A Strangely Murderous Grudge

On the evening of January 6th, 1983, Ted Flagg came home to Fayette, Maine, after a double shift at the James River paper mill in Chisholm and found his wife dead. Judith Flagg, 23, was lying on the living-room floor with the telephone still in her hand. Their 13-month-old son, Chad, was curled on her chest, covered in her blood but unharmed. She had been stabbed repeatedly in the chest, stomach and back, and had defensive wounds on her hands and left wrist. The medical examiner put her death at about 11 a.m., twelve hours before her husband found her. She had also been sexually assaulted orally.

Judith was born Judith L. Dion on January 3rd, 1960, one of the children of Pauline and Alex Dion, with siblings Doreen and David. She grew up in the Fayette area, graduated from high school in 1978, played field hockey, skied and was a cheerleader. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

The police cleared Ted quickly, because the mill confirmed he had worked the whole double shift. The investigation then turned on a man who had telephoned the house that morning asking for Ted, saying he was an old friend who wanted to surprise him. Judith told her sister about the call at about 10.30 a.m.; while they were speaking, someone came to the door, and Judith told her sister the man was there and she would call back. At about 10.45 she telephoned her brother David, a mechanic, to say the man was in the drive complaining of car trouble; the man then said he would go elsewhere and David did not come. At about noon the mail carrier saw a maroon car with a tan top swerve into a ditch on the road uphill to the house, driven by a clean-shaven man in his early twenties with light brown hair, a tan coat, a grey wool scarf and no glasses. A brother-in-law spent 45 minutes to an hour at the house that afternoon fitting a starter to a truck and saw nothing.

As many as fifty people were said to have walked through the house before police arrived. The state police took over, setting up a command post in Fayette and working the case for about a month. Footprints in the snow led to the kitchen door, and there was blood in the baby's room, but the casts and the blood testing available in 1983 could tell them little. A reward reached $4,300 by February 1984.

this part of the story is covered for now He had been angry that the house went to his stepmother, and in 1981 had come to the house for belongings and left annoyed when Ted told him they were at the realtor. details of the account remain covered until revealed He was also seen at about 7 a.m. on the day of the murder driving a two-tone 1973 Ford Thunderbird north out of Portland on I-295. In 1984 police obtained his shoes and blood; his car was olive green with a tan roof and a maroon primer door, and his aunt Eleanor Foley produced a handwritten diary accounting for his day.

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