Cookson, 39, was killed in September 2024 inside her Bangor home.

Bangor jury convicts Thorpe in 2024 strangulation death after weeklong murder trial.

The electrical cord used to strangle Virginia Cookson in 2024 had DNA from the Bangor man on trial for her murder, a forensic ...

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BANGOR -- The murder trial for a man accused of killing a Bangor woman is getting underway today. 44-year-old Richard Thorpe ...

Richard Thorpe's murder trial advances toward a verdict as both sides rest their cases.