Overview
- The Domestic Abuse Homicide Review Panel released its 15th biennial report, detailing 17 cases comprising 20 deaths from 2021 through 2024.
- The panel reports that more than half of Maine’s 18 homicides in 2025 were tied to domestic abuse even as overall homicide totals fell in recent years.
- Half of the reviewed cases involved firearms, including four instances where perpetrators were legally prohibited from possessing guns.
- Eleven of the 17 reviewed homicides were intrafamilial, involving parents, children or siblings.
- Recommendations address probation and pretrial gaps and service connection, urging referrals of repeated probation violations for possible stalking, use of high-risk response teams at bail, and stronger links to advocacy.