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Cook held in Maine B&B murder
Boston Herald ^
| 9/5/2006
| By Joe Dwinell
Posted on 09/05/2006 1:10:38 PM PDT by metesky
Cook held in Maine B&B murder spree
By Joe Dwinell
Community Newspaper Company Managing Editor
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 - Updated: 03:20 PM EST
The 31-year-old cook accused of going on a murder spree in Maine of horrific proportions shot and dismembered the bodies of three female victims and shot and burned a man, police said today.
The suspect, Christian Nielsen, also shot and killed three pet dogs in a slaughter police say took four days to complete.
This is the worst homicide in Maine in the past 14 years, said Col. Craig Poulin, commander of the Maine State Police.
The quadruple murder took place at a bed and breakfast near the popular Sunday River ski resort.
This is a crime of horrific proportions, a solemn Poulin said, adding they do not expect to find any other victims.
Detectives say Nielsen told them he first killed a Maine man on Friday, then two days later attacked the owner of the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast where he had been renting a room, according affidavits filed today as Nielsen made his initial court appearance.
The owners 30-year-old daughter and a friend were killed when they arrived at the inn unexpectedly on Monday, the state police affidavits said, the Associated Press reports.
Nielsen was charged with four counts of murder and ordered held without bail. He smiled as he left Oxford County Superior Court today, AP is reporting.
The bodies of Julie Bullard, 65, owner of the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast, her daughter Selby, 30, and a third woman, Cindy Beatson, 43, were found at the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast, according to Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland.
A body found in the woods 10 to 15 miles away in neighboring Upton was that of a fourth victim, James Whitehurst, 50, McCausland said.
Nielsen had recently been renting a room at the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast, where the bodies of three women were found Monday. He worked at another bed and breakfast in nearby Bethel.
Whitehursts remains were found north of Grafton Notch State Park, 10 to 15 miles away in the neighboring town of Upton, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety.
News swept across the communities in Maines western mountains.
"Were all just numb with shock," Robin Zinchuk, executive director of the Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce, told the Associated Press.
Police assured residents they had nothing to fear. All victims were accounted for, "and there is no danger," McCausland said.
Police were called to the Black Bear early Monday evening at a time when many vacationers were streaming out of Maine at the close of the Labor Day weekend that marks the traditional close of the summer tourist season.
Newry is near the New Hampshire line, about 75 miles northwest of Portland.
Nielsen, who police said knew at least two of the victims, has family in western Maine but his last known address was in Farmington.
Nancy White, co-owner of the Sudbury Inn, was stunned to learn that the cook she and her husband had hired this summer had been arrested for murder.
"This is a surprise to me," White said. "Hes a reliable, soft-spoken employee who has cooked with us since late June."
The phone rang unanswered Tuesday at the Black Bear, a white clapboard farmhouse with a red roof that was converted into a six-room bed-and-breakfast with a pool and tennis courts.
Nielsen had a history of driving offenses that included an arrest for drunken driving, but nothing more serious, Farmington police said. His license was revoked a year ago, said Farmington Lt. Jack Peck.
Maine is a state known for its low crime rate, so the killings came as a shock.
Maines last quadruple murder occurred on Dec. 3, 1992, when Virgil Smith set fire to a tenement at the foot of Portlands Munjoy Hill neighborhood, killing a woman, two men and a 10-month-old baby. McCausland said Smith was upset after his girlfriend broke up with him.
Earl Losier shot and killed four people, including his brother, at a neighbors apartment in Bangor on March 19, 1988, because of a loud stereo that disturbed him.
TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: murder; whats4dinner
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To: armymarinemom
Nothing makes sense in Maine anymore.
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posted on
09/05/2006 1:26:38 PM PDT
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: metesky
It is pretty evident from reading horrific stories day after day that there exists a not insignificant fraction of the population that are homicidal psychopaths with little value to society and beyond societal redemption. I say fast-track certain capital offenses of a particularly heinous nature, limit a single appeal of conviction to a thirty day window, and ensure a speedy verdict. State executions should dispense with all the needles and gurneys, and dispatch the condemned with a bullet to the head hours after an unsuccessful appeal or clemency. The alternative is to house, feed, and clothe this human garbage and his court appointed lawyer for the rest of his miserable days.
22
posted on
09/05/2006 1:27:53 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: the invisib1e hand; metesky
My experience in northern Vermont was very weird also. Lot of strange folks up there. Don't know if it's the winters, or the gene pool, or what. But there are some
extremely odd people . . . and I say that as a Southerner who's used to "eccentrics" . . . Florence King once said, "Put a fence around the South and you'd have one big madhouse." But I never felt as uncomfortable in any little rural Southern town as I did in that little town in Vermont.
Rudyard Kipling noticed it too when he lived up there. He thought it was the isolation enforced by the winters and lack of communication that set people off.
23
posted on
09/05/2006 1:28:09 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: metesky
"The phone rang unanswered Tuesday at the Black Bear...."
Uh duh, they were all dead.
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posted on
09/05/2006 1:28:47 PM PDT
by
Williams
To: CremeSaver
"Ever notice that whenever there was a murder she was always around? Hmmmmm.....?"
****
And she always had a relative or friend accused of the crime, which she had to always bail out. :)
To: metesky
Damn, I thought he meant Farmington, NH, a hot bed of commie activities, drug use, and other weirdness. I blame it all on the priestess in the Congo church and the hippies in the outreach Mission across the street.
When I found out it was Maine it explained a lot.
26
posted on
09/05/2006 1:30:33 PM PDT
by
Little Bill
(A 37%'r, a Red Spot on a Blue State, rats are evil.)
To: metesky
It always gets me how these people look normal. Chilling.
27
posted on
09/05/2006 1:31:27 PM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: metesky
Nothing makes sense in Maine anymore. I would like to see the National record on how Maine stands prosecuting family members on child abuse. I was shocked when we moved here than family members who had to have noticed abuse given a pass by the court system up here. Those yahoo's are just as guilty as the actual perp.
The media will probably make this guy out to be a victim of a mental disorder. Gag.
28
posted on
09/05/2006 1:34:36 PM PDT
by
armymarinemom
(My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
To: Monti Cello
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posted on
09/05/2006 1:38:16 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: fatnotlazy
Hmmm...and she always found someone to pin it on. Something strange about that Fletcher woman.
:O)
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posted on
09/05/2006 1:39:07 PM PDT
by
CremeSaver
(I don't repeat gossip, so listen carefully.)
To: AnAmericanMother; the invisib1e hand
You two would have loved Nantucket 35/40 years ago. It's a pretty place chi-chi now, but back then before they got cable tv wow!
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posted on
09/05/2006 1:41:26 PM PDT
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: metesky
"also shot and killed three pet dogs..."
Not quite as bad as the three women and the man, but it ranks up there. Might mean the difference between 20 years and a life sentence.
It was the cook in the bedroom with a gun.
To: armymarinemom
Well, they did produce Stephen King. I ascribe it to the stress induced by Boston Massacre, the Red Sox dropping five straight to the hated Yankees.
Red Sox Stress syndrome. He walks.
33
posted on
09/05/2006 1:43:39 PM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
To: metesky
pretty place chi-chi,p>Uh, that would be "pretty chi-chi place", bub.
34
posted on
09/05/2006 1:44:11 PM PDT
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: AnAmericanMother
The thing about Northern Vermont is that because of the "Foreign" invasion, they hate most outsiders. Over the Border where I live, it is give me your money, Welcome To NH, go home, in the North East Kingdom don't come, if you do you are a jerk don't stay. Spent allot of time up there, killing Bambi.
35
posted on
09/05/2006 1:44:44 PM PDT
by
Little Bill
(A 37%'r, a Red Spot on a Blue State, rats are evil.)
To: AnAmericanMother
My experience in northern Vermont was very weird also. Lot of strange folks up there. Don't know if it's the winters, or the gene pool, or what. But there are some extremely odd people . . . and I say that as a Southerner who's used to "eccentrics" . . . Florence King once said, "Put a fence around the South and you'd have one big madhouse." But I never felt as uncomfortable in any little rural Southern town as I did in that little town in Vermont. Rudyard Kipling noticed it too when he lived up there. He thought it was the isolation enforced by the winters and lack of communication that set people off.
It was hard for me to figure which part of your post I agreed with more, so I just cited the whole thing.
And I agree with Kipling's conclusion.
There's a little West Virginia in a lot of places.
36
posted on
09/05/2006 1:45:09 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(live until you die. then live some more.)
To: metesky
here, I think you dropped one of these: <
:)
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posted on
09/05/2006 1:46:21 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(live until you die. then live some more.)
To: metesky
The perp was in the process of being evicted from the B&B. That is prolly what put him over the edge, although he had 11 traffic violations and had his drivers license suspended 7 times - a real loser.
38
posted on
09/05/2006 1:46:41 PM PDT
by
ArtyFO
(I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Well, they did produce Stephen King LOL. I spent a good part of a basketball game trying to figure out what the heck Stephen King was reading during a basketball game. I never could see the title of the book in his lap.
39
posted on
09/05/2006 1:46:56 PM PDT
by
armymarinemom
(My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
To: metesky
"Police assured residents they had nothing to fear..."
I'm predicting he'll be on the streets again within 20 years, based on some psychologist's testimony that he's "not dangerous."
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