BIDDEFORD — Maine State Police say the shooter or shooters responsible for a Sunday night double homicide in Biddeford remain at large. Lt. Brian McDonough with the Maine State Police told reporters at a Monday afternoon news conference at the 19 Western Ave. location of the crime that investigators are searching for four individuals — […]
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Family: 92-year-old man feared he’d be victimized
WATERVILLE — A 92-year-old whose death was declared a homicide by state police had feared a violent end, a family member said. The death of Aurele Fecteau, whose body was discovered in his home on Friday, was declared to be a homicide over the weekend, based on the medical examiner’s findings. Lorraine Fecteau, the victim’s […]
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Waterville death deemed a homicide
WATERVILLE — Someone took the life of a nonagenarian found deceased Friday afternoon in his Brooklyn Avenue home, according to Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety. “That determination was made by the State Medical Examiner’s Office Saturday, but no other information on the autopsy is being released at this time,” McCausland […]
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Sister of victim testifies in Bangor triple-murder trial
BANGOR — A reluctant witness took the stand Tuesday in a triple murder trial and told jurors she had been scared to tell police she had seen the men accused of killing her sister and boyfriend handle guns but was testifying about it because “my sister and Dan deserve some rest.” Katelyn Lugdon, 19, testified […]
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Jury selection begins Monday in triple homicide police called drug deal gone bad
Police investigate a vehicle that burned before dawn off Target Industrial Circle in Bangor in August 2012. After the fire was extinguished, three bodies were found inside the parked car. BANGOR — Jury selection is set to begin Monday morning at the Penobscot Judicial Center in one of the Queen City’s most gruesome homicide cases, in […]
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Proposal to create cold case squad, help solve McLain homicide revived, legislator says
EAST MILLINOCKET — A proposal killed by state legislative leaders that would create Maine’s first cold case squad to help solve a 33-year-old town homicide might have new life, Rep. Steve Stanley said Sunday. Officials at the legislative revisor’s office told Stanley, D-Medway, on Friday that he had seven days to collect a lead co-sponsor […]
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Funeral arrangements, Husson vigil for EL grad scheduled
BANGOR — As funeral arrangements and memorial plans were made final for the Husson University student who police found Monday strangled in her apartment, an instructor at the university said Brooke Locke had not shown any signs of being worried about her safety. “Bright, clever and always smiling, always cheerful. That’s how I remember her […]
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Defense: More to story in fatal Augusta stabbing
AUGUSTA (AP) — A lawyer hired to represent a Maine man charged with killing his 24-year-old girlfriend says the public is getting only one side of the story. Defense lawyer James Lawley called the death of Jillian Jones a tragedy and said that it appears that drug and alcohol played a role in her death […]
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Wisconsin man convicted of drunken-driving homicide that killed Rumford woman in 2011
DARLINGTON, Wis. — A Shullsburg, Wis., man was convicted of three felonies in Lafayette County Circuit Court on Tuesday in Darlington for a 2011 crash that killed a 21-year-old Rumford woman. In a report published Thursday in the Wisconsin State Journal, a jury found Kyle Monahan, 24, guilty of homicide by intoxicated use of a […]
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Hampton, N.H., death investigated as homicide
HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire attorney general says a man found dead at his home in Hampton was killed in a homicide. Authorities say an autopsy has determined that 56-year-old Robert Roderick died of multiple blunt impact injuries to his head. His death has been ruled a homicide. Roderick was found dead around […]