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 […]
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Police ‘a long way from knowing’ motive in Aroostook County double homicide
HOULTON — The prosecutor assembling the case against a local man charged with two counts of murder said Thursday that investigators don’t know why Matthew Davis would have killed an Oakfield couple earlier this week. “We are going to look at every aspect of the case,” Deputy Attorney General William Stokes said, “but I think […]
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State mulling appeal to ‘Cold Justice’ TV show for help on 33-year-old homicide
EAST MILLINOCKET — The 33-year-old unsolved homicide of Joyce McLain might soon get some Cold Justice. Deputy Attorney General William Stokes confirmed Friday that his office and state police are considering turning to the true-life television series to help solve McLain’s 33-year-old homicide. “We are certainly not ruling it out,” Stokes said Friday. “We want […]
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Judge to decide whether to try homicide suspects separately or together
BANGOR, Maine — Nicolle A. Lugdon hysterically begged for her life after watching Nicholas Sexton shoot and kill Daniel T. Borders and Lucas A. Tuscano, according to information made public Thursday during a hearing to determine if Sexton, 32, of Warwick, R.I., and his co-defendant, Randall “Ricky” Daluz, 35, of Brockton, Mass., will be tried […]
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2-year-old boy abducted from RI home found safe
JOHNSTON, R.I. (AP) — A 2-year-old boy kidnapped from a Rhode Island home where police made an early morning discovery of two bodies was found Sunday night “in good health,” police said. Johnston Deputy Police Chief Daniel Parrillo said the boy was found in Providence, but he would not provide any other details on the […]