Posted on 12/04/2011 9:38:53 AM PST by Gamecock
AUGUSTA, Maine -- The Maine State Medical Examiner's Office confirmed Friday that human remains discovered six weeks ago in an unused freezer inside a Lewiston storage unit are those of Kitty Wardwell, who disappeared in 1983 at the age of 29.
The M.E.'s Office also has ruled that Wardwell's death was a homicide but her cause of death is being withheld, according to Steve McCausland, a spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.
The M.E.'s Office said the remains were identified earlier this week through DNA testing at a Pennsylvania laboratory. McCausland said the results were forwarded Thursday to the medical examiner and state police detectives. Wardwell's family was notified Friday morning, he said.
Wardwell's remains were found Oct. 21 inside an unplugged freezer in a storage locker at Moore Self Storage on Lisbon Street. The storage unit had been rented for 19 years by 80-year-old Frank Julian of Lewiston, who died unexpectedly on Oct. 1. Julian's family members were clearing out the unit when they discovered the remains.
Julian was the last person to see Wardwell alive and was her boyfriend at the time of her disappearance. McCausland said detectives plan to interview Julian's relatives to find the origin of the freezer and when it was placed in the storage facility
Thanks. Makes more sense now. I obviously didn’t pick up on the fact that he rented it 19 years ago. Horrible case.
I think we are close. Just a little bit more!
I pick up about three facts a year. You (and I) were lucky that this was one of them.
>>You’re right. Items stored in a locker should be regulated and inspected.
I really, really hope that was sarcasm.
Hmmmm. Can only address mine, not SP’s. What do you think?
“I pick up about three facts a year.”
I’m sure you pick up a lot more than that, but it’s really refreshing to see humility. It’s a quality you don’t see often enough - especially when following politics..
Makes sense. Can't have liberty breaking out all over the place. Are regularly scheduled home searches included?
Absolutely. How could we hope to be kept safe if the authorities don’t know what’s in our refrigerators too?
“We have a serious housing shortage, here, though (Western North Dakota).”
Oil boom country? Bakken?
If the counties and cities would fast-track approvals, the housing could be put up very quickly, somewhat conventional in style.
I read last week about fairly simple camp style housing.
It is also worth a quick study of the boom town phenomenon.
In the early 80s a few locations in Colorado and Wyoming boomed, on the prospect of full scale development of oil shale.
Not to mention gold, silver, copper, uranium booms around the west.
My real estate office is housed in a 1920s building, which was first a hotel/brothel for the oil boom here at that time.
I think the gov’t should stay out of the business relationship between a storage vendor and his customers as much as possible.
That was exactly my point...
Although mancamps, hotels, mobile homes, campgrounds and houses have been springing up like mushrooms after a rain, the builders can't keep up with demand, nor can the infrastructure. New hotels/motels are leased before completion by some of the larger service companies (Think Schlumberger and Halliburton, etc.).
Even the cell phone networks are stressed, and a half-dozen prefixes have been added in the last couple of years.
It is much the same all over the area, and there are pages of 'help wanted' ads yet.
Eight out of ten vehicles in the WalMart parking lot have out-of state plates.
You can fast-track all the approval you want, that still doesn't get the roof on or provide a place for the water to go when you flush.
We had an oil boom in the late '70s/early 80s, too, but that was nothing compared to this.
It only begs the question: Where did he keep the body for the first 9 years?
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