OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine — State and local police are investigating a death in Old Orchard Beach.
Late Saturday night, Stephen McCausland of the Maine Department of Public Safety identified the man as Roger White, 49, of Old Orchard Beach.
White’s body was found behind an apartment building at 29 Old Orchard St. on Saturday morning, according to McCausland.
McCausland called the death “highly suspicious.”
An autopsy will take place Sunday at the state medical examiner’s office in Augusta.
The year round local folks in OOB are salt of the earth. When the summer season begins-watch yourself-just as you would in any tourist area where people come and go all the time. They don’t add summer cops for nothing.
What’s happened to the good-old 1940’s and 1950’s? “wetshores”, I remember my parents taking their annual 7-week vacation trip from NYC up the coast of Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, stopping at beaches along the way, and then terminating our summer vacation in Old Orchard Beach where we spent four weeks and then headed back home. At 7 years of age (as a girl) through about 15 or so, I used to go “downtown” to the arcade, the Noah’s Ark, shoot the .22’s at metal targets, ride the “Whip”, the bumper cars, and go out on the pier and enjoy everything imaginable, and then walk back to our hotel all alone. Nobody would touch me or bother me. I never saw a fight or argument (oh, I’m sure there were, though) on the streets, and always had lots of fun every night doing the same thing. I’d run to the beach everyday and play, sometimes with other vacationers or the locals who liked the summer beach fun and playing in the sand together. From what I hear now, it is not so much fun and the elements coming to the summer vacation spot are less than credible vacationers. Too bad.
The town is trying yo return to those times by removing anything fun in favor of high priced condos…
Yes, we found out that the Ark was burned sometime in the ’60’s. It was good at one time, I guess. Anyway, we had a lot of fun at OOB back in those good old days. It seems to me the city is trying to eliminate a lot of the old-time “fun” attractions, in favor of incorporating newer affordable and pricey condominiums in an attempt to bring in a more socialable crowd of vacationers and year-round residents. This may be a seaside community someday, the likes of Newport, Rhode Island, but without the heavy thunder of the OOB waves and the seas coming in.
Noah’s Ark etc burned down in the sixties. My Mother told me it had gone seedy anyway.
“Everywhere Else” has landed all over our State, not just OOB. Everyone has their opinion as to why we have more crime-personally I beleive it just comes back to a lack of work. It’s good people who can’t find it -or bad bad people who don’t want it. Thanks for your comment!
Yes, alot of upstanding citizens in those winter rentals….
I wouldn’t classify someone living in a winter rental as a traditional citizen of OOB. Perhaps you should go down and help some of those folks start a better life, you seem to know of their problems.
I hope they find out what happend to that man. It is kind of scary not knowing and have children playing outside not knowing if there is a loony person out there or if this was “something else”..
Very scary. But it seems to me that 90% of the time, if it’s murder of some sort, the people knew each other. I think the chances of a stranger getting your kids in this instance is unlikely! (Not that you can ever be too careful!)
It almost seems as if OOB has an arson season in the fall and murder season in the spring and summer.
I think my vacation this year will be spent elsewhere. I am scared to bring my daughter to old orchard now
drama queen…oob is still safer and cleaner than just about any other public beach on the east coast.
Cleaner than Seaside Heights, NJ? LOL
Yes. MUCH.
OOB has never been closed due to sewage alerts. Can you say that about SSH (NO).
Beach Sewage Threat May Go Down The Drain
A
35-mile stretch of Jersey shore beaches closed to bathers because of an
invasion of raw sewage in the ocean could be reopened this afternoon.”It’s
possible . . . if they (pollution level analysis) come back at low
levels again today and the beaches can be cleaned up in time, then it’s
possible they could be reopened today,” said Nancy Freiberg, spokeswoman
for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
Freiberg
said the ban, initially just for the Ocean County beaches at Seaside
Heights, Seaside Park, South Seawide Park and Island Beach State Park,
was extended late yesterday to include all of Long Beach Island, from
Barnegat Light to Holgate.