Leslie Stasulis is still in critical condition at Central Maine Medical Center.
By Mark LaFlamme
Staff Writer

SABATTUS – Police are hoping a pickup truck seized over the weekend will help unravel the mystery of a Livermore Falls woman found critically injured last week on the side of Route 126.

Leslie Stasulis, 42, remained in critical condition Monday at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. Police said she suffered extensive injuries to her face, head and chest, although how she received the wounds remained unclear.

Sabattus and Maine State Police over the weekend confiscated a pickup and brought it to the state crime lab to be examined.

Investigators were not saying who the truck belongs to or where it was found.

Investigators had been searching for the truck since Stasulis was found injured.

Maine State Police Spokesman Stephen McCausland said only that the truck was “of some interest” to investigators.

However, by late Monday, it had not been directly linked to Stasulis’ injuries and no arrests had been made in the case.

“We’re still trying to determine what happened,” McCausland said. “We want to know why she was where she was and why she was in the condition she was in.”

Stasulis was found along a section of Route 126 near Long Beach by a couple driving past the area Friday morning, police said.

One investigator said the victim was in and out of consciousness when she was found, and that her injuries were believed to be life-threatening from the start.

Stasulis is co-owner of Leslie’s Place, a bar at 339 Lisbon St. in Lewiston. With more than a dozen detectives working the case, police said they are focusing on where Stasulis was and who she might have been with in the hours before she was hurt.

Stasulis has five children, at least some of whom live in the Sabattus area. Her family asked that no information about her condition be released to the press, although police said Stasulis was alive and in critical condition on Monday.

mlaflamme@sunjournal.com

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