Lie detector test, rope, bible figure as evidence in Olenchuk case by Ken Buckley, BDN, 09 Sep 1970

f KENNEBUNK More than one person has undergone a lie 'detector tesUn i .connection with Lie Detector Test, Rope, Bible Figure As Evidence In Olencliuk Case O By KEN BUCKLEY since she had been severely wanted. Or, was it a chance warned about such enticements, to go fishing? ,oul Was it possible that while she 1 The puzzle surrounding the sought a newspaper downtown lure is equally as confusing as dlS the Mary Catherine Olenchuk iher unanswered requests in a ! murder, state police affirmed stdre were overheard and she , mentor acx attack hafac" , , , , iment, or a sex anacx, mar ac-i was followed home by someone cordmg to an autopsy was never Tuesday., The results of such tests are not considered 'conclusive. State Police Lt. Charles-. R. Bruton said, anymore than they are acceptable in Maine courts, and are used mainly as a tool of investigation. At the same time, the chief investigator in the slaying probe declined to discuss the piece of rope used to strangle the 13-year old daughter of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Peter Olenchuk of Ogun-quit and Joliet, 111., Aug. 9. That is a very important piece of evidence in the case, who offered her the paper she carried out. ... ...... - the lieutenant said, preferring to keep details qf the rope and the lie detector tests ' under in-LTaps while police continue to ,he ,d William J. Conner, county executive of New Castle County, Delaware, will address the pro-Services, Police found the rope tied around the girls neck. Her body was found in a large deserted barn on the Riverhurst estate at Kennebunk on Aug. 22. Bruton, asked about a report that a Bible was found in the barn at the same time the girls body was discovered, acknowledged the fact. But he said the Bible was in no way related to the case. While the barn is deserted the area surrounding it has seldom been free from fishermen who cross a large field near the barn to fish the Mousam River. Earlier in the year campers were also driven off the field below the barn. But wdth all the activity in and around the barn of the deserted estate no one appears to recall an isolated incident of a young girl and a man going there. ' , To have reached the barn bv Need For Strong County Setup To Be Emphasized Curtis Says No To Request For Special Session AUGUSTA Gov. Kenneth ;j'gS" Association of Counties of Maine Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at Pilots Grill. His talk will stress the need for strong county organization and close cooperation among county, state and municipal governments. Conner will speak as first vice president of the National Association of Coun to M. Curtis has denied a request for a special session of the legislature to reconsider passage of Medicaid medical care modernizing their system of county government. Consideration also will be given to the hiring of an executive secretary for low-mcome working fam- for tbe county association and possible legislation for home rule in Maine. Conner will be accompanied Maine will discuss revising and car the irls abductor would j.:.... , have to have driven around a padlocked cable at the foot of the driveway to the estate, including his wav between clumps of pine trees. Bruton said it was quite possible to have done this. What ploy was used to entice the young gipl into the car near her summer home at Ogunquit Aug. 9 is undecided. And for a girl who loved her dog and I fishing it would have to have for,been something stronger than a piece of bubblegum. Her father commented before his daughter was found that if Mary Catherine had gotten into ? car, 8 man she would meet- nave 113(1 lo have known him Man Mistaken For Bear Still On T'aner List Shot when he was mistaken for a bear Monday night at Carroll, a 60-year old Freedom man remained on a hospital danger list Tuesday night. ilies.' Three candidates for teh legislature from Bangor Dorothy Doyle, Jay McCloskey and,,. .. . T Tony Redington-asked the hl (e if." nfLoni C governor two weeks ago to callj"eJ; f Delaware a special session to expedite islale lelsIature. the implementation of needed Delegates from 16 counties in medical care services. In his replv to the Bangor residents Curtis sai.d there is litle guarantee that the legislature as composed by its present members would enact Medicaid after recently turning it down twice. ell said no legislator has encouraged him to call a special session. A prooosal to snend an additional $590090 resulting in an increase of $1 million in federal funds benefiting about 10.000 Maine citizens passed overwhelmingly in the House in a snecial session earlier this year, but W'as defeated in the closing davs in the Senate. The three candidates, In a joint statement Tuesday, said. We are of course disappointed that Gov. Curtis does not feel it is advisable to call a legislative session at this time. However, we can certainly understand his nosit:on in view of the re-ieetion of human-oriented legislation bv the Renuhlican-dorn-inated lO-tth I pcislature. We can only hope that the people of Bangor and the state realize that no Republican in the city of Bangor among the six on the legislative slate saw fit to sneak out on this vital issue. to of s to to International Officials at Eastern Maine Medical Center at Ban8or said Raymond Ward underwent sur gery late Monday night for a gunshot wound sustained earlier in the evening and thas his condition was unchanged. Ward was shot in the right thigh by Hubert Oliver, 36, of Lee, who saw Ward running along the edge of a cornfield off Route 6. Oliver and Alfred Clemons of Lee, were driving along Route 6 when both bear hunters saw something run across the highway. Oliver drove into his fathers yard, left the pickup truck, and viewed the object through a four power rifle telescope before firing.

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Lie detector test, rope, bible figure as evidence in Olenchuk case by Ken Buckley, BDN, 09 Sep 1970

Lie detector test, rope, bible figure as evidence in Olenchuk case by Ken Buckley, BDN, 09 Sep 1970

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