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

Sameena Imam was a 34‑year‑old regional marketing manager for Costco who lived in Cardiff and worked across several UK warehouses, including Coventry, Bristol, Southampton, and Cardiff. She had been in a two‑year affair with Coventry Costco manager Roger Cooper, who was living with a long‑term partner while also involved with a second colleague, leaving Sameena effectively one of three simultaneous relationships. Roger’s younger brother David Cooper, an ex‑soldier living in L