Maribel Martinez-Alegria

A SouthCoast man suspected of murdering his half-sister with a conch shell and other objects inside her New Bedford home in 2001 has been sentenced for a separate attack on another New Bedford woman.

The suspect in the 2001 New Bedford cold case murder of Rose Marie Moniz will be arraigned at the Fall River Justice Center on Friday morning.

The arraignment of a man charged with the 2001 murder of his half-sister in New Bedford has been postponed because the suspect has been exposed to COVID-19.

After 20 years, a man has been indicted for a previously unsolved New Bedford murder that saw a city woman bludgeoned to death with a fireplace poker, a conch shell, and a kettle.