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2006-10-18
[Bangor, Maine, Easter Sunday. EXCERPT FROM RADIO: State police are investigating two deadly shootings. Both victims were convicted of sexually abusing... EXCERPT FROM RADIO: Two men]
LINDEN MACINTYRE (HOST):
Bangor, Maine, Easter Sunday.
EXCERPT FROM RADIO:
State police are investigating two deadly shootings. Both victims were convicted of sexually abusing...
EXCERPT FROM RADIO:
Two men are dead while a third man State Police are calling a person of interest is still on the loose.
LINDEN MACINTYRE (HOST):
Easter is supposed to be about rebirth. For three families, Easter Sunday this year was about death. Bullets dumped in a bus terminal washroom. A trail leading quickly to a killer. And by the day's end, a showdown.
DAVID VALDEZ-GREENWOOD (COLLEGE TEACHER):
When the next one yelling, "I have someone down. There's someone down. He doesn't have a pulse." She said, "I need a compress, somebody give me a shirt, so I'd given her my sweater.
JOANNE CZARNECKI (MEDICAL TECHNICIAN, NEW YORK):
I was trying to hold his head up. You know, I mean he was alive to me.
LINDEN MACINTYRE (HOST):
His name was Stephen Alexander Marshall. He was 20 years old, remarkable only for his shyness that most of his friends and relatives found charming. It has become a modern cliché, the sudden irrational act of mayhem by someone considered to be normal, a small town high school in Colorado, an urban college in Montreal, a tiny school-house in rural Pennsylvania: all scenes of unanticipated violence followed by a sense of shocked confusion. This is the story of one such tragedy and the making of an unlikely killer from an unlikely place. Cape Breton Island. Stephen Marshall was just a toddler when his parents came here from Texas, where he was born. Nothing at the beginning of his life would have helped predict how it would end. His mother, Margaret Miles:
MARGARET MILES (STEPHEN MARSHALL'S MOTHER):
Steven was a really easy-going kid. I mean you could take him anywhere, you know. If it was out too late for him, he'd just like find a place and curl up and go to sleep or something, you know? He was really quiet, well behaved.
LINDEN MACINTYRE (HOST):
He lived with his parents in this house on...