A body believed to be that of a Maine resident missing since 2002 has been discovered in the front yard of his former house, in what police are now calling a homicide.
Charles Woodburn was last seen alive in 2002. The 51-year-old man was never reported missing by his then-wife, Diana Darling, according to police...
Police acting on a tip from a family member arrived at the missing man's old property in Jefferson last week accompanied by a cadaver dog and found a human skeleton buried in a shallow grave along a stone wall, Bangor Daily News reported.
The Maine State Medical Examiner has ruled the death a homicide. Pathologists are still in the process of trying to positively identify the corpse.
The woman passed away in 2010 at age 54.
