BANGOR, Maine — Bangor police on Friday arrested a woman and charged her with murder in the stabbing death of a man at a Court Street apartment on Wednesday night.
Gail Judd, 53, of Bangor was arrested at about 2 p.m. Friday by Bangor police detectives, Sgt. Paul Kenison said in a press release. She will make her initial court appearance on Monday.
The victim was identified as Michael Drouin, 47, of Bangor. He died as the result of a single stab wound to the chest, Kenison said.
Drouin was found dead Wednesday night in an upstairs apartment at 67 Court St.
An autopsy was performed Thursday on Drouin.
Neighbors of Judd, who lived on the top floor of the three-story apartment building, said she told them she had been raped by a man and had stabbed him.
Police were initially called to Court Street to deal with a disorderly person at about 9:35 p.m. Wednesday and while investigating found the man dead on the floor of an upstairs apartment, Sgt. Paul Edwards said Thursday.
Three people who live in the seven-unit apartment building told the Bangor Daily News on Thursday that they heard or were involved in a verbal altercation in the hallway with Judd over missing laundry.
One said he saw blood on the woman and another said “she muttered something about blood” when confronted about the missing laundry.
A 25-year-old neighbor said he went out into his hallway Wednesday night when he heard arguing about the missing clothes and Judd told him she had to go because police were after her.
“I asked her why police were after her and she said, ‘I was raped and stabbed a guy,’” said the man, who asked not to be identified.
He said police arrived a short time later and went to the top floor to investigate.
Judd had been arrested previously by Bangor police, according to Bangor Daily News archives.
On Feb. 10, 2011, she threatened to jump out the window if police entered her Union Street apartment, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards said at the time. She had been yelling from inside the apartment when police arrived, Edwards said. She was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct.
After there was a suspicious fire at the apartment building a short time later, she was arrested early the next morning and charged with disorderly conduct and criminal trespass.
Judd was arrested again on Feb. 15, 2011, for violating her bail conditions after she allegedly caused a disturbance at the Rite Aid on Third Street.
At least 3 times a week there is a story in the BDN that makes me very happy with my decision to move the heck out of the Bangor area and head to the mountains.
Have you ever lived in a real city? I consider Bangor a small town because I know what it is like to live in a real city with real crime. A person dying of a stab wound isn’t even news worthy in a lot of real cities because it happens so often but you for some reason think Bangor is such a terrible place to live when it is not.
Have fun living in the mountains and I’ll have fun living in Bangor where I feel 100% safe.
you hit the nail on the head. Anyone who thinks third street is a “bad neighborhood” should take a stroll through Hartford CT or West Springfield MA.
I wouldnt want my 7 year old walking to the store by himself in Bangor (or veazie for that matter), but it is not a bad city by any stretch of the imagination.
That reminds me. So why are so many people from Mass flooding into Bangor? Most of which I see are on welfare and doing drugs. They also seem to bring with them a bad attitude.
Because Biddeford and Lewiston are at capacity
See Wellsprings.
Perhaps if the welfare wasn’t so attractive around here…?
PS I think Veazie is full of crazies as well also some of the cops there seem to have emotional problems. I’ve seen a couple of them tweak out before. Scary. I also had a driver swerve at me just to splash me but the roads were icy and he was doing like 55mph in a 25. He could have skidded and hit me with his truck. I used to live at the Stucco lodge but I couldn’t stand the owner. When ever he would get upset over something he would go from being Mr. Nice Guy to sticking his finger in your face and talking down to you. He would not talk like adults but rather talk over you and at you, instead of “with” you. He had a stray cat problem once and I saw him catch one in a cage. He shook the cage when he thought no one was looking and then dropped it from chest height so it banged on the ground with the cat in it. Another night a tall large cop was talking to a neighbor of mine. I could hear the cop making accusations and yelling. It really seemed like the officer was intentionally trying to make my neighbor upset as if he was deliberately trying to instigate a reaction. I can’t wait to move out of the area but financially I’m stuck in the mud here. But I really don’t like this whole area From Old Town all the way to Brewer it’s all used goods to me. It’s like a chewed up piece of gum with no flavor that has been spit onto the ground.
How much do you need to go away?
Well said, Todd.
We have chosen not to live in New York City for a reason. There was a time that Bangor was very quiet and very, very safe. It has changed so much and THIS is what people are commenting about. So we’re not as bad as New York….. New York isn’t as bad as Iran – does that mean that New York is a wonderful, safe city? Let your comparasons rest
ya ain’t safe no matter where u live-bangor is getting just as bad as real city (the worst place to live in bangor is lower hammond and ohio street area )
These people don’t go a few blocks up the street to involve people who are totally unconnected to their dramas. They know each other and are doing this to each other for the most part.
Some might call that evolution.
More like a DEVO thing. but I see your point.
Like the Iraquis then.
I’ve heard 1st St is bad, a lot of drugs
There’s a very good reason why the intersection of Third St. and Union St. was always called “Third World and Union”.
You can pretty much throw a dart at a map of Bangor and hit a place that has lots of drugs. ha ha
That is the entire state.
Essex St. is a close second to being the worse place to live in Bangor.
out here by fox hollow isn’t bad at all, so don’t know how essex st. gets a bad name
No, it is not but you are allowed to keep thinking that.
I lived in some of those big metro areas. The criminals don’t limit themselves to the bad parts of town. You can live in a nice suburb and you still have to watch your back. Bangor is mild in comparison.
Your right, Bangor is nothing but a town. But it’s an increasingly dirty, drug infested town.
For a small population you’ve got a lot of problems. hey, a new civic center will fix everything lol.
3 methodone clinics and Hollywood slots don’t help
The slots ain’t nuthin. You’ll see an entirely different clientele when they get table games. Then you can worry about the casino./
Ya mean those Canadian Grannies have a dope problem?
Table games attract younger people. It won’t be “Just grannies” anymore.
I doubt it, but we shall see.
ROFL….was thinking the same thing.
Yes indeed, and they’ve brought a lot of prostitution to the area as well.
oh, wait …………….
Hey Kevin, I liked your comment because you are right, but yet there are reasons not to live in Bangor. Bath salts, look above in the “related articles” this woman was out of control then, and now someone gets killed?
I’m not picking on Bangor, it’s a problem though and urban areas have to go through them, but it’s sad that they couldn’t have done something earlier.
As I said, the mountains don’t have meth labs, and bath salts or meth clinics, but, again, I really don’t know how to solve it immediately, but I do think she should have been held for evaluation.
I don’t think bath salts were the major problem with this woman. She sounds more like she’s got a major mental health issue (since in her former residence she locked herself in her apartment and theatened to jump out the window in another story) and she looks like she’s got a real problem in her realtionship with Johnny Walker.
Be that as it may, we can compare Bangor to major cities until the cows come home, but most of live in Maine because we don’t want to live in major cities.
Comparisons are a moot point to me.
Someone made the comment the other day, when the police first went to the house where the stabbing victim was, and she seemed to involved, that she would eventually kill someone. She has been picked up so many time for violent behavior when she is drunk that it was inevitable. Alcohol has really been the downfall of Gail Judd.
it’s all relative. Stockholm, Maine is a small town. a few yrs ago the population was 300, I believe it is less now. For those thinking of Stockholm as their town, Bangor is large. I agree Bangor is a pretty small place. Like the story the other day about the infant that died in Patten. some people didn’t like it that this was in the newspaper. it is news because it hardly ever happens in Patten.
Actually after visiting Boston and NYC at least there are places in those major cities in which there is real culture, nice people, and whole neighborhoods where there are no drugs. It’s sort of a stereotype that huge cities are all garbage. Sure I personally don’t like NYC but it’s got a hell of a lot more going for it than Bangor. I’ve lived in Bangor for far too long and I can safely say that I don’t feel safe anywhere in this town. Also there is nothing going on unless you want to gamble your money away like a fool. And the arts here are laughable. At least in a major (real) city like Chicago, NYC, Boston, or even LA there are huge things to see and do, there are millions of people to choose from the hang out with. It’s far easier to find an upscale class of people even if you are a lower middle class individual. But in Bangor I see none of that. Even the so called “professionals” in Bangor are questionable people at best. If you feel 100% safe in Bangor you are either lying or delusional. Besides Bangor is a VOID there is nothing here to see or do. Most people just want to drink beer and smoke their life away on the multitude of smoke breaks they take all the time. Either that or do drugs 24/7. Sure there is more crime elsewhere but that is because there are more people. Bangor has about 40,000 people whereas NYC literally has millions. But if you look at the ratio you will see that you have better people to choose from in a real city. Also even if I didn’t want to move to a large city and move to the country Id rather be surrounded by a handful of townsfolk that I trust and care for than a city of losers like Bangor. Also globally there are large cities that are very safe to live in. Not all cities have the huge crime rate that US cities have.
You have no clue about my past nor do you have any sort of clue about the type of neighborhoods I grew up in. Let me ask you a simple question.
Have you ever been in a single fist fight?
I doubt it Kev….he’s in battle within himself, he just needs to figure out who he’s fighting.
Sounds like you lost alot..lol
A lot is two words, not one.
Of course I didn’t win them all. Even the best boxers in the world get their behinds handed to them now and then.
Thats something I won’t miss about Bangor. All people want to do is fist fight over dumb stuff. and not just the kids either a lot of so called adults are rather immature for their age.
I’d like to be in one right now.
Feel free to leave anytime. Part of the solution, or part of the problem. Perhaps you have lived in Bangor “far too long” that you feel the need to denigrate a place many people are proud to live in. And the arts here are not “laughable”, just not the scope of your beloved NYC. Maybe you need to get off your computer and go see some of them.
I’ve tried being part of the solution and only got used. I’ve had lots of jobs around this area and I’ve even volunteered. I’ve always helped friends and neighbors in Bangor. But time and time again I was stabbed in the back by people. Most people in Bangor Maine are two faced both poor or well off. Also you totally twisted my words around 1. I also said that I didn’t like NYC but it has more going for it and 2. I did state that I have visited there. and 3. I also stated that I was saving up $$$ to do move traveling/moving. So you should read more carefully before flapping your lips in the wind. You are a perfect example of the types of ignorant arguments that Mainers start with me. You think you’re being smart and you don’t even know what you’re talking about. Also I have my first amendment right to my opinion whether you like it or not.
Many people in Maine are distrustful of anyone they have not known all there lives. They say the further north you go the colder the people are. That was quoted to me by a doctor who has a home in Maine and also in another state.
…and you are still here…why?…
Because this area has sucked my wallet dry and I’m trapped until I can scrape up enough to get the hell out of this hole.
I’ve lived A LOT of places (cities and country), and I’ve been around the world. 3 times. I don’t CARE how safe YOU think it is. Your justification also makes me feel good about my decision.
The only way one can be safe is with a loaded gun
A loaded gun does not make you 100% safe.
But it sure does level the playing field.
That it does.~
There is NO PLACE where you can be 100% safe. Just sayin’.
I don’t recall saying 100% safe but I can change it to a h*ll of a lot safer if you desire
You are correct Kevin….Having a gun in the city is a bad idea.
Only if it isn’t loaded.
Maybe not 100% until its Full of Empty Cartridges!
Bangor is a terrible place to live.
The murder rate per capita in Bangor, Maine is actually HIGHER than the murder rate in NYC.
There is something seriously wrong with the Bangor area, and much of the rest of the state of Maine.
Lol..my guess is poacher isn’t familiar with the types of people that live in the mountains of Maine….Ms Judd would be right at home…..
Not really, there are basically no welfare services in the unorganized territories. Even with entitlements, it would be an adventure for these people to find housing, food, booze, etc.
Kevin, have you ever come up in a little city, by a river, that is like a small town ?
Welcome to my Bangor.
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Now, forgive my small town ways, but my gosh,
Just look at her.
Who could and not see this sort of thing coming ?
May God forgive us all.
She lives in our town, and we didn’t stop this from happening.
you seem to be angry that he wants to live in the mountains.how come?
Communist upbringing is my guess.
All hail Stalin.
Lets think about that….. It is more of a “town” and that is exactly what people want. We live in Maine because it is a safe place to raise a family. Used to be anyway. If you like to see the stabbings every day, why do you move to New York City and we here that want to live in Maine will continue to “take out the trash”.
Thank you Kevin. Its only certain areas that are bad. And of course because of whackos like this woman. She should have been locked up a long time ago. I guess you do have to commit murder to get locked up.
I completely agree with you! I moved here from right outside of Baltimore, MD and the things I have seen and stuff that happens down there is no comparison to here in Bangor. My husband and I have family up here and decided this would be a better place to raise our children and I am still happy with that decision!! And when you talk of a real city I’ve been there and I know 100% what you mean!!
Baltimore has it good points (like the harbor). However the rats and violence are a turn off.
I live in Hampden and I’m getting a handgun. The poor EMT from Florida goes missing and two Newburgh people are under suspicion, then this and the home invasion and shooting in Hermon last week. Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
So, the answer is, just get a handgun and start shooting, therefore create public safety job security and headlines?
How about trying a little tiny bit at what the problem really is? It’s a social and mental health issue, it’s not a free-for all. Just sayin….
Dude, we can’t solve societies problems TODAY – but TODAY, if anyone comes near my home or kids in a threatening manner, they will eat my 12 gauge….
What does that have to do with a middle aged woman who nearly burned down an entire apartment building, and then is a suspect for murder, when she should have been evaluated?
I have no problem with you protecting you or your children, but what I am concerned about is people that just shoot.
Killing someone whom you think is threatening, is much different than someone breaking into you house and threatening. If your house is locked at night, no doubt. If they are aggressively showing signs of harm? no doubt But if you just don’t like the way a person acts……that’s different, and you have to act differently. I guess it’s up to you. “Dude”.
I have to wonder why was he in ME in the 1st place? Why had he come to ME previously? What was his connection to the people from Newburgh? a lot of unanswered questions.
His parents live in Brunswick.
I do not understand why people would want to live crammed together.Give me wide open spaces and uninhabited woods.
Jobs, convience, less gas and traveling, shopping, entertainment, quality healthcare.
12 miles from bangor all those are available without somebody stuffed up you buttocks but to each his own,no more my biz why you would want to live that way than yours on why I enjoy the peace and quiet ,nature ,boldly star filled night thanks to no light pollution I could go on but I wont bore you.
I completely agree with you.
The ideal situation would be to live on the outskirts. I live in a rural area and while its is peaceful it is quite a hike to do any kind of decent shopping, have lunch, etc. I used to live way out in the country and that was nice. Never had to worry about making too much noise because the neighbors were far apart. Someone I know says “I like pine trees better than people’. She has a point.
that she does .
Not much bad happens out in the mountains but not much good either. Veiws, animals and silence is nice but it hardly pays any bills. Glad you are happy in the country, I am happy in the city of Bangor.
That’s why I always lived in the mountains, not much good happens, and not much bad,…..but it’s much more predictable.
You are numb…indeed
it also makes me glad that I’ve dumped every single person that was a friend of mine in the Bangor area. They were all mooching losers that never paid me back and would lie about each other behind one another’s backs. I do have two friends that are moving back to the area that I will still visit with but my plan is to save up $$$ to get the hell out of Bangor as well. I’m tired of extremely over priced apartments that are nothing but run down gross looking holes with neighbors that are sketchy, mean, and two faced. I’m sick of bad drivers (insurance com ranked Bangor Maine #7 out of their top 10 list for most dangerous US cities to drive) and people making threats or lying about me. Bangor seems like it might have been a grand city 50 years ago but it’s a run down mess with drug abusers now. So very sad. I had one guy threaten me because I wouldn’t give him a cigarette. He even reached into my shirt pocket only to find out that it was my asthma inhaler. He had no right to do that even if he thought I was lying about having “no cigarettes”. All these people do 24/7 is smoke cigs, drink too much, and abuse drugs that none of them can handle. These people tweak out too easily without drugs as it is.
There are a tremendously huge amount of honorable and decent, trustworthy and friendly people in Bangor.
Perhaps, if you think for a second, that it may have been the people that you were hanging with?
So leave already and quit bitchin. This page is for comments on a murder, it’s not your personal dump on Bangor forum!
It’s clear, Diss-me, that you are the type that will not be happy anywhere.
Hard to go through life that way.
A city as big as Bangor si going to have some crime. I feel perfectly safe here, and so does my wife. But we have lived in places that make Bangor seem closer to Mayberry then New York City.
What has happened to our great state? Gosh not too long ago it was rare that you would ever hear of any crime….but now it seems common accurance to have it happening every day…and the thing of it is…it seems to be sort of expected and accepted.
This is from a year ago when this woman was arrested before, below I believe is a comment you had made…quite the prediction!
lakesregion
1 year ago
This poor soul is pathetic. She certainly does need a lot of
inpatient care instead of going to jail over and over. There must be an
agency that can help her before the police at some point find her dead.
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Lady_Luck
1 year ago in reply to lakesregion
or before she kills someone
When we as a society subsidize bad behavior, poor decision making, and loose morals, we get… this. When society, or Mother Nature, step in and penalize such behavior, things get better. Think of it as being like putting out too much birdseed… you only wanted to “help” the birds, but now you are inundated in starlings. Fighting, continuous squawking, lots going on but nothing happening, the seed all spilled, and the birds who really need it trampled underfoot. You know what? It is time to take in the bird feeder!
Great analogy jimlay. That’s exactly what’s happening.
100% with ya
To bad they hadn’t just let her jump back on 2/10/11…would have been a lot cheaper
I’ll be damned if I’ll move, just because a few people who are flaked out on violent TV and movie junk, complemented by substance abuse, seem intent on destroying each other.
Shootings, knifing, strangling – you name it. You can find the perfect plot on TV 24-hours a day. It’s made to appear so easy. Some shows -“Good Fellas” – glorify violence. With more than 200 channels of unrestricted gore being pumped into homes 24-hours a day, what can you expect?
I’m not for censorship. But restraint on the producers’ part would help.
Meanwhile, let them continue. We’ll just have to build a bigger Pen’, find a bigger rock pile.
And I am just the opposite…poacher78…I’ve been in the White Mountains for the past 2 1/2 years and booooooored stiff…I shall be returning to 73 Court Street….right next door to 67…in the spring…God willing.
I think if anyone wants to find out this guys name just hang at the store on the corner of ohio and hammond st.
I’m thinkin’ your probably right.
Might even find someone selling drugs , Or sex.
i lived across from that store i’ve seen alot of activity near my apartment-i moved a few weaks ago up north in my own home in that neighborhood u can buy sex-drugs a hitman ect…… not a good place to live.
Yes I know that area .
ghetto irving
That’s ok. For now we will just call him that dead guy in Bangor. Huh? Which one?
Channel 5 just said it was Michael Drouin…he was stabbed by that lady..
Lady???
“She’s no lady, she’s my wife.”
Ohhh…..it was THIS crazy woman.
I remember this woman’s photo from another story awhile back. Not sure what she had done at that time. Don’t think it was murder.
It was for creating some sort of disturbance.
http://bangor-launch.newspackstaging.com/2011/02/16/news/bangor/bangor-woman-arrested-again-in-disturbance/?ref=relatedBox hERE YOU GO
Don’t know what for, but I have seen this womans face a number of times in the BDN…
http://bangor-launch.newspackstaging.com/2011/02/16/news/bangor/bangor-woman-arrested-again-in-disturbance/
Looks like they posted the photo from her arrest a year ago. Maybe it will get updated later. I’m not sure I want to see that.
She does seem to be enjoying her processing.
Pretty!
No offense but Mainers are ugly for the most part rather potato headed. I’d go criminally insane too if I was ugly and unshapely, but I guess abusing drugs and alcohol over ones entire life will do that. I’m not saying all Mainers are ugly but a majority seem to be.
Funny, she looks normal!
This woman has a history of public disturbances and by the accounts of her actions she is mentally ill. Why was she not in Acadia or at the very least a private jail cell?
Totally agree. I was thinking the same thing.
this is what happens when people from Dorthea Dix (formerly BMHI) are put into the community.
and places like Acaida have a revolving door.
Thats because the people don’t want to pay for them to be in jail in the first place. They let them get to the point where they kill someone before they do anything, and still, she won’t be there any where near long enough. The taxpayers need to suck it up and get these people off the streets before this stuff happens. I know taxes suck, but it beats losing someone you love.
Acadia only keeps people for a few days, she should have been in Dorothea Dix for long-term help.
Because BMHI ceased to exist for these poor souls many years ago. It once housed hundreds who were unable to care for themselves…now they are put into apartments they cannot manage. She is one of many on our streets, who cannot be jailed without a crime, and cannot be committed because Acadia can only keep them while in a full blown crisis, which is less than 48 hours.
Shameful, but true.
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how bad this guy must have felt to rape this and die for.. it if thats what happened. sometimes the paper makes me see how bad people really live.. there must be drugs involved in this thing somehow sorry for his loved ones and she should have been kept in jail half dozen arrests ago
why keep murder’s in our prison system-look at the money we haffta spend to house them-feed and cloth them plus medical alot of other states have a death penalty why can’t we…… there u go govnar this is a bill woth fighting for look how much money this state would save
when the state starts killing people, aren’t we all as bad as the one who killed? what if the person is put to death and then it is found that the person was innocent after all? We can’t bring a person back after killing them.
I would agree but it cost more to keep them on death row than to jail them for life she will be back out in like 10 yrs.
Most in our prisons are not criminals, but are mentally ill, and suffering mental disorders that they were born with, and did not ask for. Our system of caring for these poor souls is so flawed. They are mentally disabled, and need help that no one has the power to provide.
Yeah, yeah. So let them all out and see if you like that BETTER.
They are all out….there are NO facilities to care for them….they are your neighbors….that is the point.
Consider yourselves warned:
If you are thinking of escaping the social decay in Maine cites and moving to to rural Maine, watch this rural Maine video: [note the small children in the crowd watching]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXgeqmjv_hU
Thats just insane that someone allowed that to happen , especially in a family setting where children were present. Can we start checking IQ s of children before they can graduate !
its getting bad. children in somerset county will tell ya, their parents smoke POT in the homes right in front of them. say what you want about pot is not bad, children should have a right to make that judgement when they are older,not get brainwashed and demoralized when they are young,they think smoking pot is like drinking milk
Take a look at these comments made a year ago about this woman when she was in the paper…
lakesregion 1 year ago
This poor soul is pathetic. She certainly does need a lot of
inpatient care instead of going to jail over and over. There must be an
agency that can help her before the police at some point find her dead.
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Lady_Luck 1 year ago in reply to lakesregion
or before she kills someone
YIKES ! I think i disagree with occifer Pauls comment , the public is in no danger ! When she is in jail for good , then and only then will i agree with that statement !
I have seen this woman recently right here in the BDN for another crime….she sure is busy….
try living in Los Angeles and chicago, this is just petty, compared to what is out there, but bangor is heading in the wrong direction. I go out everywhere in bangor and feel safe, chicago, I would never go anywhere near the south side and LA never the east side, and whole cities like compton, downey norwalk, etc. those are bad cities.
We don’t live in those places because of all the craziness. I think people are just sad to see Bangor changing to something less than what it has been or could be. People are more scared than they used to be and although Bangor is relatively safe it doesn’t feel as safe as it once did.
It seems alot of folks on here are content to say we are not as bad as ——when the slant of conversation that should be is a better prepared citizenry to retaliate against any deterioration of the quality of maine living.Like the fella in hermon, enoughs enough.Arm yourself today.
Statistically, Maine cities are some of the safest cities in the United States.
If you think our maine cities are bad, watch what maine people in the towns are like now:
This is MAINE folks!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shsjE_tzJu8
I just watched both videos by the links that you posted! There are NO words! That’s totally disgusting and the town of West Athens allows that? There’s kids watching. Where are the town’s selectmen while this is going on, where they even there to watch what was happening? The residents of the town should sue the town for letting something like this happen. And they have the nerve to call that a parade???? I’m happy I don’t live there!
many posters dont like my attitude…it is from seeing this side of maine, the rest of maine is not seeing. and it has spread to skowhegan and still spreading
I think someone should move. Why are you here if you hate it so?
WTF !
All I can say is WOW…….
2. No vulgarity, racial slurs, name-calling or personal attacks.
Plus all the attacks on the so called mentally ill is against the law BDN.
It seems, that after reading down the comments, location is being discussed; the topic of these comments! WTH ???? A man is dead, stabbed to death, for crying out – loud people. Makes me wonder if anyone has taken any time to think about Michael? About his family? About the suffering?
I look at the women in the photo and know that she has suffered with addiction for,probably most of her life. I wonder if she had gotten some help earlier in life, if maybe she would be a beautiful women today, free of addiction. I think about how a person ends up this way and the pure hell they put others and themselves through. People give up hope and the addict didn’t have any to begin with…
Judd is a very sick soul, probably mental illness and addiction has had her in it’s grips for far too long and this is the end result of a life of hell. I wonder if she was ever loved? I wonder if her mother and/or father were in her life and I wonder if they suffered from an addiction/mental illness? I wonder if Judd really ever had a chance, to begin with? I just wonder if anyone of us could have at some point made a difference in her life, having been given the chance? I wonder if anyone cared about either one of these lost souls.
Thank you for the other perspective. We don’t have to like or agree with what happens as a result of anothers choices. Unfortunately in saying, that so many lack compassion. Sometimes compassion is keeping your comments to yourself. I work with individuals who’s lives have been greatly affected by trauma,mostly from the time they were small,helpless, children .It is hard enough being in this world with it’s problems/challenges even when you are well and have people around you that love, respect,and support you. It’s sad when one believes to the core of their being that they are nothing, I see it all the time. That’s what drives me to try and provide hope in people’s lives, someone to believe in them for perhaps the first time ever. I have seen how compassion has made even the darkest soul shine.
BMHI discontinued housing these poor patients many years ago (approx. 1979)…..they had hundreds in their care for many years prior. The decision to house them in their own apartments endangers them as well as others we now see. Mental illness is everywhere, and can be incurable. Protecting them, feeding, and housing them in BMHI was the best and most humane treatment. BMHI needs to be re-opened for these many who are wandering our streets and one step away from self-destruction. Our community needs those jobs brought back, as well as the safety of its most vulnerable members.
both good people when they had support. very sad to read this in the news.
http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/me/bangor/crime/ Check it out might surprise you.
Bangor is looking safe. Looks like the questionable area’s are where the crime is concentrated.
Bangor has become a crap hole….build some more methadone clinics….build it they will come to be treated and their kind will follow….
Methadone actually helps turn former drug addicts into productive members of society. You can either help pay for their methadone with the money the government is going to take from you either way, so they can get a job and be productive members of society and take some of that very heavy financial burden off of your shoulders, or you can pay for them to be policed, jailed, fed, sent to the ER, etc.
I would much prefer to see tax money going toward enabling people to care for themselves rather than locking them up. Wouldn’t you?
All that aside, a man is dead and a severely troubled woman is to blame. Clearly the issue at hand was lost with your instantaneous jump to pointing the finger.
Why is it Nicole that Penobscot County Jail can get any inmate off all the drugs in 30 days, but Acadia is not willing to do that ? Is it the federal funding they get , and the jobs it creates, because over 100 prisoners in our local jail are drug free, and cigarette free….no meth or soboxone necessary.
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I saw it going down hill back in the 1990s and it’s been declining exponentially ever since. It was a slow decline at first but it’s accelerating. Its so sad.
I am amazed by how many ‘educated, well-informed’ commenters have stated in some for of another ‘who in God’s name would rape this woman- she is unattractive, a drug addict, and/or have a psychiatric issue ‘ Women who have untreated (and certainly long untreated) psyche issues, become more prone to rape and other violent crimes- 2.5 times more likely. They are extremely vulnerable. And, chances are very high they were raped (or otherwise molested) at a young age. So, just because her picture isn’t appealing to the general eye, doesn’t mean she couldn’t have gotten raped and/or attacked. And, as most people already know- rape is about power. I don’t know this woman, however, this comment isn’t necessarily regarded towards this woman, but the many woman (and men) who fall into this category.
Yes, in addition to that, I have not seen one comment about this man. Who is he?
I know. Usually by now they have photos of both the perpetrator and the victim but for some reason they have yet to show Drouin’s image. Seems rather strange.
I have only read about this story in the Bangor Daily News. Maybe there is more info out there? We really don’t know (by reading this article) that she in fact was at fault. It is a darn shame for the dead man and this woman.
We have to face the fact that all of us are flawed and we really do not know what is involved at this point in time.
Sometimes it’s enlightening to go back and review the record, then consider what might have been. The following excerpt is from comments about a story from Feb. 16 of last year concerning Ms. Judd’s arrest for violating bail conditions imposed a few days earlier when she was originally arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and criminal trespass:
lakesregion 1 year ago
This poor soul is pathetic. She certainly does need a lot of inpatient care instead of going to jail over and over. There must be an agency that can help her before the police at some point find her dead.
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Lady_Luck 1 year ago in reply to lakesregion
or before she kills someone
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Schoonerdog 1 year ago
With all the money DHHS has, this is a HUGE fail on their part. DHHS needs to be carefully examined!
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I lived in Montgomery AL for 2 years in the late 70s. Bangor isn’t even close to that now. 2 people I worked with were both shot during that time. Yes, Bangor is getting worse but blame it on Augusta. They are the ones telling the judges to keep these people on the street so they don’t have to listen to the granolas complaining about overcrowding in the jails. Most states, if you do the crime, you do the time. Not in Maine. That is why all these people who have been kicked out of the low end of the gene pool are moving up here. they know nothing will happen to them if they get caught. A slap on the wrist and a fine.
Having generous a benefit system helps too.
Thank you for the other perspective. We don’t have to like or agree with what happens as a result of anothers choices. Unfortunately in saying that, many lack compassion. Compassion may be simply keeping our own mouths shut when what we really want to do is attack with verbal vomit. I work with individuals who’s lives have been greatly affected by trauma,mostly from the time they were small,helpless, children. It is hard enough being in this world with it’s problems/challenges even when you are well and have people around you that love, respect,and support you. It’s sad when one believes to the core of their being that they are nothing, I see it all the time. That’s what drives me to try and provide hope in people’s lives, someone to believe in them for perhaps the first time ever. I have seen how compassion has made even the darkest soul shine.
I read what you posted and i had my own comment flagged… thank you for making me sit here and think about what you said.
I am so overwhelmed I don’t even know how to respond-thank you for taking the time be open minded and willing.
great post.
I tried to make the same point on here last night. Seems that all too many have no compassion. Thanks for your compassion and comment.
In your boy school days you might have been a bully?
O.K. I just want to say”If you don’t like where you live,, get out”. It is called moving away!!!!
Go find a place that is safe and wonderful!!
To bad this place used to be that way.
Sure those of us that want to move will just wave our magic wands and make moving money appear out of thin air. Why save money over years when you can just borrow Harry Potters wand XP
I would say this area is getting worse because I moved back up here from Portland in 2007 because my stepson on the first day of 2nd grade found a dead body behind the school in Westbrook. and Not wanting my kids to grow up in an area like tht I came back up here and now it seems daily there are reports of murders and arsonists etc… the list keeps getting longer, and a cave in the mountains with a wood stove is starting to look good!
Trenton, NJ was toughest…..even the rats carried….South Philly and Newark, NJ were places I always went armed. After I left Media, PA, one of my coworkers was in a shoot-out in the parking garage when an armed guy tried to rob him. Bangor and many Maine towns have increased criminal elements but less than a large city……the common connection to all of it………is……drugs.
I think the common element is a too generous welfare system. The layabouts come here and get on the dole, and then have all this time in which to do drugs and get up to mischief. If they were more worried about eating regularly, they would have less time to get into trouble. They can afford to hang out on the street all day because WE are paying them to do it. What a sweet racket. For them.
true but not very PC. It should be politically correct but it never will in this state.
I wonder how the current climate in Augusta would change if a judges house was robbed and the family was home at the time. What about a couple of stabbings and murders on the front lawns of a few lawmakers? Only then is it ever going to change.
i happened to have met this woman and she isn’t all there in the first place!
Listen to y0u nuts compare Bangor to New York City. You people are exactly why Bangor, and much of Maine, is such a sewer: you lack intelligence.
The murder rate per capita in sweet lil’ hometown Bangor, Maine is actually HIGHER than the murder rate in NYC.
Do you insufferable fools understand per capita? Of course NYC has more murders, they have millions upon millions of people. BUT — your odds of getting murdered are HIGHER in Bangor than in NYC.
And that is despicable. Bangor is a sewer, full of scumbags. Face it, it’s the truth.
I’ll take Boston any day of the week over both NYC and Bangor.
Gail recently stayed sober over a year and a half with the help of the folks at the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter. I befriended her a few months ago. She has struggled with alcoholism for most of her life. Believe it or not, she is a good woman who has been through more than she can handle without the use of drugs and alcohol. She is a very sick woman, in need of residential treatment. There are others like Gail, some, our very own war veterans. My good older friend Norm once gave me the best advice I’ve ever gotten. “Learn to find all people interesting” You will be surprised by what others have been through. I by no means am trying to justify Gail’s actions, but she is someones mother , sister, grandmother. You never know where life will lead you, or one of your own family members. There is a lot of addiction in this area. More than most of you probably even know or understand.
thanks josie. I wondered if anyone had ever cared about her.
PTSD
I think the word “provincial” accurately describes Bangor, as demonstrated by the postings at the BDN online.
“Mama, He’s Craaaazzzyyyy”
Tired of horrible crimes being committed while people are out on bail. We need to expedite our judicial system and get these people the punishment and help they need. It shouldn’t take a year or more to get a trial
Unless the lawyers are hoping for more money, for starters…
Remember that when you use a weapon on someone that the judgment for that will be by other people, later on and removed from the incident, AND some of you believe there is a further, final Judgment by Someone Else. What if He believes what He said, and doesn’t want us killing each other? Hmmmmm…
Where is the new mug shot?
this is a example of what budgetcuts in DHS is going to produce. you will have more psychos running lose on the streets doing stuff like this .
She clearly needs mental evaluation, and get the help needed. I really don’t think, that she knows what she is accused of, just sayn…
The Bangor-Brewer area and surrounding region is swamped and sinking in drugs.
Hence the increase in crime. Marijuana, Bath Salts, prescription pills, cocaine – anything and everything that secures a dimwit a high for a few minutes, or, a blank out for the evening. It’s all here.
You can pick up accessories to augment your habit, pipes, paper wrappers, etc., at many area stores. Complimentary paraphernalia – no good druggie should be without – are pistols, clubs, chains, knives and daggers, which share space with the rest of the crap.
The Bangor Daily News is stuffed daily with criminal cases. Nearly all, with few exceptions, having links to drug use.
Tough education is needed. But that’s even harder. Teachers maybe drilling kids about the killing drug habit, while the kids’ parents are snorting, sticking, or swallowing this poison.
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Ahhhh… the when will it stop… Catch and Release… I wonder if the guy was her boyfriend..
Thanks judge.
I doubt Bangor or Maine, in general, is becoming as dangerous as big cities like Boston or New York. The problem is, Maine, like other states has cut mental health services and residential treatment programs to the level we see today. More and more people, like Ms. Judd, are falling through the cracks because they cannot afford or find the services they so desperately need. Ms. Judd should clearly never have been on her own, given her behavior of the past several weeks. She is UNABLE to conform her behavior to any sort of social norms. When people are incapable of conforming behavior, crime is the result. In this case a man has lost his life.
We as taxpayers should be outraged that our tax dollars are more and more shifted to supporting jails for such individuals when it is clear that the money would be far better spent on mental health services. I realize that not everyone can be cured or even helped, but I suspect a large part of the population of our jails have mental health issues that are responsible, in some part, for their crimes.
Another catch and release, until someone died….. here
http://bangor-launch.newspackstaging.com/2011/02/16/news/bangor/bangor-woman-arrested-again-in-disturbance/?ref=relatedBox
and another one earlier…late 2011, I think, same woman. I never forget a face as scary as that.
So I’m wondering what this Drouin fella looked like. Why haven’t they released his picture? Are they hiding his face for a reason? Not sure what that would be but usually by now the news shows images of both the perp and victim.
I am 100% sure she was receiving mental help.. Just sometimes it’s the best that can be done.
Why do people think she wasn’t getting help?
Who knows she may have been assulted and was just defending herself..
I’m sure if she was the daughter of a “special” Bangor elite , it would be self defence.. No questions asked
Statistics show that there is a serious lack of mental health care in Maine. There is also a shortage of trained psychotherapists and actual specialized psychologists in Bangor. Most these people are only seeing your run of the mill social workers during out patient day programs. And when they do see a Phd it’s usually only once a month or so via webcam at Acadia to update their medications.
I used to live in that apartment years ago creepy.
I know this woman pesonally, she is a severe alcoholic, has been in prison for years for prostotution and dealing cocaine, is the sister of jeff cookson who is in prison for killing his ex girlfriend and a toddler she was babysitting. She is severly pyscatic when she is under the influence. Her last boyfriend died while she in the shower supposedly of a drug overdose. I have no sympathy for this woman just glad her mother who was the best woman ive ever known isnt here to see this