Maine Unsolved Homicide Profiles Bangor

Mailing Address
240 Main Street, Bangor, ME 04401

Phone
207-947-7382

Emergencies
911

Fax
207-945-6824

Anonymous Tip Line
207-947-7382 ext. 6

Bangor Unsolved Homicides

Effie MacDonald was a 54-year-old chambermaid at the Bangor House when she was raped and strangled to death by her nylons in a room on the third floor of the downtown hotel on March 18, 1965. The slaying sent a wave of terror through the community, prompted by speculation that she was killed by the Boston Strangler, whose activity in Boston was just hitting a peak in 1965. While not considered unsolved murders, three people died during an apartment fire in downtown Bangor during February 1981 t	Patricia Oakes Bangor 1981 Arson Fire	Peter J. Bassett, 39, Aug. 13, 1988 was an off-duty Bangor mail carrier who was shot and killed outside Judy’s Bar and Grill on State Street on Aug. 13, 1988. Police found his body, still clothed in his postal uniform and with a gunshot wound to the head, several hours after he got off work.
Donald Morrill Bangor 1981 Arson Fire	Eight-month-old Aisha Mariah Dickson Jan. 6, 1995 was beaten to death in a Bald Mountain Drive apartment on Jan. 6, 1995. An autopsy revealed that nearly every bone in her 11-pound body had been broken in her short life, save for her spine. Her mother, father and grandmother were in the apartment at the time of her death, but each hired a lawyer and refused to talk to police, leaving investigators little to work with.	Jesse Eddins Bangor 1981 Arson Fire