Gerald Goodale, who in 1989 was sentenced to 75 years for the murder of Geraldine Finn of Skowhegan, has been indicted on charges that he killed Janet Brochu in 1987.
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Archived news clippings detail the story of Janet Brochu after she disappeared in 1987 and her body was found three months later.
A prison inmate serving a 75-year sentence for murdering a woman in 1988 has been charged in the separate slaying of Janet Brochu of Winslow a year earlier.
Janet Brochu is seen in an undated archived photo.
Morning Sentinel file
The arrest of Gerald Goodale, 61, in connection with Brochu’s 1987 cold case, came after unspecified new evidence was uncovered and presented to a grand jury, Maine State Police said in a news release on Friday.
Brochu, who was 20 at the time of her death, was out with friends on Dec. 23, 1987, in Waterville when she separated from the group and disappeared, police said at the time. She was last seen leaving a nightclub in Waterville at midnight in the company of a man.