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Nov 17, 2000 · On 1 November 2000, Maine's Penobscot County grand jury formally charged confessed killer James Hicks, 49, with the murders of Jerilyn Towers and Lynn Willette. Hicks served six years of a 10-year prison sentence for killing his first wife, 23-year-old Jennie Hicks, who disappeared from the couple's Carmel home in 1977.
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However, Jerilyn’s disappearance led the cops to look deeper into Jennie’s case, and they found enough to bring charges against him. The prosecution relied heavily on the testimony of Susan Mately, a live-in babysitter who had stayed with the Hicks in 1977. Mately spoke about the Hicks’s deteriorating marriage and how he had reacted angrily and per...
After his release from prison in 1990, Hicks found a job at a motel in Brewer, ME., where he met Lynn Willette. The pair lived together in an apartment in the town. Unfortunately, Hicks was still a killer, and in 1996 he murdered Lynn. The police suspected he had killed her, but once again, they didn’t have the evidence to hold him. By the year 200...
Hicks had scattered the remains of Jennie and Lynn Willette across various parts of Maine and also admitted to throwing some of the body parts into a nearby river. The police brought in cadaver dogs and began searching a number of different sites across the state to try to find the rest of the remains, but they soon concluded that too much time had...
Oct 31, 2023 · James Rodney Hicks was convicted for the murder of his then-wife, Jennie Cyr. He also confessed to killing Lynn Willette, his then-girlfriend, and Jerilyn Towers, a then-34-year-old single mother who had the misfortune of crossing paths with him at a bar.
Dec 15, 2020 · Susan’s verbal testimony gave police enough circumstantial evidence to indict James Hicks on a murder charge in the disappearance of Jennie from 1977, and on Oct 5th, 1983, he was arrested without bail. There was only one major issue surrounding the case: there was no body, no blood, and no physical evidence.
Dec 15, 2020 · Upon his return to Maine, on October 10th, James Rodney Hicks was formally charged with the murder of Lynn Willette. This was the only confession so far, and he couldn’t be charged again with Jennie’s murder.
Oct 6, 2009 · Each woman had a relationship with James Hicks, who in 2000 confessed to murdering them, dismembering their bodies and burying the remains alongside rural roads in Aroostook County. This is their...
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After interviewing bar patrons, Robinson discovers the individual was James Hicks. Officer Robinson questions James “Jimmy” Hicks at Hicks’ home in Etna, Maine. Hicks denies being at the bar on October 16 and says he knows nothing about Jerilyn’s disappearance.