A campground where a Tenants Harbor woman was recently murdered had seen a lot of police activity prior to the killing.
That’s the finding of a TV station’s review of police logs showing calls for service at Mic Mac Cove in Union.
Using Maine’s Freedom of Access Act, WMTW obtained police-call logs from the two years before Sunshine Stewart’s bludgeoning.
The Knox County Sheriff’s Office logs show police were called to the site 28 times from June 1, 2023, to July 1, 2025.
The majority of calls happened during the camping season – May through early October – and most occurred during daylight hours.
Stewart’s beaten body was found July 3 on an island in Crawford Pond. She’d gone out paddleboarding and never returned.
A 17-year-old camper, Deven Young, was arrested nearly two weeks later and charged with her murder. Young is being held at a juvenile correctional center in southern Maine.
A court hearing is scheduled later this month on attempts by prosecutors to charge him as an adult.
The Maine Wire reached out to Katharine Lunt who runs the campground, for comment.
In the wake of WMTW’s report, Phillip Brunelle, a freelance journalist and administrator of a widely-followed Facebook crime-watch investigative site, said, “I will be releasing the details of all the police reports filed from criminal offenses at the campground.”
Brunelle has published first-person accounts from a woman claiming to have been sexually assaulted at the campground in 2023. He said more women have since come forward with similar claims.
A quarter of the calls at Lunt’s campground in the last two years were for trespassing, according to WMTW.
“It can be something as routine as someone who has overly imbibed by the campfire and is making too much darn noise,” said Noel March, a former U.S. marshal and veteran Maine police official.
“Other campers are trying to sleep, and management says, ‘Out you go.’”
Two calls were for harassment, two for disorderly conduct, one domestic incident and one alleged sex offense.
WMTW and ABC News have previously quoted Lunt portraying herself as a hands-on manager.
“I’m very involved with the campers,” Lunt was quoted. “I go around every day, drive through the campground and check on things. That’s just part of being a campground owner.”
Following Stewart’s murder, Lunt told ABC News safety has always been a priority.
