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

From July of 1974 until his capture four months later, an attractive man by all accounts, went on a killing spree. Officially, twenty...