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Originally called Panowamskit by the local Indians, meaning 'where the ledges spread out', a reference to the riverbed with its rapids and drops.
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FILE 522 / 24 August 2024 / 71 MIN / express
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Originally called Panowamskit by the local Indians, meaning 'where the ledges spread out', a reference to the riverbed with its rapids and drops.
about 0:04:40The French established a Catholic mission there in the 1680s.
about 0:04:59Great Britain took over from the French following the Seven Years War, almost 100 years later.
about 0:05:07It was settled by the English, and the name Old Town derives from 'Indian Old Town', the English name for the largest Indian village in the area.
about 0:05:12Originally called Panowamskit by the local Indians, meaning 'where the ledges spread out', a reference to the riverbed with its rapids and drops.
about 0:04:40The French established a Catholic mission there in the 1680s.
about 0:04:59Great Britain took over from the French following the Seven Years War, almost 100 years later.
about 0:05:07It was settled by the English, and the name Old Town derives from 'Indian Old Town', the English name for the largest Indian village in the area.
about 0:05:12The site of that Indian village is now known as Indian Island.
about 0:05:25Best known for the Old Town Canoe Company, which has manufactured canoes and kayaks there for over a hundred years.
about 0:05:30The University of Maine is nearby in Orono, so many residents work there.
about 0:05:36The town is also home to a big paper mill.
about 0:06:01"7,415"
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"$43,474"
Comparison: "well below the national average, usually $69,000". Direction: below.
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"$198,200"
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4.0 / 5 · average of 3
“Loved living there for three years with no issues other than buying the green rubbish bags; suggests putting a Glad bag inside the green bag and recommends River Fest in the fall.”about 0:06:08
“The best place until the dump appeared; not sure it is safe to live near it, can sometimes smell it, a combination of poop and pine cleaner.”about 0:06:57
“A small city outside Bangor where residents know one another, but drugs are a huge problem and it is hard to raise a teenage daughter outside the drug-abusing community.”about 0:08:19
The family moved from Castine to Bangor around 2005. By 2013 he was 20, living with his parents, working at the Getchel Agency caring for people with disabilities, and living with his 17-year-old girlfriend Sarah Mercinger and their four-year-old daughter.
Nicole Cable was a 15-year-old sophomore at Old Town High School, a cheerleader, 5 feet 3 inches and about 90 pounds, with three younger sisters and an older brother. She was sociable and always on her phone. She pushed him away and he bit her neck.
The next day, 12 May, Nicole received a Facebook friend request from Brian Butterfield, a boy she knew from school. The fake Butterfield asked Nicole to meet at the end of her road in Glenburn to smoke cannabis. He told her not to worry. As she waited at the roadside, a figure in a ski mask jumped from the bushes, choked her and bound her hands, feet and mouth with duct tape before putting her in the back of his father's pickup truck.
He took off her clothes, drove to woods in Old Town, laid her body on the ground and covered it with leaves and debris, then threw her clothes from the truck window. He went home and told Dustin what he had done, saying he had meant to stage a rescue so that Nicole would see him as her saviour.
Next morning Nicole's mother realised she was missing and called the police. A large search followed, with aircraft, dogs and hundreds of volunteers. On 16 May police interviewed him twice; he denied involvement, claimed he was at work in Bangor and gave a DNA sample voluntarily.
While being booked he became emotional and said it was not the traffic matter but what he had done that worried him. The next day Sarah told police everything, including that Nicole's body was in woods near Gilman Falls in Old Town, close to Dysart's gas station. Dustin also spoke to police. On 20 May, at about 9.30 p.m., Nicole's naked body was found under leaves and sticks near a dirt road off Gilman Falls Avenue. The cause of death was asphyxia from compression of the neck. About 300 people attended the funeral.
The pages contained changing accounts of the killing, a diagram of the area, and admissions that he had made the fake account, choked Nicole, taped her and scraped her nails to remove his DNA.
He was found competent and sane. Four witnesses, including his girlfriend, his father and two former co-workers, identified his handwriting.
The judge cited the same lack of remorse and the calculated steps taken after the killing, and imposed 60 years for murder and 30 years for kidnapping, to run concurrently, so 60 years, plus $12,881.95 in restitution.
May 2013 / the end of her road in Glenburn, then woods off Gilman Falls Avenue in Old Town, Maine
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