Justice For Joyce McLain

Murder, She Told

Kristen Seavey

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

1980 - East Millinocket, Maine. In 1980, 16-year-old Joyce McLain went out for a jog one hot summer day and never came back. Two days later, her body was behind her East Millinocket high school bludgeoned to death. Who would do this to such a well loved young woman? Over the years her mother fought like hell to keep this case in the interest of the public, and even successfully petitioned Unsolved Mysteries to cover it. But despite the national attention, Joyce's case sat unsolved for nearly four decades... until one day, a new team takes over the case and realizes the killer may be a lot closer to home than they thought. This is the story of one of Maine's longest homicide investigations and one of its most recently solved cold cases, the murder of Joyce McLain. SIGN DANIELLE'S PETITION Detailed sources can be found on murdershetold.com Connect on Instagram @murdershetoldpodcast and on Facebook. 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.
0:18.4	I am your host, Kristen Ceevy.
0:20.6	You can connect with me and suggest your hometown crime at MurderShe Told.com and follow me on
0:25.9	Instagram at MurderShe Told podcast.
0:30.2	Before we get started, I just have a little bit of housekeeping.
0:36.1	We still need a lot more signatures for the petition.
0:39.2	If you haven't signed the petition for Danielle and Sheila, please take a moment to sign it.
0:43.7	I'll only get in the show notes.
0:48.8	This week's story is a story of hope, but before it became a story of hope, it was one
0:54.4	of Maine's longest homicide investigations in the state's history and one of its most
0:59.5	famous cold cases.
1:02.2	At what point do you give up hope after one decade, two, three?
1:09.2	But this tragic case is solved and justice has been served.
1:14.8	In this nearly 40 year, very public investigation serves as a reminder that if this case can
1:21.1	be solved after that much time has passed, maybe others can too.
1:26.6	Every victim deserves to be remembered, and every case has the potential to be solved,
1:31.9	no matter how cold.
1:34.5	This is the story of the murder of Joyce McClain.
1:43.2	It was the summer of 1980 in East Millenocket, and all the kids were getting ready for the
1:48.2	upcoming school year, milking those final last days of Maine summer and wishing it would
1:53.4	never end.
1:56.0	The summer must have been a well-deserved break for 16-year-old Joyce McClain, and she
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