ME ALEX JACKSON: Missing from Leeds, ME - 12 May 2023 - Age 33 *Found Deceased**ARREST*

The info at this point is that Alex was last seen in Leeds, Maine Friday afternoon where he'd visited a friend and that from there, he was possibly headed to Vermont, however, his dog was found late afternoon Monday near Gray Rd. in N. Yarmouth, which is about 40 miles south of Leeds.
His vehicle is a white Dodge Ram 3500 pickup.

'I want him to come home': Search for Windham man continues, dog found wandering North Yarmouth

A mother's worst nightmare. Patty Jackson's son, Alex Jackson, has not been seen in four days.

www.wmtw.com

'I just want him home' | Mother of missing Windham man speaks out after disappearance

Alex Jackson has been missing since Friday after visiting a friend in Leeds.

www.newscentermaine.com

Family seeks answers for Windham man, 33, missing since Friday

Alex R. Jackson, 33, was last seen on the afternoon of Friday, May 12.

www.newscentermaine.com

MEDIA - Alex Jackson: Missing from Leeds, Maine-12 May 2023- Age 33

 

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Leeds man appears in court on murder charge in connection with Windham man’s disappearance

Joseph Chute is charged with the intentional or knowing murder of Alex Jackson of Windham, whose body hasn't been recovered.

www.sunjournal.com

Updated April 1
Christopher Williams

LEWISTON — A Leeds man charged with the 2023 murder of a Windham man appeared in court for the first time Monday.

Joseph Chute, 30, was arrested Friday and charged in the murder of 34-year-old Alex Jackson, who has been missing since May 12, 2023, the date police say Chute killed Jackson.

Chute appeared in 8th District Court by videoconference from Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn. He was seated next to his attorney, Verne Paradie, who was appointed Monday by Judge Sarah Churchill to represent Chute, who is indigent.

He is charged with intentional or knowing murder, a crime punishable by 25 years to life in prison.

Churchill ordered Chute held without bail pending a hearing at which a judge would hear arguments about bail and probable cause for Chute’s arrest.

Paradie said he would notify the court if and when he was ready to seek that hearing.

Chute didn’t enter a plea because murder is a felony charge, which could only proceed to trial if a grand jury were to hand up an indictment finding probable cause for charging him with the crime, or if Chute were to waive his right to grand jury review.

Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Ackerman filed a motion to impound the affidavit supporting probable cause to arrest Chute.

Judge Churchill granted Ackerman’s motion. Paradie said he hadn’t read the affidavit and would file a motion to lift the sealing of the affidavit from public view should he decide to after reviewing it.

Jackson’s family reported him missing May 12, 2023, saying his absence was “atypical,” Maine Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Shannon Moss wrote in a media statement Saturday.

Investigators from Maine State Police, Windham Police Department, Lewiston Police Department, Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office, and the New Hampshire State Police worked to develop leads over the 10 months following Jackson’s disappearance, Moss wrote.

Jackson’s body hasn’t been recovered, Moss wrote.

 

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Hmm. NH State Police? I wonder if Chute sold/tried to sell the truck and flatbed in NH? It will be interesting to see why and to what extent the NH State Police were involved in the investigation.

 

[GrandmaBear]

NH involved certain involves another state/jurisdiction. Either the truck, they think Chute traveled there, the body may be there or some such due to something? I haven't read any links this morning, no time. Just posts. Maybe it tells more.

I come from an area grand juries aren't used and in the surrounding states I've ever seen either much. I've looked into in he past but each state that does use them seems to have different ways of using, times they do, rules on such and vary as well so just saying I don't follow it well or clearly. I take it Chute is indicted and the affidavit sealed pending what he decides on whether a grand jury review or not? Am I following that correctly?

I'm curious in how they came to charge this as a murder with no apparent more info we know of than they had to speak of. And without a body. Unless I missed something which is entirely possible lol these days.

I wonder over what totally unnecessary reason someone had for taking someone else's life in this case. Apparently Chute has it in for people and not for dogs but then the dog could have been just untended and wandered.

Murder after murder, life and morals, accountability and consequences just so meaningless to so many.

What's anyone here thinking the motive/reason was? Not that many have looked at it or commented. Drugs? Argument between friends? Theft of cash and/or truck or something? I've looked at it but again have not read all links. Is there a hint as to reason?

 

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Leeds man seeks dismissal of murder charge

An attorney for Joseph Chute says prosecutors lack evidence that a crime was committed.

www.pressherald.com

Posted April 18
Updateed 3:14 PM
Christopher Williams Sun Journal

AUBURN — A Leeds man is seeking to have his murder charge dismissed because the alleged victim hasn’t been located.

Joseph Chute, 30, is charged with the intentional or knowing murder of Alex Jackson, 34, of Windham, who has been reported missing since May 12, 2023.

In a motion filed this week in Androscoggin County Superior Court, Chute’s attorney, Verne Paradie, wrote that his client is alleged to have made statements to a “few members of the public” that he killed Jackson.

But, because Jackson hasn’t been located, “there is no proof whatsoever that he is, in fact, deceased,” Paradie wrote.

“Without proof that Mr. Jackson is, in fact, dead, the state cannot possibly prove that Mr. Chute is responsible for his death,” Paradie wrote.

He cited legal doctrine known as “corpus delicti,” which Paradie said requires prosecutors to “present evidence, independent of incriminating statements made by an accused, sufficient to create a ‘substantial belief’ that the crime alleged was committed by somebody.”

Paradie wrote that prosecutors haven’t presented evidence that a murder weapon was found nor any other evidence to support the claim that a crime was committed other than Chute’s alleged confession.

The “defendant suggests that this matter should be dismissed unless and until the state has some evidence that Mr. Jackson is actually deceased,” Paradie wrote.

 

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Remains of Windham man missing for almost a year found in New Hampshire

Alex Jackson was reported missing by his parents on May 12, 2023.

www.bangordailynews.com

by Ethan Andrews
12 hours ago Updated 50 mins ago

The remains of a 34-year-old Windham man have been found in New Hampshire, Maine State Police said in a news release Monday.

Alex Jackson was reported missing by his parents on May 12, 2023. Police arrested Joseph Chute on March 19 of this year and charged him with Jackson’s murder, though the victim’s body had yet to be found.

On Friday, multiple state and local police departments from Maine and New Hampshire searched in the area of Stark, New Hampshire, where they found human remains, according to Maine State Police.

The remains were brought to the Maine Office of Chief Medical Examiner where, along with information from the scene where the remains were discovered, authorities were able to identify them as Jackson’s.

Police did not immediately release the cause of death or say what led them to search in Stark, New Hampshire.

 

[Kimster]

Leeds man seeks dismissal of murder charge

An attorney for Joseph Chute says prosecutors lack evidence that a crime was committed.

www.pressherald.com

Posted April 18
Updateed 3:14 PM
Christopher Williams Sun Journal

AUBURN — A Leeds man is seeking to have his murder charge dismissed because the alleged victim hasn’t been located.

Joseph Chute, 30, is charged with the intentional or knowing murder of Alex Jackson, 34, of Windham, who has been reported missing since May 12, 2023.

In a motion filed this week in Androscoggin County Superior Court, Chute’s attorney, Verne Paradie, wrote that his client is alleged to have made statements to a “few members of the public” that he killed Jackson.

But, because Jackson hasn’t been located, “there is no proof whatsoever that he is, in fact, deceased,” Paradie wrote.

“Without proof that Mr. Jackson is, in fact, dead, the state cannot possibly prove that Mr. Chute is responsible for his death,” Paradie wrote.

He cited legal doctrine known as “corpus delicti,” which Paradie said requires prosecutors to “present evidence, independent of incriminating statements made by an accused, sufficient to create a ‘substantial belief’ that the crime alleged was committed by somebody.”

Paradie wrote that prosecutors haven’t presented evidence that a murder weapon was found nor any other evidence to support the claim that a crime was committed other than Chute’s alleged confession.

The “defendant suggests that this matter should be dismissed unless and until the state has some evidence that Mr. Jackson is actually deceased,” Paradie wrote.

But now they think they found him, right?

 

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But now they think they found him, right?

Yes, the body was positively ID'ed as Alex.

 

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Court documents reveal disturbing new details about murder of missing Windham man

Court documents revealed disturbing new details Wednesday in the murder of a missing man from Windham.

wgme.com

Court documents reveal disturbing new details about murder of Windham man
Court documents revealed disturbing new details in the murder of a Windham man.

Police say Alex Jackson of Windham went missing in May of 2023.

His body was found in a barrel near a family camp on April 19 in Stark, New Hampshire.

Police say the barrel was in standing water in a sand pit. Jackson had been shot in the back of the head, according to police.

The man accused of killing him, Joseph Chute, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to murder.


Detectives say Chute's ex-girlfriend told them about how she helped get rid of the body.

Prosecutors say Chute owed Jackson money for a construction loader.

Jackson was last seen on the afternoon of May 12, 2023, in Leeds, according to police.

His mom, Patricia Jackson, told CBS13 in 2023 that he went to go to a friend’s house in the Leeds area.

That same day, his girlfriend said a text sent from Jackson’s phone claimed that Jackson was going to Vermont.

Police say Jackson's phone was powered down around 4:30 p.m. on May 12.

A judge ordered Chute to be held without bail.

 

[GrandmaBear]

So he owed him money and shot him because he couldn't pay. He may not have to pay the $$ ever so I guess it MAYBE worked but now he will have a new home and life in prison and if things go as they should, restitution for the construction loader and other loss and damages shall have to be paid TOO out of his earnings as a toilet scrubber.

WTH is wrong with people?!