Bobby Nightingale’s future hinges on his defense attorney convincing a jury that he’s not a murderer. He fears now that some of the words used against him at trial could be his own.State police listened in on parts of at least two of the dozens of calls Nightingale made from the Aroostook and Cumberland county jails to his attorney as they discussed his alibi, witnesses and defense strategies for two homicides he says he did not commit.
Jailed Defendants Expected Private Attorney Calls. They Didn’t Always Get Them.. This reporting was supported by the Pulitzer Center, International Women’s Media Foundation’s Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists, Report for America, and Investigative Editing Corps. Bobby.
Katharine England
Recently, the State Police Merit and Citation Board has selected Detective Abbe Chabot of Major Crimes Unit South as the 2020 Maine State Police Trooper of the Year.
Detective Abbe Chabot of Major Crimes Unit-South joined the State Police on July 13, 1997 as a member of the 45th Recruit Training Troop. Detective Chabot is a graduate of Grafton High School in Grafton, Massachusetts and Norwich University in Vermont where she majored in both Criminal Justice and English. She graduated as a Lieutenant in the Corps of Cadets in 1996.
Detective Chabot lives in the Town of Greene with her husband David and 15-year-old daughter Lily.