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Janet Russell <I>McLeary</I> Baxter

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Janet Russell McLeary Baxter

Birth
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
Death
23 Nov 1976 (aged 30)
Norridgewock, Somerset County, Maine, USA
Burial
Farmington, Franklin County, Maine, USA Add to Map
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Janet Baxter is a murder victim. Her body was found stuffed in the trunk of a car teetering on the bank of the Kennebec River in Norridgewock on Nov. 23, 1976. She had been raped and shot in the head and chest. Less than 2 hrs before she had left home to buy cold medicine at a Waterville pharmacy.

As of 1999 her murderer faces a mandatory life sentence under a statute in place in 1976. That sentence is based on his 1964 murder conviction in Illinois for strangling his 19-year-old wife.
Janet Baxter is a murder victim. Her body was found stuffed in the trunk of a car teetering on the bank of the Kennebec River in Norridgewock on Nov. 23, 1976. She had been raped and shot in the head and chest. Less than 2 hrs before she had left home to buy cold medicine at a Waterville pharmacy.

As of 1999 her murderer faces a mandatory life sentence under a statute in place in 1976. That sentence is based on his 1964 murder conviction in Illinois for strangling his 19-year-old wife.


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