Judge urges Millinocket man to tell about 1980 killing

EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- A Federal Judge asked a defendant in a child pornography case to come forward with any information about Joyce McLain's murder.

Philip Scott Fournier was being sentenced after pleading guilty to child pornography charges. According to the Bangor Daily News, during the sentencing U.S. District Court Judge John Woodcock urged Fournier to tell police if he knows anything about the murder of Joyce McLain. McLain was sixteen years-old when she was killed in East Millinocket in 1980. She had gone out for a run one summer evening, and never came home. Her body was found two days later, naked and beaten. Joyce's mother, Pam McLain, says Fournier's name was one of more than a dozen brought up over the years. She says she thinks the judge did the right thing bringing it up.

"If his name was mentioned in Joyce's murder on and off through the years, then the judge used good judgement and brought it out" McLain told NEWS CENTER.

Fournier was sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison on the child pornography charges. He filed an appeal of that sentence Tuesday. Public safety spokesman Steve Mccausland says, despite interviewing dozens of people about the murder over the years, state police investigators have not named any suspects of persons of interest.