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In Maine, hope for answers in haunting death ; Town, mother seek answers in slaying Villagers fund autopsy on teen slain in 1980
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The Boston Globe
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September 2, 2008
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EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine - This quiet mill town on the edge of
Maine's northern wilderness has not been the same since it buried
Joyce McLain 28 years ago.
A promising and beautiful 16-year-old, McLain went out for a jog
one summer night in 1980 and never returned. Two days later, her
partially clothed body was discovered in a clearing on the edge of
town, badly beaten.
The brutality of the slaying horrified residents in this close-
knit hamlet of 1,800, where only one other homicide has been
recorded since it was incorporated in 1907. Worse, a killer was
never found, and something seeped into the consciousness of the
town. Mothers like Frances York started locking their doors. Kids
like ...
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