A Palmyra man remained in Cumberland County Jail this week after his arrest for the 1995 murder of a Portland man with Windham ties.

Maine Assistant Attorney General William Stokes confirmed that Steven R. Cutting, 46, confessed last week to killing 36-year-old William Greenwood on the night of April 30, 1995. He was arrested Aug. 16 after he admitted his guilt first to a relative, then to Portland Police detectives.

Cutting did not enter a plea at his first, brief court appearance Tuesday. In court, Assistant Attorney General Lisa Marchese requested a bail hearing, but a hearing date was not set.

Cutting’s court-appointed attorney, Randall Bates, did not return calls seeking comment. While Stokes would not comment on the particulars of Cutting’s confession, he did elaborate on the events leading to Greenwood’s murder.

On the night of his death, Greenwood, whose mother and stepfather, Millie and Linwood Stubbs, live in Windham, left his home in Westbrook for a night in Portland.

At the end of the night, Greenwood told a bartender at Bubba’s Sulky Lounge, a bar and dance club on Portland Street, near Deering Oaks Park, that he had a ride home. His body was found the next morning behind a trucking business on Warren Avenue.