CUTLER, Maine — Maine State Police believe that a woman whose body was found last week at a state-owned preserve died by suicide, according to a state official.
Stephen McCausland, spokesman for Maine Department of Public Safety, said Monday that the 37-year-old New York woman was found Aug. 10 by other campers in a tent at Cutler Coast Public Reserved Land. Family and friends had not heard from her since mid-July and her car had been parked at the preserve’s parking lot on Route 191 since that time, he said.
The Cutler Coast property consists of more than 12,000 acres of blueberry barrens, woods and wetlands, including 4.5 miles of rocky shoreline that faces east toward the Canadian island of Grand Manan. The property has approximately 9 miles of hiking-only trails, some of which follow the rugged coastline, and three primitive oceanfront campsites.
