The Aroostook man convicted of killing his girlfriend and disposing of her body in 1998 has died in the Maine State Prison.
George Jaime, 87, died about 7:30 a.m. Thursday at the prison in Warren, according to the Maine Department of Corrections.
The Maine attorney general’s office and medical examiner’s office have been notified of his death, as is standard procedure.
Jaime was convicted on Nov. 15, 2013, of the brutal stabbing and beating death of his girlfriend, 38-year-old Starlette Vining, who was last seen alive in October 1998.
During his trial, Jaime’s son, Ted, and friend James Campbell testified that Jaime told them he killed Vining, dismembered her body and burned it in the commercial furnace in the basement of the pawn shop and apartment complex he owned on Main Street in Presque Isle.
Ted Jaime told the court that he took his father for a ride, and they stopped on a bridge over a stream in Westfield, where George Jaime dumped out a can of ashes. Ted Jaime and Campbell also testified that they helped clean up the murder scene.
Vining’s remains have never been found.
George Jaime was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Dec. 20, 2013.
Correction: An earlier version of this report misspelled George Jaime’s last name.