The Unsolved Bangor House Murder of Effie MacDonald

Murder, She Told

Kristen Seavey

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

1965 - Bangor, Maine. In March of 1965, 54-year-old Effie MacDonald went to her job as a chambermaid at the Bangor House Hotel, a prominent luxury hotel in downtown Bangor, Maine. At 1:15pm, she was seen speaking with a man in the hotel's corridor, and she wasn't seen again... until 2:45pm, when her body was found in a vacant 3rd floor room. She'd been strangled, beaten, and raped. Around this time, the Boston Strangler had been terrorizing Massachusetts with a string of unsolved murders. Could Effie be the victim of a copycat serial killer? To this day, Effie's case is one of Maine's oldest unsolved cases. Effie had no enemies. She lived a modest and quiet life. Who would brutally murder such a respectable Maine woman? This is the story of Effie Terrill MacDonald. 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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0:00.3	As someone who researches stories that impact families of victims,
0:04.8	I can't begin today's episode without addressing the tragedy in Atlanta this past week.
0:09.9	My heart goes out to the families and friends directly impacted by this heinous crime.
0:14.9	Furthermore, I'm horrified at the amount of violence and targeted hate that has been
0:19.5	happening and rising during the pandemic against the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community.
0:25.5	We need to do better to make the world safer and more loving for everyone.
0:30.4	Hate is a virus and hate will not be tolerated in the murder she told community.
0:35.3	I stand with the AAPI community and solidarity to stop Asian hate. Thank you for listening.
0:41.2	This is Murder She Told, true crime stories from Maine, New England, and small town USA.
1:00.0	I'm your host, Kristen Zeevy. You can connect with me and suggest your hometown crime at
1:05.4	MurderShe Told.com and follow me on Instagram at MurderShe Told podcast.
1:17.4	At the corner of Union and Main Street in downtown Bangor,
1:21.2	sits what was at one point in time the largest hotel in Maine, the Bangor House.
1:26.9	A structure that's older than the Civil War.
1:30.1	Construction started in 1834 when the state of Maine was still in its infancy.
1:35.7	A substantial building of solid brick and welcoming granite columns that cost what would be
1:41.5	the equivalent of $3.8 million in today's money to build. A luxury hotel of the highest class
1:49.4	who boasted guests like Teddy Roosevelt, Gene Autry, and Duke Ellington. A hotel so popular they
1:56.7	had to turn people away. This building survived the great fire of 1911 that destroyed a good portion
2:03.8	of the downtown area. It survived the Great Depression and almost 200 years of brutal main winters.
2:11.7	The Bangor House is on the national register of historic places. It's heyday of boozy
2:16.9	champagne nights long retired. The rooms inside the walls of the Bangor House have now settled into
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