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Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

He'd often go back and visit family. I did ask the youngest son if his dad ever did paving work in Maine. He said no. However, in the newspaper archives, I found an ad placed in the classifieds of a paper out of Bidford. For, guess what, LMB Paving, and this was in 1988.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

He'd often go back and visit family. I did ask the youngest son if his dad ever did paving work in Maine. He said no. However, in the newspaper archives, I found an ad placed in the classifieds of a paper out of Bidford. For, guess what, LMB Paving, and this was in 1988.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

It's definitely possible this isn't Allie's company, but I haven't found another L&B paving company registered to anyone else in Maine. I read through papers around the Briggs murder for May 1989. The Evening Express reported that there was paving work being done on Commercial Street, just a five-minute walk from the murder site at Bath Iron Works.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

It's definitely possible this isn't Allie's company, but I haven't found another L&B paving company registered to anyone else in Maine. I read through papers around the Briggs murder for May 1989. The Evening Express reported that there was paving work being done on Commercial Street, just a five-minute walk from the murder site at Bath Iron Works.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

I have no way to tell if Allie was involved with this paving work, so this remains pretty tentative. For what it's worth, I believe the youngest son when he says his father couldn't possibly be a murderer.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

I have no way to tell if Allie was involved with this paving work, so this remains pretty tentative. For what it's worth, I believe the youngest son when he says his father couldn't possibly be a murderer.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

But the facts are that Larry Alley was at Linda Moore's house at the time of her murder, lived half a mile from where Jane Borowski was attacked, and according to his son, didn't have an alibi for that evening, and that he also had ties to Maine. But what about the other victims? And it's true, I couldn't tie anything regarding the Courdemont or Freed cases to Larry Alley.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

But the facts are that Larry Alley was at Linda Moore's house at the time of her murder, lived half a mile from where Jane Borowski was attacked, and according to his son, didn't have an alibi for that evening, and that he also had ties to Maine. But what about the other victims? And it's true, I couldn't tie anything regarding the Courdemont or Freed cases to Larry Alley.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

But remember his son said that Alley went to Wickham's office in Walpole? I've been there. This site has a large gravel pit and a plant that manufactures asphalt, a place where Alley would often be for his job. In 1985, victim Eva Morse went to her place of work at the Dunning Corporation in North Walpole, just under three miles from the Whitcomb office.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

But remember his son said that Alley went to Wickham's office in Walpole? I've been there. This site has a large gravel pit and a plant that manufactures asphalt, a place where Alley would often be for his job. In 1985, victim Eva Morse went to her place of work at the Dunning Corporation in North Walpole, just under three miles from the Whitcomb office.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

She clocked into work early and left soon after, complaining of an illness. Eva was last seen hitchhiking north on Route 12. Well, from the Whitcomb office to where Eva was last seen can be driven in four minutes. It is very possible that had Allie left Whitcomb the morning of July 10th, 1985, he would have driven right past Eva on the shoulder of Route 12. And finally, we have Heidi Martin.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

She clocked into work early and left soon after, complaining of an illness. Eva was last seen hitchhiking north on Route 12. Well, from the Whitcomb office to where Eva was last seen can be driven in four minutes. It is very possible that had Allie left Whitcomb the morning of July 10th, 1985, he would have driven right past Eva on the shoulder of Route 12. And finally, we have Heidi Martin.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

This is also incredibly circumstantial, but once I was hip to Larry Allie and his business of paving, I remembered something Barry and Linda Martin said during our interview, and it was legitimately like a real-life Sherlock Holmes moment.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

This is also incredibly circumstantial, but once I was hip to Larry Allie and his business of paving, I remembered something Barry and Linda Martin said during our interview, and it was legitimately like a real-life Sherlock Holmes moment.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

Elementary. There was a gravel pit less than a mile from Heidi's murder site in Heartland, Vermont. I followed up with the current owner of the company who leases those pits, and he said yes, those pits were sold to Pike Industries in 1984 or 85. As we know from that well-publicized scandal of bid rigging, Whitcomb and Pike were in bed together, so I dug further.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

Elementary. There was a gravel pit less than a mile from Heidi's murder site in Heartland, Vermont. I followed up with the current owner of the company who leases those pits, and he said yes, those pits were sold to Pike Industries in 1984 or 85. As we know from that well-publicized scandal of bid rigging, Whitcomb and Pike were in bed together, so I dug further.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

And according to a 1984 article in the Rutland Daily Herald, Whitcomb and Pike were doing regrading work on I-91 bridges from Brattleboro, Windsor, and Heartland in April and May of 1984. Heidi was killed on May 20, 1984.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

And according to a 1984 article in the Rutland Daily Herald, Whitcomb and Pike were doing regrading work on I-91 bridges from Brattleboro, Windsor, and Heartland in April and May of 1984. Heidi was killed on May 20, 1984.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

So it's incredibly likely that Whitcomb, who ruled state paving jobs in southern Vermont, was paving the bridge on I-91, literally 200 feet from Heidi's murder site in the Martinsville woods. But what I can't pull together is if Allie was on that crew.

Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley

So it's incredibly likely that Whitcomb, who ruled state paving jobs in southern Vermont, was paving the bridge on I-91, literally 200 feet from Heidi's murder site in the Martinsville woods. But what I can't pull together is if Allie was on that crew.