Investigators provided no new information early Sunday about the discovery of three bodies in two Boothbay Harbor homes Saturday.
A Lincoln County Sheriff’s cruiser was stationed outside of 236 Lakeside Drive Sunday morning, the likely location of the deaths of two people in their 70s. A deputy said there were no updates. A long driveway surrounded by pine trees obscured the house.
The victims were a man and woman in their 70s and a man in his 40s, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety Saturday. Autopsies are scheduled Sunday, according to the Associated Press.
The bodies were found after local police made a well-being check at one of the houses, said McCausland.
The three people are believed to have been members of the same family, McCausland said, but their identities aren’t expected to be released until Sunday.
State police believe no one else was involved in the case aside from the three persons found dead, according to McCausland.
Two bodies were found inside a home on Lakeside Drive and the third was in a home on Montgomery Road, McCausland said.
The two roads are about 2 miles apart. Loraine Nickerson, who lives on Montgomery Road, said a young man lived alone in the home on Montgomery Road, but she did not know his name.
The bodies of the man and women in their 70s were found inside the home on Lakeside Drive, and the body of the man in his 40s was later found in the home on Montgomery Road, WCSH reported.
Their bodies were taken to the state medical examiner’s office in Augusta, where autopsies are due to be performed Sunday. More information is expected to be released Sunday afternoon, including the identities of the three victims, McCausland said.
State police detectives arrived in Boothbay Harbor around midday Saturday, McCausland said, and are investigating the circumstances of the deaths.
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