1976 - Lewiston, Maine.

In the early hours of a November morning in 1976, Dorothy “Dotty” Milliken left her home  to do some late-night laundry in Lewiston, Maine. She never made it back. A local paperboy found her body just before dawn, outside Beal’s Laundromat. She had been beaten to death in what police called a frenzied attack.

Tonia was just seven when her mother was killed—a traumatic loss that reshaped the course of her family’s future. In the years since, she’s worked to understand what happened.

Now, a new book revisits the case, pulling together decades of theories, suspects, new interviews, and questions to form a possible picture of that night. But police are still missing a critical piece of the puzzle: the person that knows who killed Dorothy Milliken.

If you have any information on the murder of Dorothy Milliken, please contact the Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit South at ⁠(207)624-7076⁠ x9. The family is offering a $10k reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for this crime.

Links to order the book, The Murder of Dorothy Milliken: Cold Case in Maine by Sharon Kitchens:

⁠Green Hand Bookshop⁠

Amazon: ⁠https://amzn.to/4mKQL5q⁠

Part of the book proceeds will be donated to the F.A.I.R Lab, a forensic anthropology lab at UNH led by Dr. Amy Michael, a friend of the show.

Episode sources and photos: ⁠⁠https://murdershetold.com/episodes/dorothy-milliken⁠

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