Forever Young: The Story of Rebecca Pelkey, Part One

Murder, She Told

Kristen Seavey

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

1988 - Hermon, Maine. This episode contains a heavy amount of uncensored explicit language. Inside the neon splashed walls of the Bangor Arcade, Erica and Melanie waited for their friend, 14-year-old Rebecca “Becky” Pelkey. Becky was late, and the clock was ticking. Not only was Becky no-showing, but so was her new friend, 24-year-old Ronald Boobar, who they’d hung out with the previous night. One week later, the newspaper released a description of an unidentified young woman who had been found dead in the woods. It was Becky. The day that she was identified, police spoke individually with her friends. They waited to talk to Ron last. In a quiet room, just after midnight, Ron Boobar sat at the Bangor Police dept with two detectives. They set up a cassette recording device on the table, and hit record…. This is the story of Becky Pelkey, told through her family, and original transcripts and court records. This is an MMIW case from Maine. Becky is part of the Aroostook Band of Mi'kmaqs, one of Maine’s Native tribes. By sharing her story, we are keeping her name alive and bringing awareness to the epidemic that is violence against Indigenous women and girls. Detailed sources can be found on murdershetold.com Connect on Instagram @murdershetoldpodcast Support the show here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Murder She Told, true crime stories from Maine, New England and small town USA.
0:19.3	I'm Kristen Ceevy.
0:21.1	You can connect with a show at MurderSheTold.com or on Instagram at MurderSheToldPodcast.
0:31.0	This episode contains uncensored explicit language.
0:35.0	It also includes a recreation of a suspect interview from the original transcripts.
0:40.0	The dialogue has not been edited or censored in any way.
0:43.0	That being said, both the police and the suspect say some particularly awful things, especially about the victim.
0:50.0	I felt that this was important to include, as originally said, despite this.
0:55.0	Please listen with care.
1:00.0	The smell of heated circuitry hung in the air.
1:08.0	The clamor of 80 synth sounds droned on, becoming background noise.
1:12.0	Growns of disappointment from the players and cheers of excitement from the spectators marked time in this windowless place.
1:20.0	Thin, dark colored, wild patterned carpet covered every square inch.
1:25.0	Gum was discarded, trampled, and assimilated into it.
1:30.0	Spilled soda would vanish into the dark abyss of the rug.
1:34.0	Black lights made the neon patterns on it glow.
1:37.0	The ting, ting, ting of the change dispenser ejecting quarters was a siren call to break just one more paper bill into its metal components.
1:46.0	Gracie fingered pizza-eating teenagers, smashed buttons, manipulated joysticks, and fired guns.
1:54.0	Even young kids would schlep footstools to their favorite games so that they could join their older siblings.
2:00.0	Erica, who had just turned 13 and her friend Melanie around the same age, were there, hanging out at the Bangor arcade, wasting time, waiting for their friend to arrive.
2:12.0	They had already done a few laps, seeing who they recognized and hoping to find Becky.
2:18.0	She was supposed to be there by 5.30 pm, but she was already 10 minutes late.
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