Copyright Boston
Globe Newspaper Apr 19,
1981
The beating murder
in East Millinocket,
Maine, of 16-year-old
Joyce McLain last August
caused considerable stir
in that town of 3000
residents. It was the
first homicide in 41
years and only the
second since the town
was incorporated in
1907.
The victim's body,
partially disrobed and
with hands tied, was
found less than a mile
from her home in woods
beside the soccer field
at Schenck High School,
where today she would
have been a senior. The
girl was last seen two
nights earlier as she
left her house to go
jogging.
This past week, Joyce's
parents, friends and
sympathetic residents
and businessmen in East
Millinocket and in
neighboring Millinocket
and Medway pledged a
$10,000 reward for
information leading to
the arrest and
conviction of the girl's
murderer.
"It's made people
nervous," Joyce's
mother, Pamela McLain,
said of the murder.
"People who didn't lock
their doors lock them
now. You never worried
about walking about town
at night. Now there's
that feeling."
The police have
questioned more than 400
persons in the murder
investigation.
"We've not received any
information yet as a
result of the reward
because it won't be in
the newspapers here
until this weekend,"
Maine State Police Det.
Sgt. Ralph Pinkham said
Friday.
"It would take only a
very few pieces to put
this whole puzzle
together. People who
commit this type of
crime eventually will
tell someone, get it off
their chest."
