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The Unsolved Bangor House Murder of Effie MacDonald

2021/3/23
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Kristen Seavey: 本集讲述了发生在1965年3月Bangor House酒店的Effie MacDonald谋杀案。Effie是一位生活简朴、勤劳善良的女性，在酒店担任清洁工。案发当天，她在午餐后与一名男子交谈后失踪，随后被发现死于酒店三楼一间空置房间内，死因是窒息，并伴有性侵犯和殴打。此案与波士顿扼杀案的相似之处引发了警方的关注，但两者之间也存在关键差异。警方曾发布嫌疑人画像，并呼吁公众提供线索，但案件至今未破。关于Effie为何出现在案发房间，以及凶手如何接近她的几种推测。警方认为他们掌握了足够的证据指控一名男性嫌疑人，但最终决定放弃起诉，以避免嫌疑人被释放后无法再被追究法律责任。多年来，一些人打电话给Dale，指认来自Jonesport地区的一位殡葬业者为主要嫌疑人，但Dale对此并不确定。即使案件已经过去多年，负责此案的警探Cliff Sloan仍然没有放弃希望，但案件的破获面临诸多挑战。 Dale Mower: 作为Effie的侄子，他试图了解并保存姑姑的死亡事件的真相，以避免她被遗忘。Effie的婚姻并不幸福，离婚后她搬回Bangor，过着简朴的生活，性格内向，与家人关系密切。Dale对Effie的遇害感到震惊和不解，并认为Effie生前过着平静幸福的生活，不太可能与人发生冲突。Dale直到十年前才了解到Effie遇害的全部细节，而他的母亲更希望忘记这件事。Effie的家人已经接受了案件可能永远无法破获的事实，并试图从悲剧中走出来。

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Effie MacDonald, a chambermaid at the Bangor House Hotel, was brutally murdered in 1965. The case remains unsolved, with no clear motive or suspect.

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1965 - Bangor, Maine.

In March of 1965, 54-year-old Effie MacDonald went to her job as a chambermaid at the Bangor House Hotel, a prominent luxury hotel in downtown Bangor, Maine.

At 1:15pm, she was seen speaking with a man in the hotel's corridor, and she wasn't seen again... until 2:45pm, when her body was found in a vacant 3rd floor room. She'd been strangled, beaten, and raped.

Around this time, the Boston Strangler had been terrorizing Massachusetts with a string of unsolved murders. Could Effie be the victim of a copycat serial killer?

To this day, Effie's case is one of Maine's oldest unsolved cases. Effie had no enemies. She lived a modest and quiet life. Who would brutally murder such a respectable Maine woman?

This is the story of Effie Terrill MacDonald.

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