Dec. 6, 1986, hit by vehicle, beaten in Sterling and Lancaster
Ms. Calvillo, a mother of two, decided to start walking when her ride didn’t arrive on time to take her home from her job at a plastics factory in Sterling. Christopher Fletcher struck her with his vehicle as he drove along Route 12. She asked if he was taking her to the hospital when he placed her in his vehicle, but he had other plans. Mr. Fletcher drove to a remote location in Lancaster where he attacked her and left her for dead.
Her body was found the next day.
Taken into custody in the investigation of another murder in 1995, Mr. Fletcher admitted to his involvement of several crimes, including hitting a woman in Sterling with his car a decade earlier. DNA testing, however, initially ruled him out as a suspect in Ms. Calvillo’s murder.
In 2011, the DNA recovered from Ms. Calvillo’s body was re-tested, and this time it proved to match Mr. Fletcher.
Peggy Sue Calvillo’s murderer, Christopher Fletcher, brought to justice after 28 years
Twenty-eight years after her murder, Peggy Sue Calvillo’s killer, Christopher Fletcher, entered a guilty plea today for 2nd degree murder.
Leominster man convicted in 1995 murder admits to slaying in 1986
WORCESTER – A Leominster man already destined to spend the rest of his life behind bars for his involvement in the murder of a Lunenburg woman in 1995 pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree …
A Worcester County grand jury indicted Mr. Fletcher for the murder, rape and kidnapping of Peggy Sue Calvillo. On Dec. 2, 2014, Mr. Fletcher pleaded guilty in Worcester Superior Court to second degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison to be served concurrently with the life sentence he was already serving for the 1995 murder of Elizabeth Jane Salsbury of Lunenburg.