Inmate charged with killing another woman 34 years ago
May 14, 2021
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WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) A Maine man has been charged with killing a woman who disappeared 34 years ago in Waterville on Christmas Eve, police said Friday.
Gerald Goodale, 61, was indicted Thursday for murder in the death of Janet Brochu of Waterville, officials said. He s already in the Maine State Prison serving a sentence for murdering another woman, Geraldine Finn, in 1988.
New evidence that recently developed allowed prosecutors to present evidence about Brochu s death to a grand jury, officials said.
State police detectives met with Goodale to inform him of the new charge on Friday. It s unclear if he has an attorney.
Murder charges filed in 1987 Maine cold case
Gerald Goodale was arrested and charged with the murder of Janet Brochu more than 30 years after her death. Author: Erin Keller (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 5:34 PM EDT May 14, 2021 Updated: 6:24 PM EDT May 14, 2021
WATERVILLE, Maine After more than thirty years, an arrest and charge have been made in the 1987 murder of Janet Brochu of Waterville, Maine Public Safety Spokesperson Shannon Moss said in a press release Friday.
According to Moss, the 20-year-old Brochu was out with friends on Christmas Eve in Waterville when she separated from the group and disappeared. In March of 1988, more than two months after disappearing, Brochu was found dead in the Pittsfield s Sebasticook River.
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Man arrested in connection with 1987 murder of Waterville woman
Gerald Goodale, an inmate serving a sentence for the 1988 murder of another woman, has been indicted on charges that he killed Janet Brochu in 1987.
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A man has been charged with murder in the three-decade-old killing of Janet Brochu of Waterville, police said Friday.
Janet Brochu is seen in an undated archived photo.
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The arrest of Gerald Goodale, 61, in connection with the 1987 cold case, came after unspecified new evidence was uncovered and presented to a grand jury, Maine State Police said in a news release.
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Excluded are cases where there is evidence that the person who committed the crime is dead and cases where it is not legal to prosecute the prime suspect (statute of limitations, double jeopardy, etc).
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