ROCKLAND (AP) — A Maine State Prison inmate already serving a 40-year sentence for killing an ex-girlfriend has pleaded no contest to using an electric guitar to fatally beat another prisoner to death last year. Guy Hunnewell had previously pleaded insanity in connection with the June death of with the 57-year-old Alan Powell, but changed […]
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Bangor man pleads guilty to manslaughter in girlfriend’s death
BANGOR (AP) — A judge has accepted a Bangor man’s guilty plea to manslaughter in the killing his 49-year-old girlfriend. Superior Court Justice Ann Murray declined to accept David Coon’s plea earlier this month because he was too emotional, crying out that his girlfriend’s death “wasn’t supposed to happen.” But she agreed to accept his […]
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Judge continues hearing despite plea
BANGOR — An emotional David Coon pleaded guilty Thursday at the Penobscot Judicial Center to manslaughter in the May asphyxiation death of his girlfriend, Sherry Clifford, but the judge declined to accept his plea and continued the hearing after Coon denied touching Clifford’s throat. Dr. Mark Flomenbaum, deputy chief medical examiner, determined that Clifford’s death […]
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The killing of Romeo Parent
AUBURN — Nothing about the slaying of Romeo Parent was simple. In early April, police began to hear rumblings that harm may have come to the 20-year-old Lewiston man. For days, they searched, following up leads and questioning potential witnesses. On April 12, a Maine State Police diver descended into the frigid waters of Jug […]
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Police identify two people killed in apparent stabbing, standoff in Old Town
OLD TOWN — A Maine State Police trooper shot and killed a man who reportedly stabbed his girlfriend to death Wednesday night in a downtown apartment. Police identified the couple on Thursday morning as April Haskell, 35, and Christopher Ouellette, 28, both from the Old Town area, according to Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman […]