I started following this case because of the geography. I lived in Falmouth within a couple miles of where Annaliese's car was found when I was very young 100 years ago. I have also lived in or had family in Topsham, Bath, Woolwich, Gardiner, and Dresden. Not Richmond where Annaliese is from, but from all the towns around there. Talking to family still in that area and occasionally reading the local paper online (Times Record) over the years I have been intrigued by the murder cases in the area.
1) Dennis Dechaine, Bowdoinham, convicted of murdering a 12 year old child in 1988
2) Olland Reese, Bowdoin, convicted of murdering a 16 year old child in 2002
3) Dominic Sylvester, Bowdoinham, convicted of murdering his grandmother in 2019.
Is there something in the water there? I would have a hard time distinguishing between Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, and Richmond so I count 3 murders and a missing person from a regional area of about 9,000 people total. But I haven't heard of a single murder or missing person from Topsham, Bath, Brunswick, Dresden, Wiscasset, etc in the last 30 years.