The Disappearance of Pauline Rourke (Maine)

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

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🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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MAINE MISSING PERSON, 1977: When Honey kissed her sleeping mother goodbye before school on December 15, 1977, it was the last time Pauline Rourke was ever seen again. But this isn’t just the case of Pauline Rourke’s disappearance. This is also the story of Janet Baxter, Patricia Ann Sinclair, and her children Craig, Christopher, and Christine. The one name that connects every person on that list? Albert P. Cochran. This is the shocking timeline of a murderer walking free, leaving victims and trial technicalities and unsolved crimes in his wake, seizing his opportunity to strike again and again.

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0:00.0	Christmas was just 10 days away in 1976 when Sandra Rourke, also known as Honey, walked into her
0:16.5	mother's bedroom to kiss her goodbye before leaving for school. Honey's mother
0:21.2	Pauline was still in bed and seemed to be asleep laying on her side.
0:26.0	It was maybe a little strange to Honey, but then again, she remembered hearing her mom and Albert up late, arguing the night before.
0:35.0	Albert moved in with them into their trailer off Route 129 in Fairfield that year.
0:40.0	Pauline and Albert had grown up in the same household in Oakland together.
0:44.8	Pauline was a foster child in Albert's parents' home.
0:48.6	The argument Honey Heard was really bad. She ran to her room and put a pillow over her head to muffle the sounds of their shouting.
0:56.8	They had been fighting more and more lately, and this was worse than she had ever heard it.
1:02.4	Since that day, when Albert drove them out worse than she had ever heard it.
1:02.6	Since that day, when Albert drove them out to the banks of the Kennebak to look at something
1:07.4	in the woods, things had been especially tense at home.
1:12.3	So when her mother was still in bed on a weekday as she left for school,
1:16.0	Honey thought she was probably just sleeping off the fight, giving Albert some space.
1:22.0	When Honey came home from school that day,
1:24.0	her mother wasn't home.
1:26.0	Albert said she'd be back later,
1:28.0	but Pauline Rourke never returned.
1:31.0	Not that night, not even that week or that month. Honey never saw her mother again.
1:38.0	In the 44 years, since Honey kissed her mother goodbye before leaving for school, no one has found a single
1:45.9	trace of Pauline Rourke.
1:48.4	Bruce Hurts wrote in his column Somerset sawdust in the January 28th 1978 issue of the Bangor Daily News
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