BANGOR ( AP) — Court documents indicate a Maine woman charged with murdering a man in a Bangor apartment acknowledged stabbing him because he tried to force himself on her.
Gail Judd, 53, told police in an affidavit that she used a knife for protection but didn’t realize that she’d killed 47- year-old Michael Drouin on the night of Feb. 22. Drouin died from a stab wound to the chest.
Judd, who made her first court appearance Monday, is being held without bail.
The Bangor Daily News says Judd’s brother is currently imprisoned for murder. Forty-seven-year-old Jeffrey Cookson, formerly of Guilford, is serving two consecutive life sentences for the 1999 execution-style shooting of his ex-girlfriend and the 21- month-old boy she was babysitting.
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