Tabitha Pursley

A man reports that his girlfriend has hung herself in their bedroom closet
On a late afternoon in Lewiston, Maine, a distress call shattered the quiet of an apartment on Elm Street. On August 5, 2009, Joshua B. Gordon dialed 911 at 5:37 p.m. to make a frantic report: his 23-year-old girlfriend, a White / Caucasian female named Tabitha Pursley, had hanged herself inside their bedroom closet. The initial response to the scene was colored by this report, treating the tragic event as a suicide.

In the days that followed, however, the narrative began to shift. As inv ...

Case of woman found dead in closet now listed as unsolved homicide

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