Man arrested in 1980 murder of Maine high school student, Maine State Badge said Friday they accept fabricated an arrest in the 35-year-old baffling annihilation of top academy apprentice Joyce McLain.
Philip Scott Fournier, 55, of East Millinocket, was answerable with murder, badge said. Fournier had been advised a being of absorption in the annihilation for abounding years and was questioned several times afterwards McLain’s death, WGME-TV reported.
Fournier, who was 19 at the time of the killing, was appointed into Penobscot County Jail at 1 p.m.
McLain was 16-year-old at the time of her death. She was endure apparent on the night of Aug. 8, 1980 while she was out for a jog. Two canicule later, she was begin in a allowance abreast Schenck Top Academy in Millinocket. Her arch and close had been addled by a edgeless object, according to WGME-TV.
At atomic two assemblage said Fournier was abreast the clue area McLain was jogging and abreast area her physique was discovered. Badge said she was a admired apprentice and that Fournier knew the McLain family.
WFVX-TV reported, citation an affidavit, Fournier accepted to the annihilation several times, cogent a pastor that he did something “beyond comprehension.” The affirmation aswell data his declared acknowledgment to a acquaintance adage a accumulation dead McLain and he was affected to participate in the barbarian act. He aswell allegedly said the boyhood was apprenticed with her easily angry abaft her back.
State Badge Chief Col. Robert Williams said added than anything, the connected chain into the algid case led to the arrest, according to WGME-TV.
"In 2008, Joyce's physique was exhumed and taken to the medical examiner's appointment for reexamination," Williams said. "Since that time the State Badge abomination lab and a aggregation of detectives from the above crimes assemblage ace formed carefully with the Attorney General's office. They accept assiduously advised all the old and new evidence. And as a aftereffect of that accept arrested Scott Fournier."
Williams said he batten to McLain’s mother and said she was adequate by Fournier’s arrest.
WGME-TV appear that Fournier has above-mentioned aesthetics for control of adolescent pornography, burglarly and theft.
Fournier is accepted to accomplish a cloister actualization in Bangor on Monday.
Philip Scott Fournier, 55, of East Millinocket, was answerable with murder, badge said. Fournier had been advised a being of absorption in the annihilation for abounding years and was questioned several times afterwards McLain’s death, WGME-TV reported.
Fournier, who was 19 at the time of the killing, was appointed into Penobscot County Jail at 1 p.m.
McLain was 16-year-old at the time of her death. She was endure apparent on the night of Aug. 8, 1980 while she was out for a jog. Two canicule later, she was begin in a allowance abreast Schenck Top Academy in Millinocket. Her arch and close had been addled by a edgeless object, according to WGME-TV.
At atomic two assemblage said Fournier was abreast the clue area McLain was jogging and abreast area her physique was discovered. Badge said she was a admired apprentice and that Fournier knew the McLain family.
WFVX-TV reported, citation an affidavit, Fournier accepted to the annihilation several times, cogent a pastor that he did something “beyond comprehension.” The affirmation aswell data his declared acknowledgment to a acquaintance adage a accumulation dead McLain and he was affected to participate in the barbarian act. He aswell allegedly said the boyhood was apprenticed with her easily angry abaft her back.
State Badge Chief Col. Robert Williams said added than anything, the connected chain into the algid case led to the arrest, according to WGME-TV.
"In 2008, Joyce's physique was exhumed and taken to the medical examiner's appointment for reexamination," Williams said. "Since that time the State Badge abomination lab and a aggregation of detectives from the above crimes assemblage ace formed carefully with the Attorney General's office. They accept assiduously advised all the old and new evidence. And as a aftereffect of that accept arrested Scott Fournier."
Williams said he batten to McLain’s mother and said she was adequate by Fournier’s arrest.
WGME-TV appear that Fournier has above-mentioned aesthetics for control of adolescent pornography, burglarly and theft.
Fournier is accepted to accomplish a cloister actualization in Bangor on Monday.
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