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Christian Charles Nielsen was born on May 2, 1975, in Rumford, Maine.When he was four-years-old, Nielsen's parents divorced. Two years later, a Rumford district court judge ruled that Nielsen's father would gain custody of Nielsen and his little sister, stating that his mother did not have the emotional stability to care for young children.
Mrs. Cornish (first name unknown) is the first person on record to be executed by the state. [4] She and her husband, Richard Cornish, moved to Maine in 1636 shortly after getting married in Massachusetts and in 1644, Richard's body was found in a river with stab wounds and a bludgeoned head. Mrs. Cornish denied any responsibility for the murder upon being questioned, but evidence for a motive ...
The old Maine State Prison in Thomaston was moved to a new, larger prison in Warren in February 2002 because of the growing prisoner population. Some residents in Thomaston objected to the relocation of the prison out of their town, because it was a part of their history and local economy.
A federal judge identified Fournier as "a person of interest" in McLain's homicide when he was sentenced in 2009 to 6-1/2 years in prison for possession of child pornography, the Bangor Daily News ...
On July 6, 1988, twelve-year-old Sarah Cherry was abducted while babysitting at a home in a rural part of Bowdoin, Maine.A couple of items were left in the driveway of the house (the abduction scene) that linked Dennis Dechaine, a 31-year-old farmer, to the crime, such as an estimate with his name on it.
Mar. 4—THOMASTON, Maine — In the 20 years since the old Maine State Prison was torn down, the 15-acre parcel along Route 1 in Thomaston where it stood has remained undeveloped open space. Now ...
Many will go unreported — but it doesn't have to be that way. To assist reporters who want to continue covering this issue, we have put together the following tips: 1. Identify jails and police lockups in your community. There may be one county jail in your area but multiple police lockups.
[1] Shawshank State Prison also appears in several episodes of the Hulu original series Castle Rock. For the series, the showrunners used the West Virginia Penitentiary as the prison. “Part of the reason we chose the prison that we chose to shoot at was we loved the idea that there are houses literally in the shadow of the prison," said ...