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Most Popular Chief: 'It's a crime of horrific proportions' Adjust font size: Decrease font Decrease font Enlarge font Enlarge font NEWRY, Maine (AP) -- A cook was charged Tuesday with shooting and dismembering the owner of a bed-and-breakfast and killing three other people in a grisly Labor Day weekend crime spree that shocked people across the Maine countryside. Craig Poulin refused to discuss a motive for what he called the worst homicide case in Maine in 14 years. Christian Nielsen, 31, told detectives that his four-day rampage began with an Arkansas man on Friday and continued two days later with the slaying of the owner of the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast where he was staying in Newry, according to state police. The daughter of the inn's owner was then killed along with a female friend when they arrived there unexpectedly Monday, authorities said.
Watch police describe 'gruesome, unusual' crime -- 3:36) The dismembered bodies of the three women were found Monday at the white 1830s farmhouse in Maine's ski country near the New Hampshire line, about 75 miles northwest of Portland. Nielsen then led detectives to the man's burned remains in the woods about 15 miles away. Nielsen was charged with four counts of murder and smiled as he left court after being ordered held without bail. Poulin would not say how the victims had been dismembered. The victims were identified as bed-and-breakfast owner Julie Bullard, 65, who lived at the inn; Nielsen had recently been renting a room at the Black Bear while working at another bed-and-breakfast in nearby Bethel. Whitehurst, who was in the area on family business, also had been staying at the Black Bear. Walter Grzyb said the two men did not know each other beyond the fact that they were both staying at the same inn. "We're all just numb with shock," said Robin Zinchuk, executive director of the Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce. Nancy White, co-owner of the Sudbury Inn, was stunned to learn that the cook she and her husband had hired this summer had been arrested on murder charges. She described him as a reliable employee and a good cook. "We believe no one else was involved, and there are no additional victims," Poulin said. Julie Bullard had decided in February to close the Black Bear, Zinchuk said, and there was a "For Sale" sign out front. Its last quadruple murder was in 1992, when Virgil Smith set fire to a Portland tenement, killing a woman, two men and a 10-month-old baby. Nielsen had a history of driving offenses that included an arrest for drunken driving, but nothing more serious, police said.
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