Content warning: This story discusses the deaths of children, severe mental illness, suicide attempts, and suicide. Three Children Were Dead. Twelve Years Later, It Happened Again. On June 30, 1966, Carl Fisher came home from work in rural Fairfield, Maine. Something was wrong. No children ran to greet him. The house was unnaturally quiet. Contemporary accounts describe Carl discovering his nine-month-old daughter, Natalie Rose Fisher, drowned in the bathtub. Police arriving

In September 2006, the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast in Newry, Maine should have been quiet in the way old New England inns are quiet—wooden floors, mountain air, guests coming and going near Sunday River, and the ordinary end-of-summer rhythm of Labor Day weekend. Instead, over four days, it became the center of one of Maine’s most disturbing homicide cases in more than a decade. Four people were murdered: Julie Bullard, James “Jimmy” Whitehurst, Selby Bullard, and Cynthia “Cin