AUGUSTA — Maine lawmakers and parents are planning to gather at the State House to lobby for a bill that would create a special state unit dedicated to investigating unsolved homicides. A bill that would fund the roughly $500,000 cold case unit will be considered by the Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Among those supporting the […]
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State seeks federal grant for cold case squad
AUGUSTA — Representatives in Washington are urging the federal government to provide funding to allow the state to create a cold case homicide squad. Democratic Reps. Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree recently sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asking for support for Maine’s application for a federal grant. Republican Gov. Paul LePage […]
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‘This light bulb went on’: Nurse recalls identifying arsenic as poison in New Sweden case, 11 years later
PORTLAND — More than a decade has passed since the April day when 16 churchgoers in the tiny farming community of New Sweden drank poison from their coffee cups. Rose Tanguay was 300 miles away that day, but she remembers it vividly. She was working at the Northern New England Poison Center in Portland, the […]
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New true-crime TV show to feature 2009 murders in Webster Plantation
WEBSTER PLANTATION — A new true-crime cable television show will recount the slayings of a couple in their home more than four years ago and the hunt for and conviction of their killer in its first episode Monday. Nathaneal K. Nightingale, 35, of Burlington is serving a 40-year sentence in the deaths of Michael “Big […]
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Proposal to create cold case squad, help solve McLain homicide revived, legislator says
EAST MILLINOCKET — A proposal killed by state legislative leaders that would create Maine’s first cold case squad to help solve a 33-year-old town homicide might have new life, Rep. Steve Stanley said Sunday. Officials at the legislative revisor’s office told Stanley, D-Medway, on Friday that he had seven days to collect a lead co-sponsor […]
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Lawmaker plans to keep pressing for cold-case bill
EAST MILLINOCKET — State Rep. Steve Stanley, D-Medway, will appeal a Legislative Council decision rejecting one of two bills he proposed that are aimed at helping solve the 33-year-old murder of Joyce McLain, he said Tuesday. The Legislative Council voted 6-4 against taking up during the next Legislative session Stanley’s proposal that the state form a cold […]
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State mulling appeal to ‘Cold Justice’ TV show for help on 33-year-old homicide
EAST MILLINOCKET — The 33-year-old unsolved homicide of Joyce McLain might soon get some Cold Justice. Deputy Attorney General William Stokes confirmed Friday that his office and state police are considering turning to the true-life television series to help solve McLain’s 33-year-old homicide. “We are certainly not ruling it out,” Stokes said Friday. “We want […]