The Jay girl disappeared 17 years ago.
JAY – Dick Moreau is offering a $5,000 reward for the location and remains of his teenaged daughter Kim Moreau or the conviction of whoever was responsible for her disappearance in 1986.
State Police Detective Mark Lopez and Dr. Ed David of the State Medical Examiner’s Office in the Bangor area searched the upper end of Baldwin Street in Livermore Falls Tuesday with cadaver dogs near the Jay line.
It was the fifth search of the area since spring and probably not the last, Lopez said.
The detective has at least one or two other spots in Jay and Canton that he plans to search before winter.
Kim Moreau was 17 when she was last seen leaving her Jewell Street home in Jay on May 10, 1986, with an unknown individual who was driving a late model white Trans-Am. She was wearing a white blouse, blue jeans, white high-top sneakers and a man’s class ring engraved “Mike 1987” and “Mike Staples.”
Today she would be 34 years old.
“Foul play is suspected” in the teenager’s disappearance, according to one of hundreds of posters with Kim’s photo and age-progressed photo that are taped to utility poles from Farmington to East Livermore to Rumford.
Moreau received permission from Central Maine Power Co. to put the posters up as long as he used tape. Hundreds more posters are going up to announce the reward.
Both Moreau and Lopez hope the $5,000 will catch the attention of anyone who may know something and haven’t told police yet.
Both men believe there are people out there who know what happened to Kim.
“We encourage anybody to come forward with any information,” Lopez said. “It might not be important to them but it might be important to us.”
The extended community, including businesses have rallied around Moreau to raise money for the search fund.
Members of the VFW in Jay presented Moreau with a check for $3,100 Friday night. The money raised through a benefit supper, donations and raffles will go into the Kim Moreau Search Fund, which is registered with the state, Dick Moreau said.
Members of the Rumford Eagles’ Lodge have contributed $1,000 to the fund.
Moreau has had private people working on the search since February.
Moreau said the reward was offered after he and assistants realized that was one thing that hadn’t been tried in the case.
“We’re looking for closure,” Moreau said, “and if that’s the way we have to do it … we’re offering money.”
The reward won’t be offered forever, he said and added that “people work hard for their money.”
If Kim is found, and Moreau believes she will be, and nobody provided the information necessary for the discovery or a conviction, the money would go into a scholarship fund.
Moreau has had very little time off since the search for his daughter was renewed this spring. He won’t give up, he said, and is willing to listen to anybody who may have information. All they have to do is call either Moreau at (207)897-4895 or Maine State Police at (800)482-0730.
dperry@sunjournal.com
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