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Robert Joyal

Case from Portland, ME dated Apr 04, 1998

Victim Details

Robert Joyal

December 18, 2022

Male

White / Caucasian

Portland

ME

1998-04-04

1998-04-04

18

Robert

Joyal

No

07/03/2026


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In the early morning hours of April 4, 1998, Robert Joyal, an 18-year-old Caucasian male, was fatally stabbed in a chaotic brawl that erupted in the parking lot of a Denny's restaurant on Congress Street in Portland, Maine. The night had begun with a sense of newfound independence for Joyal, who had just moved out of his family's home in Gorham and into a Portland apartment with a friend. He and his friends were celebrating this new chapter in his life.

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