Mary Ellen Tanner

A woman leaves a party and is found murdered 2 days later
On a hot and humid Sunday in July of 1978, the body of 18-year-old Mary Ellen Tanner, a white female, was discovered in a grassy field in Lyman, Maine. A pilot taking off from the small airstrip known as Gracie Evans Field spotted her partially clothed body and alerted the authorities. An autopsy would later reveal that the Kennebunk High School senior had been beaten to death with a blunt object. It was also discovered that she was pregnant at the time of her death. Due to the state of her body ...

Maine Unsolved: Mary Ellen Tanner - Murder, She Told

Episode 49: The Murder of Mary Tanner - True Crime New England