Maine cold case – CRIMEandSTUFF

175. Maine’s ‘coldest’ case Danny Wood Part 1

Posted on June 1, 2025June 2, 2025 by maureenmilliken

In July 1954, 12-year-old Danny Wood Jr. told his mom in Gray, Maine, that he was going fishing with a friend. Ten minutes later, he called her from a payphone three miles away, in town, telling her he was going to help a door-to-door salesman. She told him not to go with the guy, but Danny was never seen again. This is Part 1 of what’s often called “Maine’s coldest case.” Though it really isn’t. Rebecca presents.

Maureen gives the Hulu doc series “Hey Beautiful: Anatomy of a Romance Scam” the NNW review treatment.

We also update Episodes 77 and 95 (the Police War on Black Women and Johnetta Carr), Episode 144 (James Cameron the Worst Kind of Criminal), Episode 152 (Maine’s 2023 homicide list) and Episode 174 (Kathleen McLean murder).

If you’re interested in checking out Maureen’s Maine-based Bernadette “Bernie” O’Dea mystery novels, including the just-released Dying for News, click here.

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Episode 108: Joyce McLain and the long confession

Posted on September 21, 2021 by maureenmilliken

After Joyce McLain was murdered while she was out for a run in East Millinocket, Maine, in August 1980, the investigation took awhile, but it seemed seemed like cops might’ve finally had their guy when Scott Fornier confessed in May 1981. So why did it take more than 37 years to but him behind bars?

We also have brief updates on Sarah Everard and Maura Murray.

And Rebecca gives the NNW treatment to the Netflix show “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Bentrayal and Greed.”

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Episode 43: Who left Ashley Ouellette in the middle of the road?

Posted on February 4, 2018 by maureenmilliken

On February 10, 1999, at about 4 a.m., the body of Ashley Ouellette, 15, was found on the center line of the Pine Point Road in Scarborough, Maine. She’d been neatly placed there after being murdered.

Some 19 years later, police are still looking for her killer.

Join us for Episode 43.

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Episode 26: Blanche Kimball, the cold case chewing gum murder

Posted on May 30, 2017May 31, 2017 by maureenmilliken

When Blanche Kimball was stabbed to death in her home in Augusta, Maine, in 1976, police were stymied. She’d been stabbed 44 times and left to die, only found by police after neighbors became concerned at least a week after she was killed.

Gary Raub — then Gary Wilson — was at the time tearing an alcohol and violence-fueled path through central Maine, but somehow avoided serious attention from the police.

The case was one of Maine’s oldest cold cases. But in 2012, DNA and some smart cross-country detective work and, ultimately, a piece of apple pie flavored chewing gum, led to Raub’s arrest 3,000 miles away.