Stephen Bouchard, 63, is charged with murder in the death of his then-girlfriend Alice Hawkes at their Westbrook apartment; he has pleaded not guilty.
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Here’s how new DNA testing led to an arrest in 1993 Kittery cold case
Daniel Jolly, 59, has been charged with murder in the death of 73-year-old Maxine Bitomski. His bail hearing on Thursday offered more insight into the state’s decades-long investigation.
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The grisly history behind the site of Amazon’s proposed Gorham warehouse
The lot in Gorham where Amazon plans to build a distribution facility has a gruesome past: a murder that may not have been the killer’s first.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Judge denies bail to Maine man accused of murder in 1987 cold case
Attorneys for Stephen Bouchard have appealed the bail order. Bouchard is accused of killing his former girlfriend, Alice Hawkes.
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Prime suspect admits to killing teen Natalee Holloway in 2005 in Aruba
Holloway went missing during a high school graduation trip with classmates and was last seen leaving a bar with Joran van der Sloot.
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Former Farmington woman identified as Jane Doe killed in 1981
Investigators tried several methods to identify the woman struck and killed by a car, but it was DNA analysis that has now brought closure to the family of Michele ‘Mimi’ Oakes Boutilier-Gautreaux.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, New England, News
A baby died outside in the cold in 1985. Now police say her mother’s to blame
Maine State Police have charged Lee Ann Daigle with murder in the death of Baby Jane Doe. They say genealogical DNA identified her as the newborn’s mother. But her daughter says that she blocked out memory of the traumatic event and didn’t know she was pregnant until she gave birth.
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Maine’s top court upholds guilty plea in 1979 cold-case infant killing
The court declines to overrule a lower court, meaning Burton Hagar will continue to serve 15 years for manslaughter in the death of his son.
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What happened to Angel?
Angel Torres was 21 years old when he was last seen in Biddeford. His parents and police believe he was likely murdered but they don’t know why, and they don’t have a body that might yield clues.
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Nearly 40 years after infant’s death in Brunswick, father may face murder charges
PORTLAND — A retired Maine medical examiner told a judge in Cumberland County on Tuesday that she would reclassify the 1979 death of an infant in Brunswick from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome to asphyxiation, a move that the state seeks so it could pursue a criminal case. Nathan Hagar, who was 4 months old, died […]