PARIS — The state rested its case against Kristina Lowe on Tuesday morning after presenting three full days of eyewitness testimony that Lowe was drinking for hours before a fatal accident that killed Oxford Hills teens Rebecca Mason and Logan Dam, and that she told her friends how sorry she was that she had been […]
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Warrant ordered for father of Kristina Lowe
Local police were searching Tuesday night for Earl Lowe, the father of Kristina Lowe, who is on trial in Oxford County Superior Court for vehicular manslaughter. Sheriff Wayne Gallant said a bench warrant had been issued for Lowe for contempt of court for not showing up at the proceedings to testify. Gallant said Oxford, Paris […]
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Witness: Kristina Lowe was driving the car when two passengers killed
PARIS — A question asked since the crash that took the lives of Oxford Hills teens Rebecca Mason and Logan Dam in 2012 has been: Who was driving? On Monday, Jacob Skaff testified it was not him. The 2002 Subaru Impreza involved in the crash had a five-speed manual transmission, and he testified he doesn’t […]
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Kristina Lowe jury hears from friend of accident victim
PARIS — Rebecca Mason’s childhood friend testified Monday morning in the manslaughter trial of Kristina Lowe, the young woman accused of killing Mason in a car accident in January 2012. Baylee Heikkinen, who is now 16, told the jury that Mason had been at her home the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2012, and had wanted […]
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Lowe’s attorney questions motives of prosecution witness
PARIS — Defense attorney James Howaniec stopped just short of accusing 22-year-old Megan Plummer of conspiring with her younger sister to lie and convince a jury that Kristina Lowe was responsible for an accident in 2012 that killed Rebecca Mason, 16, and Logan Dam, 19. Active-Retired Justice Robert Clifford quickly shut Howaniec down, but the […]
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Manslaughter testimony focuses on Lowe’s statements after crash
PARIS — On the second full day of the Kristina Lowe double-manslaughter trial, two police officers, a nurse and an emergency medical technician each testified that Lowe denied driving the car that crashed on Jan. 7, 2012, killing 16-year-old Rebecca Mason and 19-year-old Logan Dam. Tri-Town Rescue EMT Kevin Davis said that Lowe told him […]
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Manslaughter trial testimony recounts night of fatal crash
PARIS — In a dramatic demonstration of how far Kristina Lowe and her friend, Jacob Skaff, walked after they left the scene of an accident that killed two Oxford Hills teens, Maine State Police Trooper Thomas Welch held an oversized aerial photograph of the route the two walked and he counted — out loud — […]
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Prosecution, defense open arguments in Lowe’s manslaughter trial
PARIS — When the vehicular manslaughter trial of Kristina Lowe started Thursday morning, Assistant District Attorney Richard Beauchesne said the trial wasn’t about Lowe. It was about Rebecca Mason and Logan Dam, the two backseat passengers killed Jan. 7, 2012, when Lowe lost control of her car in West Paris and crashed into a stand […]
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High court hears arguments in West Paris teen’s manslaughter case
PORTLAND — The state’s highest court heard arguments Monday on both sides of a trial judge’s decision not to allow statements made by a West Paris teenager about texting while driving at her trial on two manslaughter charges. Justices on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court also heard from a prosecutor and defense attorney as to […]
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State to appeal suppression of teen driver’s statements in West Paris manslaughter case
PORTLAND — The state’s appeal over a judge’s decision to throw out statements a teen driver from West Paris made hours after a crash that killed two of her passengers last year will go before Maine’s highest court. State police say Kristina Lowe of West Paris, who was 19 at the time, told police before […]