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Al2 The Berkshire Eagle, Sunday, August 21, 1988 irk! 41 ri. 4 illystery in Maine Solution actively sought in missing-person cases 8 '''1 NORTHEAST loommumum Is By Arthur Frederick United Press International AUGUSTA, Maine -L Gail Delano, Stephen Thompson, Kaye Johnson and Kim Moreau never knew each other, but they have something in common all four disappeared in Maine within a few weeks of each other in 1986, and none have been seen or heard from since. There is no indication of any connection between the disappearances, and all were from different communities. But many of the circumstances are eerily similar, and all four people vanished without a trace. Police investigating Thompson's disappearance have been puzzled by a number of factors since he disappeared from his office sometime before 8:30 a.m.

on June 2, 1986. His wife had driven him to work at his Oakland office, so his car was not available to him. He was apparently happy with his job and his family, and he had no large debts or other problems. And there was no sign of a struggle. "He had made plans that morning to have lunch with his wife, and he had made plans to play golf with a friend that afternoon," said patrolman Michael Tracy of the Oakland Police Department.

"He had a stable family life, and the family was just starting to get ahead luaus UPI the state Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife were all in the search, and we have just come up against a total blank wall." The fourth case involved Riniberly Moreau, a 17-year-old girl from Jay. She disappeared without a trace in May 1986, and has not been heard from since. State police Detective Richard Pickett said Moreau had spent the evening with a boy, and then asked him to let her out of the car about a half-mile from her home so she could walk the rest of the way. She never arrived. "He dropped her off in the middle of Chisolm Square, between Livermore Falls and Jay, at her request," Pickett said.

"She has not been seen or heard from since that date. It is almost like she dropped off the face of the earth." In two of the cases, there were factors that could indicate it was at least possible that the people may have left the area voluntarily. Delano had suffered from depression and had been treated for mirior mental problems; Johnson was being sued by some members of her family over the estate of a relative who had recently died. But the families of both Thompson and Moreau insist there was 'po reason for the two to disappear, and that running away would have been out of character for both of them. And Delano's family believes the woman was the victim of some kind of foul play.

something has happened to her, and we think the police are coming more and more to that conclusion," Delano's mother said. 111 want to have it cleared up, but I rh terrified in a way. "But we have to find out and put it to rest," she said. Wieners on a roll Looking like vehicles from outer space, three Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles take to the streets as they begin their 1988 Hometown Tour of America. The vehicles, 23 feet long and 10 feet high, can travel at a speed somewhere between a speeding bullet and ketchup pouring from a bottle.

urday -with the man at Old Orchard Beach, a summer resort area south of Portland. When Delano did not return home, the police were notified. Her car was found several days later in the parking lot of a Howard Johnson's Restaurant in Brunswick, but there was no sign of the woman. The keys to Delano's Toyota were found near the back entrance to the restaurant. Her pocketbook was found several days later on the other side of the parking lot, even though a careful police search had failed to find it several days earlier.

Like the Thompson case, there was no sign of a struggle, and there has been no word from the 35-yearold woman since. "There has not been a single trace," said Betty Monfort, Delano's mother. "It was like a helicopter scooped her up, leaving her handbag and her keys and her car right there." About a month later, far to the north in rural Monson, a young woman returned home after spending the night with friends. Her grandmother, Kaye Johnson, was not at home. Johnson was 80 and needed a cane to walk, but her cane was still in the house, along with her cigarettes, lighter and glasses.

Police searched the area with dogs, but could not find the woman, and no trace of her has ever been found. "There isn't a lot to tell, she still hasn't been found," said Sgt. John Goggin of the Piscatiquis County Sheriff's Department. "This department and the state police and Maine farm offers a haven for abandoned creatures Many of the circumstances are eerily similar. animal anymore, Goodreau said "People get animals for the wrong reasons," said Lawrence Keddy, president of the society.

"The typical thing that happens is, here's a pretty nice family and a starving horse. The horse belonged to a daughter who went away to college and she asked her brother to care for it. But he's in watching TV." It costs $1,500 a year to feed and care for a horse. Besides hay and grain for feed, a horse needs to be checked frequently by a veterinarian and have its hooves trimmed every six weeks. Goodreau said.

"People don't know good hay from bad hay," she said. Good hay stays green all winter and bad hay has no nutritional value and "is like giving a horse toilet paper," she said. Goodreau told of the horse named Easter, whose owners were getting a divorce and, out of spite, were not feeding him: The stable door had been nailed shut with Easter inside for four days when the society took him in. "His heart was skipping beats he was nearly gone," Goodreau said. She spent the first night in the pasture at the society farm with the horse to make sure he did not lie down.

That would be a sign that he had given up. "He'd start to buckle and I'd get under his chest and pound him to make him stand up," she said. Today he is healthy and the only signs of abuse are several places on his body where the hair is discolored. Recently, the society took in a mare and her foal, who was in need of surgery to correct an umbilical hernia, a procedure the owner could not afford. Goodreau took the foal to the Rochester Equine Center in Rochester, N.H., for care.

The bill: $2,000. By Lyn Riddle New York Times News Service SOUTH WINDHANI, Maine Marilyn Goodreau works from noon to midnight taking care of nine horses, six ponies, five goats, two geese, a rabbit and a i. rooster on 200 acres of rolling farmland in southern Maine. Usually, there are more animals to be cared for; rarely are there fewer. All were no longer wanted by the people who had them or they had been mistreated.

"You wouldn't believe some of the things," said Goodreau, the director of the Maine state Society for the Protection of Animals, which operates the farm. The farm is now home to Easter, a quarter horse who was so thin he could hardly stand up, and to Mumma, a horse who had been blinded in one eye. Peter, a rabbit, was put in the society's care with a leg broken in three places, the result of tugging by children to whom he had been an Easter gift. The society, a non-profit, privately run organization with 5,000 members, was founded in 1872 to protect horses drawing streetcars in Portland. It set up the farm in 1978 after board members learned that many large animals were facing euthanasia because there was no place to take them.

The 57 animal shelters in Maine that attend to dogs and cats lack facilities for large animals, Goodreau said. So far, the society has cared for thousands of animals, she said Space permitting, the society will take any large animal for any reason, except if the owner is seeking euthanasia for an old animal, she said. Sometimes the animals are brought in by state agents who have seized them through court proceedings for humane reasons. More often, the owner just does not want the Thompson, who lived in Water, ille, managed the la, Schwan's Ice Cream facility. A ialf-finished report to the home office was on his desk, along with his pipe and his keys; items that he was never without.

In the two years since his disappearance, no one has used Thompson's credit cards, Tracy said. Thompson's wife and two daughters have moved back to their home state of Illinois, Tracy said, but Thompson's wife recently came back and took a routine polygraph test, which she passed. "Everything was going well for him," Tracy said. "He was starting to make some decent money." Less than three weeks later, Gail Delano left the home she shared in Westport with her two sons and drove to Brunswick, where she planned to meet a man she had met through the personal ads of a weekly newspaper, She had told relatives she planned to spend Sat Speeding tickets prompt challenges, BOSTON (UPI) The state's newly increased schedule of fines for speeding has prompted a surge of court challenges by motorists and complaints by local law enforcement officials, a published report said Friday. The new schedule, which- took effect July 26, changes the previous flat fine of $50 for speeding to a rate that increases by $10 for each mile per hour after the first 10 miles per hour by which the limit is exceeded.

The money from the higher fines is being kept by the state, however, prompting complaints from municipalities that are facing higher enforCiment costs for their police and court systems, The Boston Globe said "We're tax collectors now," said Anthony Colonna, the clerk magistrate at Framingham District Court. "We're the tax collectors, and the police are the assessors." Colonna and other district court officials said they are', experiencing up to a 50 percent increase in the number of requests for hearings from motorists ticketed for speeding, the newspaper said. "If you get handed a $200 ticket, your reaction is going to be, 'I'm going to fight' this. thing' and at least try to argue the price down in court," said Frederick Gillis, first assistant for Chelsea District Court. The most expensive ticket issued so far under the new system was for $700, meaning the driver allegedly would have been traveling 80 mph over the speed limit, state police said.

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