"I said 'No, I don't think so, there is blood on his back,'" said DiFilippo. "He said 'Are you sure it is not a mannequin?'" said DiFilippo. Leaving the office with the boys and their father, DiFilippo saw the corpse and ran across the street to the police station to report it to a dispatcher. Matt DiFilippo, a sports reporter, said the boy seemed shaken after running up the stairs. He then ran into the Sentinel and told his father. "I said, 'Oh my God, is that a dead body?'" said Jake Hickey. Ben, 17, said he and his brother had planned to climb down the bank to watch the fast-flowing river, but got no further than the top of a snow bank. The body was discovered by two brothers who were waiting in the parking lot for their father, a Morning Sentinel reporter.īen and Jake Hickey, the children of reporter Colin Hickey, discovered the remains at about 5 p.m. Waterville police strung yellow crime scene tape over a section of the river bank about 100 yards long Sunday night, as they waited for state police and a representative of the chief medical examiner's office.Īt about 8 p.m., a hearse from Gallant Funeral Home arrived, and police used a section of rope to pull the body, encased in blue plastic, up the embankment. Blood was clearly visible on the upper part of the back. It was lying face down on top of the snow, clothed in blue jeans but naked from the waist up. It was between 5 and 10 feet from the river, near a platform that juts out from the bank. The body, that of a white male with short dark hair, was about 20 feet down a steep embankment that ends at the Kennebec River. Serving readers of the Waterville region. "We are treating it as a suspicious death," said Gould late Sunday night after the body was recovered. Morning Sentinel 72 followers on LinkedIn. WATERVILLE - Police are investigating the suspicious death of an unidentified man whose body was found behind the Morning Sentinel building off Front Street Sunday night. Police officers, from left, William Bonney, Tim Hinton, Chief Joe Massey and Kris Mckenna wait for state police investigators in the back parking lot. The teenagers were down by the river while waiting for their father, reporter Colin Hickey, inside the building. BODY DISCOVERED: Man's death ruled 'suspicious'įOUND BODY: Jake Hickey, left, and his brother, Ben, of Watervillle speak on Sunday about finding the body of a male down by the Kennebec River behind the Morning Sentinel building off Front Street. Hero's has a six-month permit from the city and given the larger-than-expected turnout this week, the DeFelices hope to be in the city as a "weekly pop-up" through the spring and summer.Ĭustomers can keep up to date with the trailer's movements on the Hero's Facebook page.I wonder if these boys are going to take up their father's trade of reporting after this early start to their investigative careers? See link below story for the latest. But the Oakland natives hope to make Waterville their semi-permanent home. military veteran who operated a restaurant in Skowhegan has found new life by closing the restaurant and taking his food on the. Hero's business model now is "99%" private events and catering, Derek DeFelice said, and they are largely booked out for the next two years supplying events anywhere from Sanford to Caribou. Derek DeFelice said many veterans stopped by the trailer this week to get food, and sometimes just to chat about their service. The business serves up traditional all-American cuisine and the truck has patriotic decor, an homage to Derek DeFelice's background. The two said the great thing about the food truck is the ability to take their product right to people, which is useful in central Maine where many communities are rural and sparsely populated. Cut our overhead down, and we've been able to survive with just me and her."ĭerek DeFelice nods to his wife who's busy preparing a made-to-order grilled chicken caesar salad. "We had to make a change that was best for the business, and that's what we did. ![]() ![]() "We just had a hard time finding help," he said. ![]() Labor shortages, a problem hampering many businesses across the state, were part of the reason the restaurant closed, he said. Although revenue has decreased, he no longer has to rent out a large commercial space, and operates with a staff of two. The mobile business model can be more profitable than a traditional restaurant, Derek DeFelice said. The DeFelices decided to close up shop and go fully mobile. While the volume of customers decreased with stringent social-distancing requirements, business swelled for the food truck. It turned out to be propitious timing when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out only a month later. The restaurant was successful enough that the couple decided to expand in early 2020 and invest in a custom-made trailer to pursue private catering for events. The business opened in 2018 as Hero's House of Pizza at 60 Waterville Road in Skowhegan.
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