Joseph Eaton Murders 4 In Maine

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Joseph Eaton

Joseph Eaton is a convicted killer from Maine who would plead guilty to four murders including that of his own parents

According to court documents Joseph Eaton would go to a rural property where he would shoot and kill his parents Cynthia Eaton, 62, and David Eaton, 66; and their friends Robert Eger, 72, and Patti Eger, 62. Joseph Eaton would then open fire at vehicles traveling down Interstate 295 in Yarmouth Maine injuring three people.

Joseph Eaton would be arrested and would ultimately plead guilty to the four murders and would be sentenced to life in prison

Joseph Eaton has never given a reason behind the four murders

Joseph Eaton Case

A man in Maine who confessed to killing his parents and two of their friends and wounding three people in a highway shooting pleaded guilty to murder and other charges on Monday, and a judge sentenced him to the maximum term of life in prison.

Joseph Eaton has never provided an explanation for his actions and police have not publicly announced any motive. Eaton withdrew an insanity defense late last year. He was subsequently charged with four counts of murder and three counts of aggravated attempted murder. He pleaded guilty to all of the charges on Monday.

Defense lawyer Andrew Wright said Eaton chose to plead guilty to take responsibility, believing it was the “reasonable and moral” thing to do.

Anguished family members described sleepless nights, nightmares and loss of innocence during emotional testimony given before Eaton’s sentencing.

One of them called Eaton “a selfish little boy” who took the lives of the very people who cared most for him.

Eaton looked down at the defense table during much of the testimony, and apologized afterward. “I wake up every day regretting what I did,” he said. Of his life sentence, he added, “I honestly think I deserve more. All I can say is, I’m sorry.”

Law enforcement officials say Eaton, now 35, confessed to the killings on a property in rural Bowdoin, and to wounding three people while shooting at vehicles on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth, which brought traffic to a halt until police eventually captured him. The shootings came days after Eaton was released from a Maine prison for unrelated crimes. He has been in jail since his latest arrest.

Those killed were Eaton’s parents, Cynthia Eaton, 62, and David Eaton, 66; and longtime friends Robert Eger, 72, and Patti Eger, 62, the couple who owned the Bowdoin home where they all were staying. Also killed was the family dog, resulting in an animal cruelty charge.

Authorities say the slayings took place “on or about” April 17, 2023. Their bodies were found the following day, on the same Tuesday that three people were wounded when shots were fired on I-295 in Yarmouth, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) outside of Portland, Maine’s biggest city. Eaton faced separate indictments because the attacks at the Bowdoin home and on the highway happened in different counties.

Maine Public Safety Commissioner Michael Sauschuck called the shootings “an attack on the soul of our state.” But the heavy toll of the crime was surpassed months later when an Army reservist, who also lived in Bowdoin, killed 18 people at two locations in Lewiston, in what would become the state’s deadliest mass shooting.

Police still haven’t announced any motive for Eaton’s crimes.

An unsigned note found at the scene of the killings mentioned “someone being freed of pain and that the writer of the note wanted a new life,” according to a criminal affidavit. Eaton told the Portland Press Herald newspaper in jailhouse interviews that he was not in control of his actions at the time of the shootings and didn’t understand why he did it.

Eaton also has a criminal history in Florida and Kansas. Cynthia Eaton had picked up Joseph Eaton from the Maine prison on April 14, when he was released after serving time for the crimes that were unrelated to the shootings.

Superior Court Justice Daniel Billings said that Eaton was lucky to have family and friends waiting to welcome him back into society after being released from prison, and those were the people he killed. “It leaves me without words,” he said.

https://www.timescolonist.com/world-news/man-who-confessed-to-killing-4-people-in-maine-including-parents-is-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-9162114

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Kailie Brackett Murders Kimberly Neptune

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Kailie Brackett

Kailie Brackett is a killer from Maine who was convicted in the brutal murder of Kimberly Neptune

According to court documents Kailie Brackett would stab Kimberly Neptune nearly five hundred times causing her death

The body of Kimberly Neptune would be found wrapped up in a blanket near the Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point reservation

Kailie Brackett and Donnell Dana were arrested and charged with murder

The jury would not find Donnell Dana guilty and he would later plead guilt to hindering apprehension or prosecution for disposing of evidence

The jury would find Kailie Brackett guilty and she would be sentenced to fifty five years in prison. Brackett would continue to deny being responsible for the murder of Kimberly Neptune

Kailie Brackett Case

Grisly new details have been released in an investigation into the death of a 43-year-old Maine woman who authorities say was stabbed hundreds of times when she was slain by a 39-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman during an April robbery, police say. Donnell J. Dana and Kailie A. Brackett have since been taken into custody and charged with the brutal murder of Kimberly Neptune.

According to a report from the Bangor Daily News, a newly released police affidavit states that the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner performed an autopsy on Neptune and was able to identify 484 different stab wounds throughout her “legs, stomach, neck, and head.” The affidavit also reportedly provided a motive for the horrific attack, indicating that Dana and Brackett planned to rob Neptune of drugs and money.

Officers with the Pleasant Point Police Department at approximately 8:11 p.m. on April 21, 2022 responded to a wellness check at a residence located in the 20 block of Thunder Road in Perry, the Maine State Police said in a press release.

Perry is in extreme eastern Maine. It is across Passamaquoddy Bay from New Brunswick, Canada.

The 911 caller who summoned the authorities reportedly identified themselves as a relative of Neptune.

Upon arriving at the scene, officers discovered Neptune’s lifeless body and requested assistance from the Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit North.

Initially, authorities only stated that the “circumstances of [Neptune’s] death are suspicious.” They released two security camera screenshots of a possible suspect dressed in all black who was in the area at the time of Neptune’s death. That suspect was later identified as Brackett. Police reportedly said that Brackett posted photos of herself online showing herself near Neptune’s apartment on the day of her murder wearing clothing similar to the suspect seen on the security camera footage.

In the affidavit released Wednesday, investigators reportedly say that Dana and Bracket — both of whom knew Neptune — went to her apartment with a plan to rob her of 300 Xanax pills and cash. In the days prior to Neptune’s murder, investigators reportedly said that Brackett was vocal about her plans to rob the other woman.

Brackett allegedly told multiple people that Neptune had recently stolen from her and “would regret it,” the Portland Press Herald reported.

“Brackett was talking to anyone who would listen to her,” the affidavit reportedly said.

Brackett is alleged to have been the mastermind behind the plan to rob Neptune and later convinced Dana, with whom she has a child, to assist her in the crime. Dana had reportedly lived with Neptune for several years but moved out of her apartment in 2021.

A witness reportedly told police that Brackett told her about robbing and killing Neptune the day after the crime. Brackett reportedly told the witness that she called Neptune on April 20 and the two arranged to see each other the next night at Neptune’s apartment. Brackett even got a babysitter, the affidavit reportedly said.

Brackett then allegedly showed up at Neptune’s with Dana. When Neptune said he couldn’t come in, Dana allegedly attacked her while Brackett raided the apartment of drugs, cash, and other valuables.

Brackett allegedly told the witness that she too stabbed Neptune, reportedly saying, “Kim put up a good fight.” Dana allegedly told that same witness about the robbery, admitting to killing Neptune and saying his fight with her “got out of control,” per the Press Herald.

Neptune’s brother reportedly discovered the body wrapped in a blanket inside of the victim’s apartment.

Kailie Brackett and Dana were reportedly indicted for murder in May and are currently being held without bond at the Washington County Jail in Machias.

The Maine State Police and the Washington County District Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to inquires from Law&Crime.

Kailie Brackett Sentencing

A judge on Friday sentenced a woman to 55 years in prison for the 2022 killing of a longtime friend who was stabbed nearly 500 times.

Kailie A. Brackett, who was convicted of murder, said that she was not responsible and that the real killer or killers could be at large.

Brackett and Donnell Dana, of Perry, were both charged and tried for murder. But a mistrial was declared after jurors deadlocked on the charge against Dana.

They were accused in the death of Kimberly Neptune, 43, of Perry, whose body was found wrapped in a blanket in her home in April 2022 with 484 stab wounds, according to state police.

Police officers from the Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point reservation found Neptune’s body after an alert from her brother. The town of Perry abuts the Passamaquoddy Tribe reservation at Pleasant Point.

Dana later pleaded guilty to hindering apprehension or prosecution for disposing of evidence related to Brackett’s murder charge.

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Andrew Balcer Murders Parents

Andrew Balcer is a teen killer from Maine who would murder his parents and family dog

According to court documents Andrew Balcer, who now goes be the name Andrea Balcer, would fatally stab her parents to death as well as the family dog. Apparently the double murder occurred after Balcer would tell her parents that she wanted to live as a woman and they were not supported

Andrew Balcer, Andrea Balcer, would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to forty years in prison

Balcer was initially sent to a male prison however was later transferred to a female prison

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Andrew Balcer – Andrea Balcer Now

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Status:Incarcerated
MDOC Number:156589
Last Name, First Name, Middle Initial:Balcer, Andrew Taney
Alias or Aliases:Andrew Balcer,Andrea Balcer,Andrew Taney Balcer,Andrea Taney Balcer
Location(s) and location phone number(s):Facility – Maine Correctional Center
Earliest Custody Release Date:7/4/2051
Date of Birth:12/3/1998
Age (Years):25
Weight (Pounds):245
Height:6 Feet 1 Inches
Eye Color:Brown
Hair Color:Brown
Race/Ethnicity:White
Gender:F

Andrew Balcer (Andrea Balcer ) Case

A biological male who identifies as a woman and was sentenced to 40 years in prison for murdering his parents in 2016 is now listed as female by the Maine Department of Corrections (MDOC).

Andrew T. Balcer, 24, was originally listed as male in MDOC documents after being convicted of murder charges in 2018, but state records were recently altered to list Balcer as a female inmate, according to Reduxx.

Balcer, who also goes by Andrea, was convicted in 2018 for the 2016 Halloween stabbing deaths of his parents.

Balcer told authorities that he “snapped” and killed them because of his gender identity struggles. According to reports, Balcer woke his mother, Alice, on the night he murdered her and told her that he was having trouble sleeping.

When Alice Balcer tried to comfort him, he stabbed her in the back nine times, killing her. Balcer also murdered his father, Antonio, and their pet Chihuahua, Lily. He spared his older brother, telling him, “It’s not your day” before allowing him to flee.

Balcer reportedly laughed while confessing his crimes to a police officer over the phone. He had called 911 himself to report the murders.

“I snapped. I took my little Ka-Bar [military combat knife] there, and I drove it straight into my mother’s back,” Balcer said. “My father came up because he heard her screams and I stabbed the f— out of him. Oh, I killed the dog, too. It was barking.”

Balcer, who stands at 6’1″, was listed as male as recently as September, according to archived MDOC records.

What accommodations Balcer will receive as a female inmate remain unclear, and MDOC did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment by time of publication.

In 2020, MDOC Commissioner Randell Liberty implemented a policy requiring state-run correctional facilities to provide clothing items that align with an inmate’s gender identity, including push-up bras and chest binders.

As a result, Balcer is eligible to receive a push-up bra and other medical accommodations that would give the appearance of breasts.

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Andrew Balcer (Andrea Balcer) News

A mother and father were killed two years ago by their teenager who has now been sentenced to 40 years in prison for their deaths.

20-year-old Andrea Balcer pleaded guilty as part of a deal with prosecutors.

On Halloween night in 2016, Balcer called 9-1-1 to say he had stabbed his parents and the family dog.

Balcer is transgender, formerly called Andrew, and was 17 at the time of the crime.

In court Tuesday, Balcer asked for forgiveness from her family.

“Though no one may believe me, I am truly sorry for what I have done,” said Balcer. “I’ve killed my parents. And I know that no amount of repenting will ever bring me true forgiveness for that.”

Walter McKee, Defense Attorney said, “I would have liked to see a lesser sentence, but under the circumstances, two murders, all the problems with the case, 40 years on balance is not that bad.”

“Today was about trying to do justice for Alice and Antonio Balcer. We did the best we could in that sense. As I said, we are disappointed in the sentence that was imposed, but you make your call and the judge makes his call,” said Bud Ellis of the prosecution.

Balcer had said his parents Alice and Antonio Balcer weren’t supportive of his transition from male to female and abused him.

Family and friends disputed any notion the parents weren’t supportive of Andrea.

Carl Pierce, Alice’s brother, said the suggestion that gender identity played a role was an insult to the parents’ memory.

https://www.wabi.tv/content/news/Balcer-sentenced-to-40-years-in-prison-for-murder-of-parents-501921732.html

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Thayne Ormsby Murders 3 In Maine

Thayne Ormsby is a killer from Maine who would be convicted of three counts of murder

According to court documents Thayne Ormsby would move into a home, Strout household, that had a bit of feud going with Jeff Ryan. Apparently someone in the household would tell Thayne that Jeff Ryan was a drug dealer, however this was never proven.

Thayne Ormsby would go over to the Ryan residence where he would stab to death Jeffrey Ryan, 55, Ryan’s son Jesse, 10, and Ryan family friend Jason Dehahn, 30. Ormsby would steal Jeffrey Ryan pickup truck which he would later set on fire

Thayne Ormsby would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Maine does not have a parole system meaning Ormsby will die behind bars

Thayne Ormsby Now

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Status:Incarcerated
MDOC Number:101543
Last Name, First Name, Middle Initial:Ormsby, Thayne Michael
Alias or Aliases:Thayne Orsmby,Thayne Ormsby
Location(s) and location phone number(s):Facility – Maine State Prison
Earliest Custody Release Date:Life
Date of Birth:4/22/1990
Age (Years):33
Weight (Pounds):180
Height:5 Feet 11 Inches
Eye Color:Blue
Hair Color:Blond or Strawberry
Race/Ethnicity:White
Gender:M

Thayne Ormsby Case

A Maine man convicted of killing two adults and a 10-year-old boy is going to prison for life.

Thayne Ormsby was given three life sentences – one for each murder conviction – today in Aroostook County Superior Court in Houlton. The judge added a 15-year sentence on top of the life sentences for Ormsby’s arson conviction.

Ormsby was convicted in April in the 2010 stabbing deaths of 55-year-old Jeffrey Ryan, his 10-year-old son, Jesse, and family friend Jason Dehahn at Ryan’s home in the small northern Maine town of Amity. The jury rejected Ormsby’s insanity defense.

Ormsby said he wanted to kill the elder Ryan because he thought the man was a drug dealer, and he killed Dehahn and the boy to eliminate potential witnesses.

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An Ellsworth man convicted of murder in the brutal slaying of two men and a 10-year-old boy in Amity in 2010 is trying for a third time to overturn those convictions.

Thayne Ormsby has spent the past decade in prison after a jury found him guilty of murder for stabbing to death Jeffrey Ryan, 55, Ryan’s son Jesse, 10, and Ryan family friend Jason Dehahn, 30. All three were found dead in the U.S. Route 1 home of Jeffrey Ryan, about 27 hours after they had been killed, according to police.

The state medical examiner determined each individual had died of multiple stab wounds

Ormsby filed a habeas corpus petition on Sept. 4 in United States District Court seeking to have his convictions for the three murders reversed on the basis that detectives continued interviewing him after he had invoked his right to counsel.

“Mr. Ormsby invoked his right to silence and counsel by saying: ‘I’m gonna have to plead the 5th at this point.’ ‘Perhaps I do need a lawyer?’,” Ormsby’s attorney Hunter Tzovarras said in the court documents.

Tzovarras contended that police continued to question Ormsby for another three hours following these invocations of his rights; that Ormsby was the focus of the police investigation and was read his Miranda rights at the start of the police questioning him; and that police had told Ormsby that his DNA and fingerprints were found at the scene of the crime.

Maine’s Attorney General’s Office has petitioned the courts to deny the habeas corpus petition on the grounds that the deadline to file such a motion expired five months ago, according to Assistant Attorney General Donald W. Macomber. The courts have not yet ruled on this motion, Macomber said.

It marks the third such time that Ormsby has sought to have his conviction overturned or his case reviewed.

In June 2012, Superior Court Justice E. Allen Hunter sentenced the then 22-year-old Ormsby to three life terms in prison for the deaths. During his trial, it was said that Ormsby had moved to Orient from Ellsworth in the weeks leading up to the murders to live with Robert and Joy Strout

Court testimony indicated there was animosity between the Strout family and Jeff Ryan because Ryan had once had a relationship with Tamara Strout, Robert and Joy’s daughter. Tamara Strout eventually had a child with Ryan. Strout also told Ormsby that Ryan was a drug dealer, which there was no evidence to support.

After Ormsby’s conviction, his attorney’s James Dunleavy and Sarah LeClaire filed an appeal with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, arguing that Ormsby’s convictions should be overturned based on several factors, including that his rights to an attorney and to remain silent were violated by police and that he was denied a change of venue despite prejudicial pretrial publicity.

The justices found no basis to support the arguments and in October 2013 upheld the convictions.

The case was then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but in March 2014, the court refused to review the case, citing Ormsby’s rights to an attorney and to remain silent were not violated, nor was it a factor that he was denied a change of venue because of prejudicial pretrial publicity.

In January 2019, a superior court justice denied a petition to have the courts review and possibly retry his case.

Ormsby’s attorney Hunter Tzovarras argued that the state failed to pursue an alternative suspect in the case and that Ormsby’s defense counsel was ineffective. In denying that petition for post-conviction review, Justice E. Allen Hunter further wrote that the court found that Ormsby’s previous attorneys Dunleavy and Leclaire fulfilled their professional obligations to the petitioner, and that Ormsby had failed in his burden of proving that his trial attorneys had provided ineffective assistance of counsel.

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Andrew Balcer Murders Parents

Andrew Balcer was a transgendered teen from Maine who would murder his parents and the family dog.

Andrew Balcer who preferred to go by Andrew Balcer was unhappy that his parents were not supporting his transition so he decided to kill them.

Andrew Balcer would stab to death his parents and the family dog

Andrew Balcer would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for forty years

Andrew Balcer is currently incarcerated in a male prison

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Where is Andrew Balcer now

Andrew Balcer is currently incarcerated at Maine State Prison

When is Andrew Balcer release date

Andrew Balcer is currently serving a life sentence and earliest parole date is 2051

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A Winthrop woman who admitted to murdering her parents and the family dog on Halloween two years ago was sentenced Tuesday at the Capital Judicial Center to 40 years in prison.

Andrea Balcer, 20, of Winthrop, who is transgender and previously went by Andrew, pleaded guilty in September to two counts of intentional or knowing murder and one count of aggravated cruelty to animals.

Balcer’s plea agreement with the Maine attorney general’s office called for the prosecution to recommend a sentence of 55 years in prison.

Defense attorney Walter McKee of Augusta urged Superior Court Justice Daniel Billings to impose a lesser sentence, closer to the 25-year mandatory minimum. McKee did not suggest a specific sentence.

In interviews with psychologists over the past two years, Andrew Balcer has said that she did not believe her parents would be supportive of her identifying as a woman and that triggered the slayings.

Andrew Balcer, dressed in green jail clothes, on Tuesday told Billings that she would not ask for leniency.

“I’m here today to ask for one thing — that is for the forgiveness of my family,” she said. “I don’t blame them for this because I have caused them such great pain. They believe I have no remorse for what happened.”

Andrew Balcer said that there is nothing she could do to explain to family and friends how she feels about what she did.

“I made a terrible mistake, one that cost the life of the two people who made me and raised me,” she said. “Though no one may believe me, I am truly sorry for what I have done. I killed my parents.”

Andrew Balcer also said she hopes her “beloved brother Christopher” would be able to “deal with his demons” and forgive her.

As friends and family members spoke emotionally about the effect the slayings have had on them, Balcer often broke down in sobs during the 3½ hour sentencing hearing.

Some family members referred to Balcer as Andrew during Tuesday’s hearing, while others called her Andrea.

Christopher Balcer, now 27 and living in Ohio, asked the judge to show no leniency.

“I just want this to be over,” he said. “Two years ago, my entire support system was destroyed. Justice cannot be served by what happens today. I want you to do all that’s possible to put this dangerous person away from society.”

Alice Balcer’s older brother, Carl Pierce, 52, of Fairfield asked Billings to protect society from Andrea, whom he described as dangerous.

“Society needs to know why kids like her do things like this,” he said. “She needs to search deep into her soul to provide us answers about what happened.”

Workers from the Winthrop Veterinary Hospital, where Alice Balcer worked, emotionally described her as a loving, accepting, understanding and generous woman who was devoted to her children. All said they were devastated by the murders and struggled to understand what had happened.

Only her maternal grandfather, Arthur Pierce, 83, of Brunswick spoke in support of Balcer. A former school superintendent, Pierce talked about her intelligence and academic achievements. While incarcerated, Andrew Balcer earned a high school equivalency diploma.

Pierce paid for Balcer’s legal defense with the money intended to send her to the Maine Maritime Academy to study marine biology, McKee said.

Andrea Balcer called 911 in the early morning hours of Oct. 31, 2016, to say that she had stabbed her mother and father — Alice and Antonio Balcer, both 47, and the family dog, according to a recording of the call played Tuesday. Balcer spared her older brother’s life.

“I snapped,” she told a dispatcher.

In an audio interview with police played Tuesday, Andrew Balcer confessed that she stabbed her mother repeatedly in the back while she was hugging the then-teenager. Balcer, whose father was awakened by Alice Balcer’s screams, stabbed Antonio Balcer in the kitchen and, finally, the dog because it would not stop barking.

Alice Balcer was stabbed nine times and Antonio Balcer was stabbed a dozen times, according to the autopsy report.

During the initial interview with detectives, a portion of which was played Tuesday, Balcer did not talk about being transgender. That information became public at the two-day hearing in October 2017 to determine if Balcer would be tried as an adult.

Dr. Debra Baeder, Maine’s chief forensic psychiatrist, testified that Balcer believed her parents would not accept her desire to live life as a woman rather than a man. In one of her sessions with her, Balcer said, “‘Maybe I should be someone else. Maybe I should be a woman,’” the doctor testified.

“‘I couldn’t be as flamboyant as I wanted. I couldn’t dress the way I wanted,’” she said Balcer told her about her reported conflict with her parents

Andrew Balcer was about six weeks shy of her 18th birthday when she committed the crimes, according to court documents. A District Court judge ruled in November 2017 that Balcer should be tried as an adult rather than as a juvenile.

Because Andrew Balcer was a juvenile when she committed the crimes, she could not be sentenced to life in prison, according to the Maine attorney general’s office. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that juveniles convicted of murder are not subject to a life sentence or the death penalty.

If Balcer had been 18 when she committed the two murders, she could have been sentenced to life in prison under Maine law.

Andrew Balcer has been held without bail at the Kennebec County Jail since the ruling that she be tried as an adult was announced. Before that, she was incarcerated at Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland

Andrea Balcer sentenced to 40 years for killing her parents and dog on Halloween

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