Mom Seeks FBI Help in 1980 Homicide in Maine of Joyce McLain

[sherry a. smith]

Pam McLain, the mother of homicide victim, Joyce McLain called on state police Sunday - the anniversary of her daughters disappearance - to give the unsolved case to the FBI. She says she has awaited an arrest for 30 years and avoided critizing investigators, since the exhumation of her daughters corpes for 2 years now.

Joyce McLain, a 16-year-old Schenck High School sophomore, was killed sometime during the night of August 8, 1980, apparently while jogging. About 35 hours passed, a rainstorm came, before Peter Larlee found her body in a clearing near electrical lines close to the school's atheletic fields. Her head and neck had been hit with a blunt object.

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