Multi-State Murders: Cuckoo for Clocks

Homegrown Horror

Don't you just love Maine? It's so nice and peaceful - but B is going to ruin that for us all again as she dives into the deaths of Harry Staples, Richard Mace, Lorenzo D. Troyer, Lewis & Francis Gephart, and Russell Bailey in a multi-state, multi-year murder spree of one Richard Steeves.

Sources:

Aged Beaten Man, 83, Dies Of Injuries by C.Scott Hoar for the Evening Express on June 28, 1965

Officials Term Augusta Man's Death Murder for the Evening Express on August 16, 1965

Richard Steeves: A 'Golden Boy' Gone Bad by Bob Hohler for The Concord Monitor on July 5th, 1985

​​383 A.2d 1379 (1978), STATE of Maine v. Richard STEEVES via Justia US Law

Ex-Maine Man Ordered Held For Court In Slaying from the Bangor Daily News on January 7th, 1966

Officials did not think Steeves would be released from The Tribune on May 8th, 1985

Murder suspect moved to state prison from The Sun-Journal on August 28th, 1985

Steeves sought for questioning in death from the Kennebec Journal on April 26th, 1985

Retrial sought in murder case from The Sun Journal on January 22nd, 1987

Sentenced to life, a killer of 6 wants to go free (again) by Bob Hohler for The Boston Globe on March 18, 2017

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