GUILTY ME - Mikaela Conley, 19, raped and strangled, Bar Harbor, 2 June 2018

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BAR HARBOR, Maine. (WABI) - Maine State Police said the body found alongside a Bar Harbor street Saturday has been identified as 19-year-old Mikaela Conley.

Authorities said Conley had been reported missing by her family to the Bar Harbor Police and an "extensive search” took place Saturday.

That's where they say State Police K-9 found her body around noontime, near the intersection of Route 3 and West Street.

Police said, an autopsy began Sunday at the State Medical Examiner's Office in Augusta and additional work remains.

State Police Detectives were out Sunday investigating and will continue to investigate on Monday.

Anyone with information on Conley's death is encouraged to call State Police in Bangor at 973-3700.

Maine State Police identify body found Saturday in Bar Harbor

 

[Gardener1850]

State police say 21-year-old Jalique Keene was taken into custody Monday night at the Bar Harbor Police Department and charged with murder in connection with the death of Mikaela Conley. It wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney who could comment.

State police say Conley was reported missing on Friday and her body was found on Saturday. They have not said how she died.

Keene remains jailed and is expected to appear in court in Ellsworth either Tuesday or Wednesday.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...04/body-of-missing-woman-found-in-wooded-area

 

[Steleheart]

They were friends on FB

Jalique Keene - Jalique Keene
Mikaela Conley - https://www.facebook.com/mikaela.conley.9

 

[Vail]

Bar Harbor woman, alleged killer attended high school together

Keene was a sports star at MDI High School, where he played running back for the school’s football team, graduating in 2015. He went on to play football at West Virginia State University.

I am betting on a drug or alcohol fuelled rape gone too far as there is no indication they were dating.

 

[Steelslady]

They were friends on FB

Jalique Keene - Jalique Keene
Mikaela Conley - https://www.facebook.com/mikaela.conley.9

Oy, this is going to get ugly, judging by some of the comments on JK's page.

 

[AzPistonsGirl]

Bar Harbor man indicted on charges he raped and killed his friend

According to a Maine State Police affidavit on the killing, Conley had driven on May 31 to Boston Logan International Airport to pick up Keene, who was returning from playing football in Serbia, and then had driven him back to Bar Harbor. Keene later told police that after they got back to town he had hung out with Conley at her home on Eden Street, across the street from Conners Emerson School, and in the surrounding neighborhood.

Mikaela Conley died early the next morning of blunt force trauma to her head and by strangulation, Detective Tom Pickering of Maine State Police wrote in the affidavit.

Security camera footage recorded outside the school in the early morning hours of June 1 at one point shows Keene picking up Conley over his shoulder and “walking off with her as she is kicking her feet,” the detective wrote.

 

[iulia]

Jury selection set for murder trial - Mount Desert Islander

BAR HARBOR — Jury selection for the trial of a man accused of murdering a Bar Harbor woman is set to begin Monday, May 20, according to defense attorney Jeffrey Toothaker.
Toothaker represents Jalique Keene, 22, of Bar Harbor, who the Maine State Police said raped and murdered Mikaela Conley, 19.

 

[CaliRoses]

Guilty

Bar Harbor man found guilty in murder of high school friend

A jury of six women and six men returned a verdict of guilty on both counts a few minutes after 5 p.m. Friday in Hancock County Unified Criminal Court in Ellsworth. Keene stood stone-faced as the verdict was read.

About 50 people crowded into the courtroom late Friday afternoon, most of them in support of Conley’s family. Reaction was muted, with several people hugging and crying quietly after the verdict was announced.

Conley’s relatives in the courtroom — which included her mother Danielle Timoney — declined to comment after court was adjourned.

Earlier Friday, Keene testified that he did not murder Conley but that they did have consensual sex the night she was killed. The jury was shown security camera footage Thursday of Keene dragging her body in broad morning daylight into trees behind a building at the school, but he insisted on the stand that he had no memory of moving her body and he could not explain why he moved it.

Keene testified that he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder because of abuse he suffered as a child before he was adopted and moved to Bar Harbor. A psychologist also testified on Friday that he believes Keene could suffer from PTSD because of the abuse and, as a result, could have a dissociative episode in which a traumatic event would wipe his memory blank.

The psychologist, Geoffrey Thorpe, also testified that Keene could be faking a loss of memory about moving Conley’s body in an attempt to avoid being held responsible for her death.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Bar Harbor killer seeks new trial in 2018 schoolyard slaying

A Bar Harbor man serving a 58-year prison sentence for raping and murdering a friend more than two years ago is asking Maine’s highest court to overturn his convictions and grant him a new trial.

 

[Baciagalupo]

Crazy considering the video evidence.