A man's body is found 5 days after he failed to show up for work In the summer of 1992, the small town of Fryeburg, Maine, was unsettled by the discovery of the body of 39-year-old David Mair, a local man. His absence had begun to cause concern when he failed to show up for his job at Veno Electric in nearby Conway, New Hampshire, on Friday, July 10, 1992, an act that was out of character for him. The last time anyone had seen him was the previous day, Thursday, July 9, when he left work in his gray van. For nearly a week, his whereabouts remained a mystery.
The search for him came to a grim end on July 15, 1992, when his body was found in the woods off an old logging road situated behind his own residence.
The discovery of David Mair's body launched a homicide investigation by the Maine State Police. The case, however, would prove to be a complex and frustrating one, with years passing without a resolution. It was a lingering question in the community, a story whispered about but with no official conclusion. Then, in August of 1994, a significant development broke in the case. Authorities arrested a suspect, a young man who was intimately connected to the victim. The suspect was David Mair's own son, who was 20 years old at the time of his arrest in Lewiston.
The arrest of the victim's son was a shocking turn of events, suggesting a familial tragedy of the darkest kind. He was taken into custody for the fatal shooting of his father. His arrest was reportedly linked to an association with another individual who was also facing a murder charge. During a separate trial for robbery involving the younger Mair, it was revealed that jurors had been exposed to a news report about his father's death which mentioned that he was being sought for questioning.
Despite the arrest of a primary suspect, the path to justice in the death of David Mair has remained unclear. Publicly available information regarding the outcome of the murder charge against his son is scarce. There are no readily accessible records detailing a conviction or an acquittal in the case. In the years that followed, the younger David Mair would have other encounters with the law for unrelated serious crimes in the same area. Yet, the death of his father, David Mair, officially remains an unsolved homicide in the files of the Maine State Police, leaving a lingering sense of unresolved tragedy in the Fryeburg community.
