children. McKee case investigation is reopened NEWPORT - The attorney general's office confirmed Friday the re opening of an investigation of a six-year-old murder of a 35-year-old Pittsfield school teacher. Deputy Attorney General Pasquale Perrino said three, investigators have been assigned to examine "some very good new leads" on the Robert P. McKee case. McKee, a Newport resident and a teacher at the Vickery School in Pittsfield, was found shot to death at a gasoline service station in Newport June 20, 1975. He had received several gunshot wounds in the head. There was $600 missing from the cash register and no money in McKee's wallet. Although some anonymous letters were sent to the police about the murders, no arrests were made. Perrino refused to comment on reports that police were digging for a weapon in Pittsfield or that names of suspects were emerging. The weapon that killed McKee was said to be a small-caliber gun. McKee lived on the Nokomis Road with his wife Dorta and their two
