ME ME - Chester Carruthers, 15, Shot once in the head, Body left in woods, Harrison, Reported missing 13 Aug 1976, Body found 13 May 1981

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Carruthers, Chester​

Case date: 1981
Town: Harrison

On 08/13/76, Caruthers' mother reported her son had been missing for two weeks. On 05/13/81, human remains were discovered behind a residence off Route 35 in Harrison, Maine. They were later identified as Caruthers.

Unsolved Homicide Unit | Maine State Police



The investigation into the murder of Chester Carruthers was old when it arrived on Peter Herring’s desk.

Carruthers, a 15-year-old Harrison boy, had disappeared in 1976, but his body wasn’t found until 1981, when a neighbor’s pet dog arrived home carrying a skull. Carruthers had been shot once in the head shortly after his disappearance, his body left in the woods a quarter-mile from his house.

Herring, then a homicide investigator with the Maine State Police, was charged with trying to uncover the long, cold trail of the killer. Herring tracked down a suspect, but could never pull together enough evidence to make an arrest and be sure of a conviction.

Excerpt from Detectives shake the dust from unsolved murder cases

 

[Jenesaisquoi]

Good luck Herring. From my point of view as a websleuther, cold cases are just as interesting as current cases, and the impact of the murder on other family members is stark.

Here in the UK, there are some unsolved cases that I remember from the news in my childhood, or coinciding with other milestones in my life. So there are plenty of people still interested in doing what they can to help.

 

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