Starlette ’Star’ Vining, 39, disappeared from Presque Isle, Maine, in October 1998. She worked at Smythe’s IGA and last appeared for work that month; family and friends say her prolonged silence was unusual compared with prior periods when she had been out of touch.

Years later, witnesses including Jaime’s son Ted and another man testified that Jaime had admitted killing, dismembering, and burning Vining in a commercial furnace in the building basement, and that ashes had been disposed of from a bridge over a stream in Westfield. Vining’s remains were never recovered. Jaime was charged in 2012 and a jury convicted him of intentional or knowing murder in November 2013; the Maine Supreme Judicial Court affirmed that conviction in March 2015.