New chief homicide prosecutor named by DA

By Megan Woolhouse, Globe Staff

Edmond J. Zabin has been named Suffolk County's new chief homicide prosecutor, responsible for reviewing every suspicious death in Boston, Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said this afternoon.

Zabin replaces David Meier, who held the job 12 years and is leaving the job to go into private practice.

Conley said Zabin, a career prosecutor who has worked at the Suffolk County District Attorney's office for 15 years, "has a tremendous work ethic."

"Eddie is somewhat of an understated guy," Conley said in a phone interview. "He's not a screamer or a yeller or theatrical, but he really pursues the truth with persistence."

A graduate of Colby College and Northeastern University law school, Zabin recently directed the investigation that led to an indictment in the murder of Revere Police Officer Daniel Talbot.

As chief prosecutor, he will oversee more than a dozen homicide prosecutors and handle as many as a dozen of his own, Conley said.

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