I feel bad for this family. He ought not to have been outside. He should not have been outside.
Darcia Ann Maney says she knows how violent and abusive Richard Thorpe, 42, can be because she was married to him for six years and had to deal with it.
He is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend last week on Larkin Street in Bangor.
Maney says, “He always told me he was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—he can make anyone think he is what he wants them to think he is, but on the inside he is a monster.”
She says they met in 2014, got married in 2016, and got a divorce in 2021 after he was found guilty of several domestic violence charges, such as attack and terrorising.
Early this year, she was told that Thorpe might be sent to a different Bangor facility, but she did not know where or when that might happen. Then she saw on the news that Cookson had died.
That is not right.” It is not fair. It is not fair to her friends and family. A lot of people loved her.
That man caused a lot of trouble for my kids and me, and I still feel like he is following us around. “I think anyone who knows that woman well knows what that man has done to her in the last four months,” she says.
She now wants to help Cookson’s family and other victims who have been or are in violent relationships like the one she had with Thorpe, who she says would always threaten to hurt her family.
It is not that we want them back.” It is to protect our family. “Keep our kids safe,” she says.
She wants to speak up for people who have been hurt like Cookson.
She can not speak anymore.” This beautiful, sweet woman should not have been hurt, and she did not deserve it. I wish I had reached out. I wish I had helped last time. I feel bad that I did not do that. “Now I am going to help finish,” she says.
The walk on Tuesday is open to everyone.
A group of people will meet at the Phenix hotel in Bangor at 1:30.
At 4 p.m., there will be a group discussion and community talk at Eastern Maine Community College.