The Murder of Bessie Selek (Maine)

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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MAINE, 1999: On the night of April 20, 1999, 41-year old Bessie Selek was walking along Route 202 near the Waterboro-Lyman, Maine town line when she was hit and killed by a passing vehicle. The driver fled the scene, leaving Bessie there to die on the side of the road not far from her own home. Detectives zeroed in on her boyfriend, Raymond Wood. They’d had a tumultuous relationship. A long history of domestic violence and abuse. Maine State Police were certain that Raymond was their guy. During an intense interrogation by two State detectives, Raymond Wood even confessed to the crime. But as the investigation continued, it appeared the evidence wouldn’t so easily fit the foregone conclusion reached by police, and the confession by their primary suspect wasn’t exactly proof that he did it.

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0:00.0	On the night of April 20th, 1999, 41-year-old Bessie Selick was walking along Route
0:09.3	202 near the Waterboro Lyman-maintown line when she was hit and killed by a passing vehicle.
0:15.6	The driver fled the scene, leaving Bessie there to die on the side of the road, not far from her own home.
0:26.0	Detectives zeroed in on her boyfriend, Raymond Wood. They'd had a tumultuous relationship,
0:28.0	a long history of domestic violence and abuse.
0:32.0	Main State police were certain that Raymond was their guy.
0:36.0	During an intense interrogation by two State detectives,
0:39.0	Raymond Wood even confessed to the crime.
0:42.0	But as the investigation continued, Wood even confessed to the crime.
0:42.8	But as the investigation continued,
0:45.0	it appeared the evidence wouldn't so easily
0:47.4	fit the foregone conclusion reached by police.
0:50.8	And the confession by their primary suspect wasn't exactly proof that he did it.
0:57.0	I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of Bessie Selick on Dark Town East. Small and fiesty, strong.
1:17.2	She had a sharp tongue.
1:18.7	She was a brat, one friend said with a chuckle, and also one of the nicest people you ever met. These are just a
1:25.9	few of the ways that those closest to her described 41-year-old Bessie Selick.
1:31.0	Bessie was born and raised in Chigabie, Massachusetts, and by all accounts, she had a rough life.
1:37.9	She confided in friends that she'd been in violent relationships.
1:41.6	She'd also spent time in jail, but for all the challenges she endured, Bessie was trying to change
1:47.1	her course in life and was doing a great job of it too.
1:51.5	Bessie and her boyfriend Raymond Wood reportedly moved to Maine in 1994.
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