Overview
- Walker was elected Tuesday to one of three available council seats in Bangor in a nine-candidate race.
- She pleaded guilty in 2003 to manslaughter in the 2002 death of Canadian visitor Derek Rogers as well as to perjury, receiving a 10-year prison sentence.
- Investigators reported that Rogers was severely beaten and suffocated with sand at Old Orchard Beach.
- Local reporting indicates the city’s code does not bar people with felony convictions from holding municipal office.
- Walker received 2,231 votes and ran without party affiliation, drawing support from the group Food and Medicine and former council chair Sarah Nichols.