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July 10, 2010

Sick Fucking Son-of-a-Bitch ... Thayne Ormsby Indicted: killing his 10-year-old son; Jeffrey Ryan , Jesse

A man charged in the stabbing deaths of a 10-year-old boy and two men in northern Maine has waived extradition from New Hampshire.

The Maine attorney general's office said Friday that state police are arranging for the return of 20-year-old Thayne Ormsby to Aroostook County early next week.

A public defender represented Ormsby during his appearance Friday in Rochester District Court. Ormsby has been held in the Strafford County jail since his arrest on July 2 in Dover.

Also Friday, an Aroostook County grand jury indicted Ormsby on three counts of murder in the deaths of Jeffrey Ryan, his 10-year-old son, Jesse, and Jason Dehahn, a friend and neighbor, in Amity, Maine. He also was indicted on one count of arson for setting fire to Jeff Ryan's truck.

Ormsby will be taken to the Aroostook County jail in Houlton, Maine, about a five hour drive north from Dover. A county grand jury handed up three murder indictments against Ormsby yesterday, Stokes said, as well as one for arson.

Maine does not have different charging levels for murder. Sentencing is based on the seriousness of the crime, but the minimum is 25 years, Stoke said.

Ormsby is accused of stabbing to death Jeffrey Ryan, 55, his 10-year-old son Jesse and their friend Jason DeHahn, 30, at the Ryan’s home at 163 Route 1 in Amity, Maine near that state’s eastern border with Canada late last month. Their three bodies were discovered June 23.

He went to Dover following the killings and was arrested there last Friday after turning himself into police.

The strongest evidence in the case is Ormsby’s DNA and fingerprints, which were found on a cigarette butt and a Budweiser beer bottle, respectively, inside Ryan’s home and near two beer bottle that Ryan and DeHahn had apparently drank from.

“The DNA made the case for the most part,” Assistant Strafford County Attorney Kyle Griffin said at his arraignment Monday, adding, “These murders all seem to be in cold blood.”

Maine detectives interviewed Ormsby in Dover last Friday and he told them he killed Jeffrey Ryan because he was a drug dealer, according to a Maine state police affidavit. Police arrested him that same day.

For several weeks prior to the killings, Ormsby had been staying with Robert and Joy Strout and their family in Orient, Maine, the affidavit says. Robert Strout told detectives on Friday that Ormsby came home June 23 with his clothes soaked in blood and told him he had murdered Jeffrey Ryan and “killed them all” and that he would slay Strout and his family unless he helped over up the crime, the affidavit says.

Strout told police he helped Ormsby burn Ryan’s truck and drove him down Route 1 south to toss a knife into a bog.

Along the way, Strout said Ormsby provided chilling details about the killings.

“Thayne told Robert that Jason ran outside and Thayne chased after him and ‘knifed him,’” the affidavit says. “Thayne told Robert he punched Jason and ‘knifed him again then drug [dragged] his body to the brook.’ Thayne told Robert that he went back inside and Jesse was running around. Thayne told Robert that he ‘knifed Jesse in the back bedroom.’”

Stokes said Ormsby has no notable criminal history. He also said Ormsby has no history of mental illness that they know of.

“That may be a possible area to explore when he gets back here,” Stokes said.

Ormsby will be arraigned, likely via video, on the murder and arson charges once he returns to Maine. No date has been set for the arraignment yet.

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