AUGUSTA — In 1980, a dog found Wanda-Jean Mitchell’s head in the woods in Poland and brought it home to his owners. A police search party found her body two days later. The teen had been missing nearly a year, since the day before her 15th birthday. She’d run away from home. Sheila Simoneau said […]
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State police: Elan student’s death investigation continues
Seven months after opening an investigation into the sudden death of an Elan School student back in 1982, police said this week the case remains open and active. Pam Newell, that student’s sister, is ready for answers. “I don’t have any,” the Lewiston woman said. Newell’s brother, Phil Williams Jr., was 15 when he died […]
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Police say investigation into Elan student’s death nearly complete
Nearly 34 years after Elan School student Phil Williams Jr. was buried in an unmarked grave, his sister Pam Newell and their father this weekend visited a headstone bought for him by strangers through a GoFundMe campaign. “It was closure for us, partially,” Newell said Monday. “I tried to climb in the grave with him […]
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His family asks: What really happened to Phil at the Elan School?
For 33 years, Pam Newell thought her brother died of a freak brain aneurysm while he was a student at the infamous Elan School in Poland. Two weeks ago, a stranger turned up and told her there’s something she should know.