Florence Estelle Norcross Lauze

A woman's body is found in a culvert in Sherman Lake Maine
In the late summer of 1975, the quiet town of Newcastle, Maine, became the scene of a mystery that would endure for decades. On the morning of August 16th, a father and son heading to a fishing spot at Sherman Lake made a grim discovery. In a culvert near the water, they found the body of a young Caucasian woman, later identified as 19-year-old Florence E. Lauze of Brockton, Massachusetts. The cause of her death was determined to be strangulation, a violent end to a life that was just beginning. ...

Forty-Five Years On, a Newcastle Murder Remains Unsolved

Brockton woman's 1975 murder in Maine remains mystery over four ...