Police arrested Daniel Jolly in connection with the January 16, 1993 homicide of 73-year-old Maxine Bitomski. state police say Jolly, of Portsmouth, nh, was taken into custody on a murder warrant on June 4, 2026 after investigators re-examined the case and used advances in DNA testing. reports say he worked for a medical supply company that provided her oxygen equipment, and he was jailed in rockingham county awaiting extradition to maine.

i saw that investigators say the case was re-opened starting in 2021 and they worked thru old evidence and new DNA tech to get to this point. hoping Maxine's family finally gets answers and some measure of justice from this arrest.

Maxine T. Bitomski, 73, was found murdered in her Kittery, Maine home on January 16, 1993. She had lived on Colonial Road for about 40 years and was remembered as a devoted grandmother whose house was a gathering place for family. The night before she was found she spoke with a granddaughter and a friend and watched a town council meeting; early the next morning a delivery driver and neighbors noticed a partially open side door and a broken window, but did not contact authorities.

Her grandson, George, discovered her body in the bathtub amid signs of a violent struggle and broken furniture. An autopsy determined her death was a homicide, though investigators have not publicly released the specific cause of death. More than a year later a plastic Kmart bag hidden near her house yielded a robe and pajamas and an inhaler bearing her name; a suspect was interviewed early in the probe but no arrests were made and the case went cold.

Maine State Police have recently reopened the investigation and said advances in DNA and forensic testing are being pursued while investigators reinterview a credible suspect who had earlier been of interest. Anyone with information, however small, that could help identify who killed Maxine is asked to come forward.