By Thomas J. Morgan
A year ago today:
A car with Rhode Island license plates is found burning in Bangor, Maine, with three bodies inside. Rhode Island law enforcement sources say the license plates have been traced to a car-rental business in Rhode Island.
5 years ago today:
Philip A. Magaldi, a former Rhode Island pastor accused of sexually abusing children, has died in Texas. He was accused of lying as part of the 1980s attempted murder case involving socialite Claus von Bulow and embezzling more than $120,000 from his North Providence parish, St. Anthony's.
On Aug. 13, 1988
25 years ago today:
Police charge Pedro Espinosa, 20, of 60 Prairie Ave. with assault with intent to murder in the shooting July 29 of Vidal Mendez of 257 Lenox Ave.