Tragedy in the North Woods by Trudy Irene Scee

Author:Trudy Irene Scee [Scee, Trudy Irene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: True Crime, Non-Fiction, Kindle-Unlimited
ISBN: 9781596295506
Google: fJM5vgAACAAJ
Goodreads: 17556019
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2009-06-14T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

HELL MOVES ON

James Hicks and His Bride Go West

By late September 1996, only four months after his girlfriend and supposed great love had vanished, James Hicks had moved in with an eighteen-year-old girl, Brandie Mayo of Levelland, Texas. By November, they were reportedly arguing, and Hicks refused to let her leave the relationship.162

Maine State Police detective Joseph Zamboni contacted Brandie’s mother, Ann Mayo, to apprise her of the situation and of Hicks’s background. She told him that Brandie had met Hicks while working part time at the Twin City Motel as a chambermaid, but her daughter was also a personal care attendant (PCA). She said that her daughter was a good kid but suffered from some self-esteem issues and was concerned about her weight. She thought that James Hicks was brainwashing her child.

Ann Mayo had seen bruises on her daughter, but Brandie had told her that Hicks had not caused the bruising. Ann knew that Hicks could be verbally abusive, however, as she had heard him abuse Brandie when she was on the telephone with her daughter. She said that Hicks made Brandie stay at home when he was at work, and she was not supposed to let anyone at work know that she was living with him.163 Of course, Lynn Willette, Louise Robertson and possibly other women Hicks had dated or lived with had also worked with him at the motel.

By the end of the year, Ann had heard through a family member that Hicks was beating Brandie—he had kicked her in the ribs and was otherwise abusing her. The family member talked to Zamboni. She informed him that Brandie was only allowed to call at certain times and that Hicks, while drunk, had taken Brandie to a certain location and told her, “This is where I took the girls and this is where they still are.” He later, when sober, denied any wrongdoing.164

Zamboni met with Brandie and tried to warn her about Hicks and his background. But, he recalled in 2009, “I got nothing. So I got the Brewer PD to pick her up. She filed a complaint…Hicks is ‘going crazy’…But he can’t stay away. This is a lot of pressure on the guy, it’s pressure, but it’s friendly pressure, strange pressure.” He compared Hicks to a moth that simply could not stay away from the flame.165

Hicks threatened to sue the Bangor Daily News and two local television channels in 1997 for stories involving him and his female partners. He continually felt harassed, as law enforcement followed his every move and searched for bodies with cadaver dogs, on foot and on horseback. The Maine State Police, Newport Police Department and Brewer Police Department simply hounded him any way they could. Stories in the press heightened the issue.166

Brandie stayed with Hicks and became pregnant the following year. The Maine Department of Human Services got involved and removed the baby girl, Hillary,* from Brandie’s home in 1998, in large part because of her relationship with Hicks. The state, through DNA testing, proved that Hicks had fathered the child.

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