The 34-year-old man charged with allegedly murdering his wife in Readfield on Wednesday is a former SpaceX engineer who traveled the globe extensively with his now-deceased partner, a French woman who documented the luxurious trip on social media before the pair moved back to Maine.
Maine State Police were called Wednesday to the Giles Road residence of Dorothy Whittemore, 67, and arrived to find 32-year-old Margaux Whittemore, née Margaux Nguyen, deceased in the driveway, also unclothed.
Police took into custody Samuel Whittemore of Belfast, Dorothy’s son and Margaux’s husband, who had fled the scene.
According to a press release from Maine State Police spokesperson Shannon Moss, the suspect’s mother was found at the residence suffering from injuries and later hospitalized in Lewiston. She is in stable condition.
Samuel Whittemore was briefly taken to Maine General Hospital in Augusta for a medical evaluation before being taken to Kennebec County Jail and charged with murder.
Margaux and Samuel had recently moved back to Maine and were living in Belfast.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Whittemore is a 2014 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who worked as a Senior Avionics Systems Engineer at SpaceX until 2021.
The profile also describes him as the captain of the Havili, a 50-foot sailboat which he sailed across the Pacific, “with stops in Mexico, French Polynesia, Tonga, New Zealand, [and] Hawaii.”
Prior to Whittemore’s alleged homicidal outburst, the young couples’ life story played out across Instagram in dreamlike fashion, with the pair exploring the world together by land and by sea — the modern equivalent of a story book romance and life story.
According to Margaux’s social media posts, the pair met in 2021 and wed in Acadia National Park in September of last year.
Police have yet to release a motive.
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May she RIP. He looks off in his mugshot.
There’s obviously a bizarre but interesting story behind all this.
“Prior to Whittemore’s alleged homicidal outburst…”
Sophomoric. Just because the story author and editor used the adjective ‘alleged,’ the.additional adjective and noun — and the wording of the whole statement — could make it very uncomfortable explaining yourselves during litigation. But I am sure your lawyers(s) won’t mind charging you $700-$1,000 per hour.
If you want to be like Capote, then write reality fiction. Recommend you try to be better than this. Respectfully.
I’m sure there are other areas they could move money around to cover this created deficit. Not paying hospitals does tug at the voters much more than being 118 million short on supporting immigrants, climate initiatives, DEI, large breastfeeding brats for men, foolish energy policies and on and on and on.
How dare you take their own photos from their personal accounts and sensationalize their story. This is embarrassing for you. Get your facts right.
Was this in alfred maine
What does being an ex-spaceX employee have to do with it? You dont often see past employment history mentioned in similar incidents like this, no less than in the title…
her family set up a gofundme. please consider donating if you have the means so that her family can get her body back to France.