Town note
The town was first called field Plantation, then renamed Litchfield.
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Kimberly Jo Hutchins was born on 11 June 1970 in Rumford, Maine, one of the children of Arthur and Jeanette Hutchins. She graduated from Telstar High School and went on to Becker College in western Massachusetts, where she earned a degree in interior design in 1990.
She was 46 and was changing careers, enrolling at the Avita Maine Institute in Augusta to study cosmetology. Classmates remembered Kimberly as a warm, hard-working woman, but Anthony Coco, the school's owner, said she was afraid of her son.
They spent hours planning. In the early hours of 22 April they went upstairs. The medical examiner found stab wounds to her neck, defensive wounds to her hands and wrists, contusions and abrasions, and bleeding under her scalp; strangulation or stabbing could have caused death.
At about two o'clock that morning state police received several calls reporting a possible homicide. Officers found Kimberly dead on her bed, blood on the sheets, comforter, bed frame, rug and a light switch, a kitchen knife on the bed and a bottle of glass cleaner on the nightstand. A neighbour reported seeing three teenagers leaving the house. At the station they claimed an intruder had killed her and spared them. Investigators also found comic panels the boys had drawn depicting the killing.