Benefit dinner commemorates 50 years since tragic Tewksbury murders

Benefit dinner commemorates 50 years since tragic Tewksbury murders

ANDOVER — When Maureen Mahoney arrived at her home in Tewksbury on New Year’s Eve in 1975, she opened the door to find her and her sisters’ lives upended with the murders of their parents and 15-year-old brother. The crime shocked what was then a rural town of 25,000 people. Dr. Hugh Mahoney, a well-known obstetrics and gynecology doctor in the area, his wife, Ruth, and their son, John, were widely respected in the town, and for six months the k…