Reporter who spoke to teenage girl before she vanished in 1984 reacts to arrest in cold case murder

After Maine police introduced an arrest within the chilly case homicide of a teenage woman in 1984, a former reporter who noticed the sufferer shortly earlier than she died is talking out. 

Linda Maxwell, 18, was final seen on August 23, 1984, the Maine State Police said in a statement. She had spent the night with buddies. Two days later, her physique was discovered on the shoreline of Maine’s St. Croix River in Robbinston, Washington County. The case was investigated however remained unsolved for many years, police mentioned. 

On Might 1, the Maine State Police introduced that they’d arrested Raymond Brown, 65. He was indicted by a grand jury and arrested after a site visitors cease in Bangor, Maine. He has been charged with homicide and might be held with out bail within the Washington County Jail, police mentioned. 

Police mentioned an “intensive and expanded investigation” led to Brown’s arrest, however didn’t supply any particulars. 

Former reporter Heather Henry-Tenan, one of many final folks to see and converse with Maxwell, mentioned the case “made an impression” on her. Henry-Tenan was among the many group Maxwell had frolicked earlier than her disappearance, CBS affiiate WGME reported in 2015, throughout their own investigation into the chilly case. 

Henry-Tenan beforehand instructed WGME about how she discovered the teenager was lacking. 

“I awakened the following morning and a pal of mine had referred to as and mentioned ‘Linda’s lacking.’ I mentioned ‘Wow, what occurred?’ They mentioned ‘We do not know,'” Maxwell mentioned in 2015.

Each August for 21 years, she wrote a information story about Maxwell. 

“The entire city was on the sting ready for it to be solved, so I wrote the story for 21 years. She made an impression on me, and we have been virtually the identical age, so that actually hit dwelling, proper. That might have been me,” Henry-Tenan told WGME on Tuesday.