‘North Pond Hermit’ speaks to GQ Magazine
The central Maine man who committed hundreds of burglaries while living in the woods for several decades talks publicly for the first time.
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The state's supreme court is to hear oral arguments next week over the $1,125 restitution ordered to cover the cost to remove a road police built to reach Christopher Knight's encampment.
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Officials are mum about where he is living and working but say the man who lived 27 years in the Maine woods is doing fine.
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Christopher Knight is admitted to a program where he will live in the community and report to a judge.
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Christopher T. Knight is expected to plead guilty to burglaries and be admitted into the Co-Occuring Disorders Court in Kennebec County, which allows for counseling and rehabilitation.
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His attorneys say the man who survived 27 years in the Maine woods has an alcohol problem.
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He makes his first response in court to theft charges, but his fate after jail could delay a resolution.
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But the man who lived in the woods by himself for almost three decades probably won't be charged in hundreds of other burglaries because of the statute of limitations.
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A film festival audience in Waterville watches a brief clip from 'Hermythology,' a documentary-in-progress.
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A judge tells Christopher T. Knight a mental health evaluation could take months, delaying his case.
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A meeting Saturday in Skowhegan will include a chance to see the items seized from his campsite.
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Given the opportunity to reclaim stolen items, most are more eager to repossess a sense of safety.
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They offer no clues, however, as to why Christopher Knight took to the Maine woods for 27 years of isolation.
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Psychological or social factors could draw a person into hermit behavior, experts say.
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Dave and Louise Proulx's seasonal camp on North Pond was burglarized so many times that they began to predict what would be stolen . . .
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Christopher Knight may also have practiced for a year on his family's Albion property before disappearing into the Maine woods alone for 27 years.
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A determined sergeant with the Maine Warden Service finally captures Christopher Knight, 47, who says he committed more than 1,000 burglaries over 27 years of solitary life in the woods.