On the evening of April 20, 1999, 41-year-old Bessie Selek was struck and killed by a vehicle while walking along Route 202 near the Waterboro–Lyman town line in Maine. The vehicle fled the scene and her death was treated as a fatal hit-and-run that investigators later classified as a homicide.

Suspicion fell on Selek’s live-in boyfriend, Raymond Wood, after a history of domestic violence and abuse was documented; friends and coworkers had seen Bessie with black eyes and bruises, and she had previously had Wood arrested and tried to seek a protection from abuse order but left before speaking with a judge. Detectives obtained a confession from Wood, and he was initially charged with manslaughter; two days later the charge was upgraded to murder. Wood pleaded not guilty.

A judge later ruled the confession inadmissible, criticizing the detectives’ interrogation methods, and prosecutors dropped the charges for lack of sufficient evidence. The killing remains unsolved and the investigation is open. Does anyone have information about Bessie, her movements that night, or the vehicle involved?