Mystery Location No. 68: October 1, 2017

I'm not a hundred percent sure about this one, but I think it's 8 Spring Street in Westbrook, Maine, where Alice Hawkes and her boyfriend, Stephen Bouchard, lived in Apartment No. 3. Alice, who was from Bangor, worked in a Portland bank and had told her family that she and Bouchard were getting married. Her family wasn't thrilled at the news because they didn't like Bouchard and felt that he mistreated Alice.

Bouchard seemed to be plagued by missing keys and on October 3, 1987, which was a Saturday, he misplaced his car keys that morning and later in the day, when he returned to the apartment, he couldn't get in because the deadbolt -- which they never locked because Maine is one of America's safest states -- was locked and he did not have his key. Alice's car was in the parking lot behind the building. The next day, Alice still didn't answer the door, though her car was still in the parking lot, and Bouchard called the landlord, who came and opened the door with a passkey. They found huge blood stains on the living room rug and Alice dead on the bathroom floor, her throat cut from ear to ear. While the landlord and Bouchard were waiting for the police, Bouchard sat in the living room and went through Alice's purse, which the landlord thought was strange. Whoever killed Alice locked the deadbolt when he left and Alice's family suspected Bouchard, but he hired a lawyer and refused to cooperate with police. The case was reopened a few years ago, but has never been solved.

Maine has the lowest violent crime rate in the U.S.