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Tragedy in the North Woods:: The Murders of James Hicks
Contributor(s): Scee, Trudy Irene (Author)
ISBN: 1596295503     ISBN-13: 9781596295506
Publisher: History Press
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2009
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Annotation: Jennie Cyr disappeared in 1977. Jerilyn Towers vanished in 1982. Lynn Willette never came home on a night in 1994. 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 story.

Trudy Irene Scee follows Hicks from the North Woods to West Texas, detailing three decades of evasion, investigation and prosecution. She interviews police officers and victims families and finds Hicks at the state prison in Thomaston, where he remains silent and remorseless as he lives out his days behind bars. Thoroughly researched and carefully documented, "Tragedy in the North Woods" is the definitive history of one of Maine's most ruthless killers.

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | Murder - Serial Killers
- History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt)
- Biography & Autobiography | Criminals & Outlaws
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2009017423
Series: True Crime
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.02" W x 8.9" (0.47 lbs) 128 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1970's
- Chronological Period - 1980's
- Chronological Period - 1990's
- Chronological Period - 21st Century
- Geographic Orientation - Maine
 
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Publisher Description:

The tragic story of the murders of three women committed over three decades by one cold-blooded man in Maine's North Woods.


Jennie Cyr disappeared in 1977. Jerilyn Towers vanished in 1982. Lynn Willette never came home on a night in 19


Contributor Bio(s): Scee, Trudy Irene: - Trudy Scee is a former Adjunct Professor of History at Husson College, in Bangor. She has taught for the University of Maine System and for Mount Allison University, in Sackville, New Brunswick. She has also worked as a journalist and written four books, including Trudy Scee's Dictionary of Maine Words and Phrases (self-published, 2006), N. H. Bragg & Sons, 150 Years of Service to the Maine Community and Economy (self-published, 2004), The Inmates and the Asylum: The Bangor Children's Home, 1836-2002 (Tilbury House, 2002) and
In the Deeds We Trust: Baxter State Park, 1970-1995 (Tower Publishing, 1999).