Life In Prison - Homeless Man Charged In 1976 Augusta Murder The Kennebec Journal - Augusta

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By ccrosby@centralmaine.com Staff Writer

and Betty Adams badams@centralmaine.com Staff Writer

AUGUSTA DNA from a displaced Seattle a lot of people's chewing gum aided head bodies to help arrest that male in connection that has a 36-year-old Augusta cool circumstance murder.

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COLD CASES

The subsequent is really a listing of community chilly circumstances which have lead in a conviction:

* Jay Stephen Mercier has been indicted in September 2011 with the July 1980 murder regarding 20-year-old Rita St. Peter of Anson. Her system ended up being observed off Campground Road within Anson about July your five in which year. She had recently been beaten, the woman skull fractured in addition to police explained the lady made an appearance to own also been run over. Mercier ended up being a suspect in the beginning, nonetheless this individual seemed to be billed after DNA coming from fluids accumulated out of St. Peter's entire body printed Mercier. His DNA seemed to be gathered from your smoke booty he smoked cigarettes during an interview inside January 2010. Mercier has been convicted involving killing final month in addition to faces 25 decades to existence in prison.

* Thomas Mitchell Jr. has been indicted with September 2006 inside the Jan. 6, 1983, stabbing death regarding 23-year-old Judith Flagg with the woman outlying Fayette home. Mitchell in whose papa formerly held your home were considered as your perfect think long in advance of tests associated DNA discovered less than Flagg's fingernails to be able to Mitchell. After your jury guilty him, your dog seemed to be sentenced with August 2009 for you to your life throughout prison without parole.

* Albert P. Cochran seemed to be imprisoned throughout Florida on March 17, 1998, and costed using the Nov. 23, 1976, slaying regarding Janet Baxter throughout Norridgewock. DNA tests corresponding sperm selections found in Baxter's body and the hairs taken from Cochran. Cochran was sentenced to be able to your life throughout living hell around 1999.

* Michael M. Boucher Sr. seemed to be priced by using murder throughout 1988 15 decades once Debra Dill, 18, connected with West Gardiner, had been determined bludgeoned to be able to death. Her system ended up being found on Sept. 16, 1973. State police said the woman's motor vehicle appeared to be made off the highway in addition to in to a forget on a camp highway on the Litchfield-Monmouth line. Court information in case claim Boucher told people in 1981 that will he / she possessed mortally wounded Dill. He ended up being guilty associated with her murder and also sentenced in order to lifestyle around dejecting prison with July 1991.

* Norma Small ended up being busted throughout May 2001 on the murder charge from the demise associated with the woman husband, Sonny Grotton, at his property inside Belfast with Dec. 16, 1983. She was incurred along with hiring somebody in order to murder your ex boyfriend in addition to ended up being guilty along with sentenced for you to 60 many years within prison.

State and Augusta court arrest busted Gary Sanford Raub, 63, on Monday nights and also recharged him with all the 1976 fatal stabbing involving 70-year-old Blanche M. Kimball on the inside the woman State Street home.

The Kimball murder is actually the particular older unsolved homicide event that will end in charges in state history, court arrest said Tuesday.

Raub was known as Gary Robert Wilson at that time and were living with Kimball's home. He is usually listed since some sort of transient within the Kennebec County Superior Court complaint asking your pet with murder as well as criminal homicide in the first degree. The issue claims Raub "knowingly inflicted great real suffering" with Kimball, a new retired dental technician as well as functional breastfeed whom from time to time required in boarders.

Raub who in the police-provided picture carries a large bandage on his / her scalp and also a gray beard along with crimson streaks is supposed to help to make his initial court appearance today in order to start that extradition process to come back in order to Maine.

He seemed to be your think from early on, although police arrest decided not to develop the facts for you to ask for him, as outlined by judge documents.

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