The first news about Alice Hawkes’ death was published Oct. 5, 1987, as a short story on page 2 of the Portland Press Herald’s Evening Express.
More coverage followed by the Press Herald in the editions of Oct. 6-10, 1987.
An Evening Express story in December 1998 followed up on the Hawkes case, reporting that police investigators “have failed to catch her killer despite evidence collected at the scene and from dozens of interviews.”
In January 1992, the family offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to Hawkes’ killer.
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