Here is some more information related to the Richard A. Tuttle Jr.. This may offer more insight to what happened.

891107RT Lancaster, Massachusetts, Abduction, Date of Incident 8-24-90, Located, Homicide.

Richard Tuttle Jr., 20 year old male disappeared with a large amount of cash. Foul play suspected in this case involving drug deal gone bad. NEMPB launched search efforts to cover territory as indicated by police officials investigating the case. Specialists on the case: Dana Preston, Steve Chase, Andy Gillis, J.T. MaGee, Mike Meyers, Shaun O'Donoghue, Noelle Prebolla, Arron Saris, James Sherman, Scott "Radar" Burnett, Michelle Cormier, Mark Byron.

Below are some related newspaper articles. They tell a very dangerous story on how the NEMPB risked their lives investigating this case.

NEMPB agents went undercover with the police to leverage evidence to get answers . Dana Preston built a small pen microphone to use with a small two-way radio to be worn as a wire. This radio was used to give the signal for when the police that were standing by to come in and make an arrest. This operation used a violation of the law to leverage the people involved with pertant knowlege of the case to come clean.

At the time the NEMPB had no idea who thy were dealing with and later discovered that the people that were involved were tied into a drug king pin and major criminals. Here are the articles that relate to the case.

Worcester Telegram and Gazette 

Drug lord released from fed prison

By Karen Nugent TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF

Posted Mar. 25, 2006 at 6:00 AM

LANCASTER

Convicted drug kingpin Joseph H. “Jay” Catalucci, the leader of one of the most well-publicized crimes in town, has been released from federal prison after more than 13 years, and has been under house arrest in his old stamping ground off Fort Pond since March 7.

Traci Billingsley, spokeswoman for the federal Bureau of Prisons, said yesterday that Mr. Catalucci, 53, who received a sentence of 15 years and eight months in 1993, will be officially released May 4. He will then have five years of supervision, during which he must report regularly to a federal probation officer.

Ms. Billingsley said Mr. Catalucci served the last part of his sentence at a federal prison facility in the JFK Building in Boston. She said it is typical that inmates at the end of their sentences be transferred to smaller, pre-release facilities like halfway houses, or placed under home confinement.

Mr. Catalucci, who lived on Fire Road 42 in Lancaster, was first indicted in November 1991 with eight others, in what law enforcement officials called an international drug ring involving the distribution of more than 100,000 pounds of marijuana and hashish from Colombia and Jamaica, worth more than $300 million.

Yesterday, police Chief Kevin D. Lamb said he has been told by two of his officers that they have seen Mr. Catalucci in his yard at the same Fire Road 42 house he previously lived in.

“I wish the prison had notified us of this. We were not notified,” Chief Lamb said. “But we knew he’d be getting out someday.”

Mr. Catalucci also was charged with tax fraud in the 18-count indictment, which alleged that the marijuana operation regularly brought drugs to Central Massachusetts on boats from the Caribbean and Florida through islands off the coast of Maine, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

The indictments alleged that the drug smuggling had been going on since at least 1969, and that Mr. Catalucci was considered the leader.

Also indicted were Nicholas F. Minotti of Jamaica, Stephen J. Marble of Lancaster, Zoel Richards of Florida, Thierry J.M. Hardy of the French West Indies, John E. Silwa of Lancaster, Perrec C. Petry of Florida, Douglas C. Robertson of Princeton and David B. Follansbee of Lancaster.

Mr. Catalucci and Mr. Richards, formerly of Leominster and also a leader of the operation, pleaded guilty to the drug and tax-fraud charges in 1992. As part of the plea-bargain arrangement for a lesser sentence, the two co-conspirators agreed to participate in an investigation into the disappearance of Richard A. Tuttle Jr. of Lancaster, 20, last seen in Clinton in 1989. Mr. Tuttle’s mother said her son was acquainted with Mr. Catalucci, but Mr. Catalucci passed a lie detector test in 1992 regarding his knowledge of Mr. Tuttle’s disappearance.

After a massive, years-long search, Mr. Tuttle’s remains were found in 1995 in a pond in Ashby, when authorities were directed there by David M. Iacaboni, formerly of Westminster and another associate of Mr. Catalucci.

Mr. Iacaboni, who was serving a federal prison sentence for drug charges, admitted killing Mr. Tuttle, and helped authorities find his remains, in exchange for a reduced charge of manslaughter.

Mr. Iacaboni, who for a time was known as David Hargraves, is still serving an 18- to 20-year sentence for the manslaughter. He is the son of convicted Leominster bookmaker Frank E. Iacaboni, who was nearly killed in a 1995 shootout with a convicted murderer who was attempting to rob the house.

Mr. Catalucci had earlier brushes with the law.

In 1975, he fatally shot an intruder in the head at his Fort Pond camp, after the intruder allegedly shot a visitor from New Hampshire. Police said drugs were involved, and that the intruder was attempting to steal marijuana.

According to court records in the 1991 indictment, Mr. Catalucci several years earlier had ordered the kidnapping and severe beating of a Clinton resident.

Clinton Police Chief Mark R. Laverdure, who spent years investigating Mr. Tuttle’s disappearance, yesterday characterized Mr. Catalucci as a “notoriously dangerous man.”

“Prison is where he belongs,” the chief said.