SOUTHWEST HARBOR (AP) – Homicide investigators returned Tuesday to an oceanfront cottage on Mount Desert Island in search of clues to the slaying of a retired mathematics professor who was found severely injured on her kitchen floor.
The death of Jacqueline Evans, 83, was ruled a homicide Monday based on the autopsy report from the state medical examiner’s office, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety.
Investigators have declined to comment on the cause of death or to speculate on a motive for the slaying. A dive team was involved in the case but police would not identify the object of its search.
Evans, who lived alone at the home on Alder Lane, was found unconscious or semiconscious Friday after a friend who had come to the house to help with errands grew worried because the door was locked and called for assistance.
After police and emergency medical technicians arrived, Evans was transported to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, where she died Sunday.
Evans, a former mathematics professor from Massachusetts, had lived in Southwest Harbor for 30 years. She held a doctorate from Harvard and wrote a book about mathematics in 1970.
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