Filmmaker Todd Nilssen talks about the film he made about the former Elan School in Poland during Thursday’s Great Falls Forum at the Lewiston Public Library. LEWISTON — Todd Nilssen was 17 when he was taken from his New York home by people he didn’t know and forced into the Elan School in Poland. He […]
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Families vent frustration at Maine’s cold-case unit, push new victim’s rights bill
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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Police: Death of Elan School student is ‘priority’ for state investigators
LEWISTON — State police are looking into the 1982 death of an Elan School student, calling it “a priority” for the Southern Maine Major Crimes Unit. The death of Phil Williams Jr. was the focus of a Sun Journal story last weekend. “It’s open, active; we’ll see how it plays out,” Lt. Brian McDonough said […]
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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.