Police: Maine man staged girl's kidnap to later 'be the hero,' but killed her

[cali]

A man used a fake Facebook account to lure a teenage girl out of her house in an attempt to stage her kidnapping and rescue so he could look like a hero but ended up killing her, a state police affidavit released Wednesday said.

Kyle Dube was indicted Wednesday on charges of murder and kidnapping in the death of 15-year-old Nichole Cable, whose body was found in a wooded area of Old Town this month a week after she went missing.

In an affidavit released after Dube was indicted, Detective Thomas Pickering outlined the scenario leading to the high school sophomore's death. He wrote that Dube told his brother that he used Facebook to trick her into going out of her house in Glenburn, not far from Old Town, while he waited in the woods wearing a ski mask.

When Nichole came along, the 20-year-old Dube jumped out and snatched her, duct-taped her and put her in the back of his father's pickup truck, the affidavit said. Dube later discovered that she was dead, so he dumped her body and covered it with branches, it said.

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[Liberal_in_LA]

1. what an idiot

[arcane1]

2. I had to read that twice to make sure I wasn't hallucinating.

Did this idiot think he was going to get a lifetime supply of free McDonald's???

Surely his brother and girlfriend are partly responsible too, since they apparently knew it happened, though they may not have known in advance. But still...

Of course, the whole "pretend to be a hero" thing could just be bullshit on the perp's part.

Again, ???

[Tien1985]

3. This happened near us.

Everyone has been looking for her since Mother's Day. It's just so senseless and horrible.