Maribel Martinez-Alegria

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.