Shirley Coolen

Death by Force

On the evening of May 26, 1951, 24-year-old white female Shirley Mae Coolen was last seen leaving her shift at the Bowdoin Hotel restaurant in Brunswick, Maine. She had arranged to meet her ex-husband, Guy Coolen, near the Pastime Theater on Park Row, hoping for a reconciliation. When she failed to return home, her family was not immediately alarmed, as Shirley, a single mother of a five-year-old daughter, often kept her own schedule.

Three days later, on May 29, a housekeeper discovered ...Read More

156. Charles Terry, Shirley Coolen, and the Boston Strangler

Obituary for Shirley M. (Blair) Coolen | Waitt Funeral Home

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