BANGOR — The local man accused of killing a 21-year-old Husson University student called 911 after the woman’s death on Nov. 18 and told the dispatcher he had “lost it” and “strangled my ex-girlfriend,” according to a transcript of the call. “What happened there?” the Bangor dispatcher asks. “Ah … pretty much lost it I […]
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Florida police ID suspect in 1989 slaying of Lewiston woman
DAYTONA BEACH SHORES — A 24-year-old murder case that left a restaurant server beaten to death has been solved by DNA leading investigators to a killer serving time in prison for a separate murder, police said Thursday. “It’s been quite a day for the city of Daytona Beach Shores. I am still in shock,” said […]
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Affidavit: Bangor man told police he bound Husson student with duct tape, strangled her
BANGOR — A 21-year-old Bangor man was indicted Wednesday on one count each of intentional or knowing murder, kidnapping and gross sexual assault by the Penobscot County grand jury in the strangulation death of a Husson University student earlier this month. An arraignment date for Zackery Mailloux has not been set. Mailloux was arrested and […]
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Husson students remember Brooke Locke as ‘always smiling, eager to help’
BANGOR — Brooke Locke gave Julya Spadaccini a tour of Husson University three years ago. Spadaccini, now a third-year student majoring in physical therapy, stayed with Locke for three days because the Southern California girl couldn’t get a flight out due to a blizzard. “If it wasn’t for Brooke and her smile and her telling […]
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Bangor homicide victim’s father: Fighting rage is a struggle
BANGOR — The father of Brooke Locke, the Husson University student who police found strangled Monday, said Friday that he was in California picking up a load of materials when he heard his daughter was dead. “The first thing I did was find the nearest Catholic church,” Bill Locke of Darby, Mont., said during a […]
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Jury convicts Tenants Harbor man of murder in drug dispute with friend
ROCKLAND — A Knox County jury deliberated for three hours Friday afternoon before convicting a Tenants Harbor man of murder in the shotgun slaying of his friend 14 months ago. Andrew J. Kierstead, 41, faces a minimum of 25 years in prison with a possibility of life behind bars. Kierstead admitted shooting his friend, but […]
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6 dead after roof collapse at Latvian store
RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Large sections of roof collapsed Thursday at a grocery store in Latvia’s capital, killing six and injuring at least 30, rescue officials said. Firefighters and soldiers were searching for survivors amid the debris. The collapse took down the Maxima supermarket’s high walls and windows in a ripple effect that filled the […]
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Husson student charged in murder of Edward Little grad
BANGOR — The woman found strangled in her Bangor apartment Monday is a graduate of Edward Little High School in Auburn. Police on Tuesday identified Brooke Locke, 21, as the woman found dead at the Essex Street apartment she shared with a 21-year-old local man who is charged with her murder. “An autopsy was performed […]
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Maine man on trial for allegedly killing dealer
ROCKLAND (AP) — Jury selection is getting underway in the trial of a Tenants Harbor man charged with killing his drug supplier for cutting him off. Andrew Kierstead is charged with murder in the September 2012 shooting death of Richard Mills outside Mills’ home in Cushing. Jury selection begins Monday in Rockland. Prosecutors said the […]
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Convicted murderer Dennis Dechaine’s lawyer says DNA evidence convincing enough to create reasonable doubt
PORTLAND — Dennis Dechaine’s legal team has the odds stacked against it in the convicted murderer’s attempt to use new DNA analysis to win a new trial. Dechaine, a Bowdoinham farmer, was convicted of murdering 12-year-old Sarah Cherry of Bowdoin in 1988. Dechaine is serving a life sentence at the Maine State Prison for the […]