WINTHROP — District Attorney Maeghan Maloney speaking on the North Pond Hermit case at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, at Bailey Public Library.
The event is part of the ongoing Winthrop Lakes Region Forum and is sponsored by the Winthrop Public Library Foundation.
Maloney prosecuted the case of Christopher Thomas Knight who lived almost without human contact for 27 years in the North Pond area of the Belgrade Lakes.
She will also discuss Michael Finkel’s new book “The Stranger in the Woods.”
Maloney is district attorney for Kennebec and Somerset counties. As a child, she lived in the Tall Pines Low Income Housing Project in Lewiston until her family moved to Turner, where she graduated from Leavitt High School in 1989.
She received scholarships to attend Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School. After graduation, she worked as a prosecutor in Portland, Oregon, starting in the trial unit until she was promoted to run the forfeiture unit.
Maloney spent a year in Asia working to stop domestic violence on a Luce Fellowship. In Maine, she worked as an assistant attorney general before being elected to the Maine legislature.
District Attorney Maeghan Maloney
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