Pamela Smart’s latest bid to reduce life sentence is dismissed

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Published
March 29, 2023

Pamela Smart’s latest bid to reduce life sentence is dismissed

The former high school staffer is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage lover to have her husband killed in 1990 in New Hampshire.
Published
March 10, 2023

Augusta man arrested by FBI agents in alleged $50,000 murder-for-hire scheme

Hyunkook Korsiak, 41, was arrested in New York this week after planning to kill a man in exchange for $50,000.
Published
March 8, 2023

Murder sentence tossed over Maine judge’s sentencing ‘conundrum’

A judge’s comments about the sentencing presented a problem because defendants are not supposed to be punished for exercising their constitutional right to a trial, the state's high court found.
Published
March 6, 2023

Woman found shot dead on Massachusetts logging road in 1978 is identified

For decades, the woman known as 'Granby Girl' was buried in a local cemetery with a headstone marked 'Unknown.'
Published
March 2, 2023

Man convicted in previous death pleads guilty in 1987 killing of Janet Brochu of Winslow

Gerald Goodale, 63, who's already serving a 75-year term, entered his plea Thursday in a Skowhegan courtroom and was sentenced to 32 years.
Published
February 6, 2023

Alex Murdaugh murder jury to hear financial crimes evidence

South Carolina prosecutors hope to show he was worried his alleged crimes were about to be discovered and that Murdaugh killed his family to get sympathy and buy time to cover up the missing money.
Published
January 27, 2023

Jury finds Gardiner man guilty of murder in shooting, machete attack

Dylan Ketcham, 23, was found guilty Friday of three crimes tied to a January 2020 incident in Gardiner. He faces a sentence of between 25 years to life in prison.
Published
January 26, 2023

Attorneys argue whether Gardiner shooting, machete attack was premeditated murder or self-defense as case heads to jury

The jury recessed Thursday before reaching a verdict about Dylan Ketcham, who is accused of killing Jordan Johnson and attempting to murder Caleb Trudeau in Gardiner in 2020.
Published
January 25, 2023

Jury in Gardiner man’s murder trial sent home after video, recording system crashes at Capital Judicial Center

This is not the first time the Augusta courthouse has experienced the major technical failure, which prevented proceedings from being electronically recorded and blocked lawyers' ability to show evidence on monitors, says Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy, who is calling for the system to be replaced.
Published
January 24, 2023

Victim testifies he thought he was going to die after Gardiner shooting

Caleb Trudeau testified Tuesday that Dylan Ketcham, who is on trial for murder and attempted murder, shot their friend Jordan Johnson then attacked him with machete in January of 2020.