AUBURN — It took a jury 13 hours to convict Michael McNaughton of murder and hindering apprehension Monday in the brutal 2013 slaying of 20-year-old Romeo Parent of Lewiston. The jury foreman delivered the verdicts in Androscoggin County Superior Court at 3:15 p.m. on the third day of deliberations. Witnesses testified for 10 days over three […]
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Michael McNaughton’s murder trial: Jury deliberations continue Friday
AUBURN — A jury of five men and seven women deliberated Thursday the fate of Michael McNaughton, who is charged with murdering 20-year-old Romeo Parent of Lewiston in April 2013. Jurors discussed the case for about an hour-and-a-half before Androscoggin County Superior Court Justice MaryGay Kennedy sent them home for the day at 5 p.m. […]
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Defense hints at false confession in Parent murder
AUBURN — An attorney who specializes in the study of false confessions said Wednesday that innocent suspects sometimes admit to crimes they didn’t commit if police interrogators refuse to accept their denials and ply them with a more morally acceptable explanation of the crime. Alan Hirsch, who teaches justice and law studies at Williams College, […]
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Victim’s DNA found on defendant’s screwdriver
AUBURN — A forensic analyst at the state’s crime lab said Tuesday that 20-year-old Romeo Parent’s DNA was found lodged in a crevice on a screwdriver identified by several witnesses as belonging to Michael McNaughton, who is charged with Parent’s murder. The jury listened to crime lab workers describe at length the process of identifying […]
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In police interview, McNaughton admits slaying Lewiston man
AUBURN — Michael McNaughton said on video in court Monday that it was only after 20-year-old Romeo Parent threw himself back onto McNaughton’s screwdriver as he strangled him from behind with a garrote that McNaughton became “scared and lost and only had one direction” to go, which was to kill Parent. Maine State Police Detective […]
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Jury hears police interview Lewiston man in murder trial
AUBURN — A jury heard a Lewiston man charged with murder speak in court for the first time Thursday. The jury also got a glimpse of 26-year-old Michael McNaughton’s bare torso in a videotaped interview in which police took photographs of scratches to his face, neck, arms and hands and asked him to surrender his […]
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More witnesses say McNaughton confessed to killing Romeo Parent
Robert Mayer, 24, of Oxford said he had been staying in a Lewiston apartment in April 2013 when McNaughton, 26, of Lewiston came to his apartment with a mutual friend. McNaughton told Mayer he “murdered this kid for snitching,” Mayer said. Another witness, Stephen Demings of Auburn, said in Androscoggin County Superior Court on the […]
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Witness says alternative suspect confesses to killing
AUBURN — A witness testified Tuesday that William True said he killed Romeo Parent, who had implicated True a week earlier in a burglary. Eric Leighton, 19, of Auburn also said in Androscoggin County Superior Court that Sebastian Moody had confessed to him to killing Parent, 20, of Lewiston. In addition, Leighton told a jury […]
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Witness at murder trial describes killing techniques of tool found at scene
AUBURN — A woman testified Friday that Michael McNaughton was at her Lewiston apartment last year when he handed her a screwdriver and explained how he could “horribly and painfully kill somebody” three ways with the tool. Katie Mae Brown said in Androscoggin County Superior Court that McNaughton, 26, of Lewiston described for her in […]
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Witness tells jury Lewiston man confessed to strangling 20-year-old
AUBURN — Nathan Morton testified Thursday that Michael McNaughton told him he stabbed Romeo Parent in the back of the neck with a screwdriver and strangled him seven times with a homemade garrote because he wouldn’t die. Morton, 25, of Greene is the state’s star witness in McNaughton’s murder trial in Androscoggin County Superior Court. […]