The detective who knew too much: Don DuPay’s Portland police career haunts him. He’s still trying to get justice
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Don DuPay joined the Portland Police Bureau in 1961. He resigned in frustration 17 years later. (Photos courtesy of Don DuPay)
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When Don DuPay found her in the Plaid Pantry store, the woman was sprawled on her back, her clothes torn from her body. She’d been raped and then knifed to death.
A week earlier the first week of September in 1975 the Portland police detective had taken on another distressing case, this one involving a Black teenager shot to death in his bedroom. DuPay showed up late for the autopsy, hoping to avoid seeing the medical examiner saw into the boy’s skull.
STOUGHTON A police lieutenant who was the subject of a disciplinary hearing about his alleged failure to tell his bosses about a December incident at a church involving a Black man with mental health issues will receive a two-day suspension and must undergo training.
In a Tuesday letter detailing the decision, Town Manager Robin Grimm found that Lt. Daniel McGowan s actions on Dec. 27 were in violation of the department s notification to the chief policy and a prior warning by Deputy Chief Brian Holmes in August 2019 after a previous incident in which McGowan didn t notify him or Chief Donna McNamara. My goal with any decision with any department isn t to take money out of people s pockets. It s to make better employees, Grimm said about her decision. We can address the needs of the community, get a better employee, and still hold accountability for where he didn t follow a direct order.
Mary Ellen Gambon
Stoughton’s first responders received a shot in the arm as well as a morale boost as the first COVID-19 vaccines were administered at the police station beginning on Jan. 11, according to Town Manager Robin Grimm.
“I want to thank the two chiefs – Chief Laracy and Chief McNamara – for setting up schedules for this,” she said, complimenting the fire and police heads, respectively. “This wasn’t as easy as it sounds because we knew there would be the potential for some mild side effects.”
Grimm was able to partner with Sharon in order for both towns to have enough participants to receive the coronavirus vaccine.