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Joseph Eaton modified into picked up from Maine Correctional Heart by his mother correct four days before he says he shot her, his father and their two friends whose home the Eaton family modified into staying at
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After four of us contain been chanced on shot unimaginative at a home in Maine, police contain encounter a cryptic note at the scene.
34-yr-used Joseph Eaton has been charged with four counts of homicide after confessing to killing his parents and their friends at the friends’ dwelling in Bowdoin, Maine.
Eaton had been picked up from Maine Correctional Heart in Windham on Friday, April 14, by his mother – Cynthia Eaton.
He had been serving a sentence for aggravated assault – a criminal offense severe adequate to quit him from possessing a gun in Maine.
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On April 18 the bodies of Eaton’s parents, Cynthia, 62, and David Eaton, 66, as smartly as their friends Robert Eger, 72, and Patti Eger, 62, contain been chanced on at the Eger’s dwelling.
Robert, Patti and Cynthia contain been all chanced on for the duration of the home in the aloof metropolis of Bowdoin. David modified into chanced on outdoor in a barn.
Col. Ross stated in a press conference on April 19: “[Eaton] modified into picked up on April 14 at the correctional heart by his mother, Cynthia, and they drove to the procedure in Bowdoin the attach the murders took plight.”
Police sing any person cessation to the family visited the property on the fateful Tuesday morning, with experiences it modified into Patti’s sister, the attach the grotesque discovery modified into made.
Based fully on an affadavit cited by the Bangor Day-to-day Information, the sister saw blood on the entrance steps as she approached the home.
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She known as out but bought no resolution, then saw the broken glass and blood on the ground along with a male body in the kitchen covered with a towel.
She then stumbled on a cryptic note on the kitchen island, unsigned and no longer addressed to anyone.
It merely stated that any person had been molested and no one did anything about it.
A day before the murders are thought to contain taken plight, Joseph Eaton posted a chilling video to social media, beginning for forgiveness.
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In the video he’ll even be heard ranting about dealing with trauma for a lengthy time, as he sobs into the digicam.
In the chilling video posted by Eaton, he stated: “Valid must take a search for at to forgive me for the things I did. I really contain been dealing with trauma for a lengthy time on things I don’t focus on over with of us about.
“Being molested and stuff. It destroys any person. I know I’m accurate for my teenagers. I correct wish of us would forgive me, you know, some of us. I don’t salvage it.”
Eaton seemed in court on Thursday, April 20, and modified into asked by Superior Court docket Justice Daniel Billings if he understood the bills. He modified into no longer asked to enter pleas as he has but to be indicted by the Sagadahoc County grand jury.
Eatons’ subsequent court appearance is plight for June 28.
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Along with the four deaths in the Bowdoin dwelling, Eaton reportedly shot at a number of cars along the motorway, injuring three.
Sean Halsey, 51, and his two childhood, Justin Halsey, 29, and Paige Halsey, 25, all of Bowdoinham, contain been wounded after the vehicle they contain been travelling in come Yarmouth modified into shot at.
Whereas the males suffered injuries no longer regarded as existence-threatening, Paige Halsey modified into severely injured.
On Wednesday, April 19, Sean Halsey stated his daughter’s breathing tube had been eliminated and she modified into convalescing.
If convicted of homicide, Eaton is facing 25 years to existence in reformatory. Maine regulation states judges may maybe maybe well impose existence sentences on defendants convicted of more than one homicides.