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Maine Police Investigating Domestic Violence Homicide Case In Newport

Maine Public | By Nora Flaherty,
Ed Morin
Published January 10, 2020 at 5:01 PM EST

Maine State Police are investigating a domestic violence homicide, the first murder of the year.

Police have charged Frederick Allen with killing his wife, Anielka Allen, at their home in Newport. The Bangor Daily News is reporting that she had filed for divorce the month before, and then withdrew the request a week later.

Regina Rooney, with the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence, says the most dangerous time for a victim of domestic violence is when attempting to leave.

“Most people who are killed as a result of their partner's actions are killed when they're attempting to break free of their partner's control.” Maine's homicide rate in 2018, the most recent year for which data are available, is among the lowest in the country, but, of those, about half were the result of domestic violence.
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Nora Flaherty
Nora is originally from the Boston area but has lived in Chicago, Michigan, New York City and at the northern tip of New York state. Nora began working in public radio at Michigan Radio in Ann Arbor and has been an on-air host, a reporter, a digital editor, a producer, and, when they let her, played records.
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Ed Morin
Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.
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