At around 10:00 a.m. on December 7, 1985, Armand M. Pelletier, then 34, found a dead baby girl near his house on Bouchard Roach in Frenchville, Aroostook County, Maine, United States. He called police and told them the body had not been there at 8:00 a.m.
Armand M. Pelletier
Pelletier lived in that house with his wife Lorraine T. Pelletier, then 33. They did not have children but they had a Siberian Husky named Paca, which was born in 1975.
It is believed that Paca dragged the body about 700 feet from a gravel pit to Armand and Lorraine’s house. Police dogs later led investigators to a gravel pit access road where they found a considerable amount of blood and a placenta.
The baby was full-term. According to investigators, she was likely born in the gravel pit driveway and was left there to die in below-zero temperature.
Earlier that day, a young couple was seen in Madawaska, Aroostook County. The Madawaska Police Department and the Maine State Police looked for information on the couple but to no avail.
In 1986, Armand and Lorraine moved to Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine. In 1987, Paca died of cancer.
Lee Ann Daigle
Among Armand and Lorraine’s neighbors in Frenchville was Lee Ann Guerrette, now known as Lee Ann Daigle.
Currently, Daigle is 58. She is now a resident of Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. She was the woman who left her newborn baby outside Armand and Lorraine’s residence.
On June 13, 2022, Maine State Police detectives arrested Daigle without outside her residence in Lowell. On June 14, 2022, she pleaded not guilty to murder.
On June 20, 2023, Daigle admitted to abandoning her newborn baby on December 7, 1985 and pleaded guilty to manslaughter. She was sentenced to six years in prison.
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