maine western mountains quadruple homicide.
So the big news here in Maine is the quadruple homicide that took place over the weekend in Newry. Newry is about 70 miles from where i live (just go east towards the coast to my town), and right in the area where friends of mine have a really lovely cabin in the woods.
Victims identified, cook charged in Newry slayings
By Bangor Daily News Staff
The Associated Press
NEWRY -- A bed and breakfast owner and her daughter were among four people killed in a Labor Day weekend murder spree by a 31-year-old cook who had been living in the converted farmhouse, investigators said Tuesday.
Christian Nielsen, 31, told detectives he killed the four over a four-day period starting with a local man on Friday and then the owner of the bed and breakfast where he was staying in Newry two days later, according to court records.
The daughter of the bed and breakfast owner and a friend were killed when they arrived there unexpectedly on Monday, the records said.
Nielsen, who was charged with four counts of murder, smiled as he was leaving Oxford County Superior Court, where he was ordered held without bail.
State police were alerted Monday evening by family members who arrived at the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast to find a woman's body and blood outside. Nielsen's father told troopers that he thought his son had committed the killing, according to documents.
Detectives arriving found the bodies of Black Bear owner Julie Bullard, 65, her daughter Selby, 30, and a third woman, Cindy Beatson, 43, all outside the home.
Christian Nielsen later took a detective to the location of a fourth victim, James Whitehurst, 50, whose remains were north of Grafton Notch State Park, 10 to 15 miles away in the neighboring town of Upton, the documents said.
Nielsen had recently been renting a room at the Black Bear while working at another bed and breakfast in nearby Bethel.
Nielsen had a history of driving offenses that included an arrest for drunken driving, but nothing more serious, Farmington police said. His license was revoked a year ago, said Farmington Lt. Jack Peck.
Maine is a state known for its low crime rate, so the killings came as a shock.
Maine's last quadruple murder occurred on Dec. 3, 1992, when Virgil Smith set fire to a tenement at the foot of Portland's Munjoy Hill neighborhood, killing a woman, two men and a 10-month-old baby. McCausland said Smith was upset after his girlfriend broke up with him.
According to a news conference that was just on tv, the bodies of the women were dismembered and the man's set on fire.
Victims identified, cook charged in Newry slayings
By Bangor Daily News Staff
The Associated Press
NEWRY -- A bed and breakfast owner and her daughter were among four people killed in a Labor Day weekend murder spree by a 31-year-old cook who had been living in the converted farmhouse, investigators said Tuesday.
Christian Nielsen, 31, told detectives he killed the four over a four-day period starting with a local man on Friday and then the owner of the bed and breakfast where he was staying in Newry two days later, according to court records.
The daughter of the bed and breakfast owner and a friend were killed when they arrived there unexpectedly on Monday, the records said.
Nielsen, who was charged with four counts of murder, smiled as he was leaving Oxford County Superior Court, where he was ordered held without bail.
State police were alerted Monday evening by family members who arrived at the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast to find a woman's body and blood outside. Nielsen's father told troopers that he thought his son had committed the killing, according to documents.
Detectives arriving found the bodies of Black Bear owner Julie Bullard, 65, her daughter Selby, 30, and a third woman, Cindy Beatson, 43, all outside the home.
Christian Nielsen later took a detective to the location of a fourth victim, James Whitehurst, 50, whose remains were north of Grafton Notch State Park, 10 to 15 miles away in the neighboring town of Upton, the documents said.
Nielsen had recently been renting a room at the Black Bear while working at another bed and breakfast in nearby Bethel.
Nielsen had a history of driving offenses that included an arrest for drunken driving, but nothing more serious, Farmington police said. His license was revoked a year ago, said Farmington Lt. Jack Peck.
Maine is a state known for its low crime rate, so the killings came as a shock.
Maine's last quadruple murder occurred on Dec. 3, 1992, when Virgil Smith set fire to a tenement at the foot of Portland's Munjoy Hill neighborhood, killing a woman, two men and a 10-month-old baby. McCausland said Smith was upset after his girlfriend broke up with him.
According to a news conference that was just on tv, the bodies of the women were dismembered and the man's set on fire.