It was October 16th, 1937.

Mainers were just beginning to wrap their heads around the outrageous scene that played out in the streets of downtown

Bangor in the days before.

Alfred James Brady, Al Brady, and other members of the infamous Indiana-bred Brady gang were killed in the streets of downtown Bangor

after an FBI shootout.

The story would dominate the news cycle for days and weeks following, and so on October 16th, 1937, when the excitement

was still fresh in the minds of civilians and law enforcement alike, everyone

had their eyes peeled for more Brady Gang activity in Maine and beyond.

So when police came upon a vehicle with a main license plate on the side of the road in

North Arlington, New Jersey, it raised considerable

suspicion.

Police would soon learn that this had nothing to do with the Brady Gang at all, but what they found inside that car would lead back to one of Maine's most sensational crimes of the early 1900s.

This is the murder of Dr and Mrs. James G. Littlefield.

As police approached a vehicle with main license plate, sitting there on the side of the road in North

Arlington, New Jersey. They could see a young man slumped and apparently sleeping

in the driver's seat. He was 18-year- old Paul Dwyer. His face was red showing either his

adolescents or his exhaustion as the New Jersey officers asked him what he was doing in New Jersey, so far from home.

With main license plates, they were already suspicious, and he certainly didn't look like the type to be driving a luxury sedan.

Police brought Paul in for questioning.

The clearly nervous teenager sat inside the station

and consented to a search of his vehicle. They didn't have to look very hard to

uncover the secrets inside. An officer popped the trunk to reveal the bloodied body of an elderly man amongst dishevelled luggage.

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