Mary Ellen Tanner

Murdered

A woman leaves a party and is found murdered 2 days later
On July 9, 1978, the body of 18-year-old Mary Ellen Tanner was discovered in a field near Gracie Evans Airfield in Lyman, Maine. She had been brutally beaten to death. Tanner, a popular Kennebunk High School student and majorette, had been missing for two days after attending a series of parties with friends in Kennebunk on July 7. She was last seen being dropped off at the intersection of Routes 9 and 35, known as Cooper's Corner, by her friends. Two days later, her body was found about six mil ...Read More

Maine Unsolved: Mary Ellen Tanner - Murder, She Told

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