
charges in that case were dismissed at the request of the victim.
Annamarie Rintala's is the first homicide investigation in Granby
since 1980, when Reinhold P. Kruger, 49, of East Longmeadow, was found
in the woods off of Carver Street two months after he went missing,
according to published reports.
Owen Boss can be reached at oboss@gazettenet.com.
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