Re: Received this from a friend today (gun deaths related)

Sept. 5, 2006, 1:40PM
4 dead in Maine killing spree, 3 at inn


By GLENN ADAMS Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press

NEWRY, Maine - Four people were slaughtered during a four-day killing spree
in southern Maine's mountain ski country, and a 31-year-old cook who had
been living at an inn where three victims died was charged Tuesday with
murder.

Detectives say Christian Nielsen told them he first killed a local man on
Friday, then two days later attacked the owner of the Black Bear Bed &
Breakfast where he had been renting a room, according affidavits filed
Tuesday as Nielsen made his initial court appearance.

The owner's 30-year-old daughter and a friend were killed when they arrived
at the inn unexpectedly on Monday, the state police affidavits said.

Nielsen was charged with four counts of murder and ordered held without
bail. He smiled as he left Oxford County Superior Court.

State police were alerted Monday evening by family members who had arrived
at the Black Bear to find a woman's body and blood outside the restored
farmhouse near the Sunday River ski resort. Nielsen's father told troopers
he thought his son was involved, according to court documents.

The bodies of inn owner Julie Bullard, 65, her daughter Selby, and Cindy
Beatson, 43, were all found outside the home.

Nielsen later took a detective to a wooded are where the remains of the
fourth victim, James Whitehurst, 50, were found north of Grafton Notch State
Park, about 15 miles from the inn, the documents said.

Nielsen had been working at another bed and breakfast in nearby Bethel, the
Sudbury Inn.

Nancy White, co-owner of the Sudbury Inn, was stunned to learn that the cook
she and her husband had hired this summer had been arrested for murder. She
described him as a reliable employee, a good cook and "soft-spoken, quiet
individual."
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And just to think a simple psyche test could have stopped this.

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