Cold Case News
Michaud, LePage, Cutler say they support state cold case squad
By Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff
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Posted July 30, 2014, at 8:39 a.m.
Last modified July 30, 2014, at 1:36 p.m.
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud promised to fund the state’s first cold-case squad to investigate homicides if elected governor, saying the issue “hits close to home” because of ...
Funding for Maine Cold Case Homicide Unit
By Office of Rep Michaud
Apr 16, 2014 - 12:07:12 AM
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WASHINGTON, DC -- Congressman Mike Michaud is working with Attorney General Janet Mills to help secure federal funding for efforts to launch a homicide squad dedicating to investigating and solving the more than 100 cold cases in Maine. Michaud has long-supported state legislation introduced by Rep. Stephen Stanley (D-Medway) that would establish a unit equipped to investigate cold cases. The legislation was inspired by the 1980 murder of an East Millinocket teenage girl.
Cold case squad proposed for Maine
By Shelley Wigglesworth
February 27, 2014 2:00 AM
AUGUSTA — A hearing was held in Augusta Feb. 20 on a bill that, if passed, would create a cold case unit within the Maine attorney general's office — and perhaps finally provide an answer to who killed Kennebunk's Mary Tanner in 1978.
All seats were taken in room 438 at the state house as friends and family members of unsolved murder victims waited patiently for hours to testify on the importance of having an active cold case squad in Maine.
