Driving through the mid-coast town of Liberty, Maine, you'll encounter a little village that appears almost suspended in a time from decades or even a century past. Many of the buildings that line Main Street remain

unchanged from their late 18 and early 1900s appearance save for maybe a coat of paint or two throughout the years. in the

in 1800's appearance, just outside of that little village of Liberty,

still on Main Street,

is another building that is largely unchanged from its original appearance.

The brown wooden structure sits vacant now, the dusty gravel parking lot empty,

the porch bear, and the windows dark.

If you were to travel back in time about 50 years,

though, that empty building was a favorite place

for the people of liberty and beyond. Its owners, Jack and Florence Betancourt,

were an essential thread woven into the fabric of the small main town.

In December of 1973, that fabric was torn apart when the bedding courts were found

gunned down in their own home.

I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the story of Jack and Florence Bedincourt and the legacy they left behind on Dark Down East. Oh, The town now incorporated as Liberty Main, located on the ancestral lands of the Wabonaki

people calls itself one of Main's on the and in the 1970s the town was even smaller, just about 500 people called it home.

Among the residents were Mr. Waukeen Betancourt, better known as Jack and his wife Florence.

Jack ran a secondhand clothing store in town

located in an old supermarket building

across from Walker Memorial School

on the main route through Liberty.

He didn't advertise and he didn't even have a sign out front, well except for the one that

listed the store's hours, only open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

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