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Biddeford landlord who murdered 2 tenants dies in prison
By Leigh Tass, Bangor Daily News Staff
CHARLESTON — A man serving a life sentence for killing two Maine teenagers in a landlord-tenant dispute has died in prison.
James Earl Pak, 86, of Biddeford was convicted on two counts of murder in 2016 for killing 19-year-old Derrick Thompson and 18-year-old Alivia Welch. Thompson and Welch were renting a unit from Pak when he fatally shot them in December 2012.
Pak died just before 5 a.m. Saturday, May 25 at the Mountain View Correctional Facility according to a press statement from the Maine Department of Corrections.
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