198. ‘Unsolveable’ Alice Hawkes murder solved

About this episode

The episode revisits the Alice Hawkes murder case after an arrest was made, challenging previous beliefs about its solvability.

When we featured Alice Hawkes’ 1987 homicide in Episode 191 as one of our Maine Cold Cases of the 1980s, Maureen declared that it would never be “solved,” though there was s definite suspect. Well, she was wrong! Maine State Police announced an arrest May 8. We revisit the case with many of our questions […]

People in this episode

Host: Maureen

Topics covered

• cold cases
• homicide
• true crime
• Maine
• unsolved cases

Keywords

• Alice Hawkes
• murder
• cold case
• Maine State Police
• 1987 homicide

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Maine

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