Boy, 17, suspected of killing paddleboarder is pictured after murder that’s filled sleepy town with terror
A young child arrested for the death of a rowing board in a sleepy Maine town was first depicted after claiming that he was not guilty of murder.
17 -year -old Develi Young was detained on Wednesday night, and then he was accused of killing 48 -year -old Sunshine Stewart, who was beaten and drowned in Maine, Union, Maine, Maine, on July 3, on the Crawford Pond alone on the rowing board alone.
Young appeared on Friday morning via Zoom, responsible for the death of Stewart at the Knox County court.
He spoke to admit that he only understood the charges against him and that he was given to his lawyer who was appointed by the court.
Judge Eric Walker ordered Young to remain intentionally detained with deliberate, deliberate or immoral indifference with a accusation caused by Stewart’s death. Midcoast peasant notified.
Walker, Police Statements and Additional Information Against Young will be under seal until a status conference was held on August 22, August 22.
17 -year -old Develi Young was detained on Wednesday night and was later accused of the murder of Sunshine Stewart
48 -year -old Sunshine Stewart, Crawford Pond, Union, Maine’de alone for a rowing trip to the early 3 July was found dead.
The state demanded that Young’s case be moved to the adult court, but the movement has not yet been decided.
For now, he is detained at the Long Creek Youth Development Center in Young South Portland.
Young, Frankfort, MainFort, but previously told Daily Mail, Summer Holidays with his family spends his summer holidays on Crawford Pond.
Facebook page said he went to Hampden Academy, but left in 2023. He will be 18 in September.
Young shows that the profile picture poses with a shotgun in a chair, looked at the camera loosely and shows a cartoon that stands up with the American flag.
His last task on the platform dated July 12 included the image of a boat anchored in a lake at sunset. It is not clear where the image is taken.
A friend asked in a comment below the article, Young replied: ‘How are you doing well.’
When the message was sent, the state police rubbed the union crazy to find Stewart’s killer.
Young was arrested on Wednesday evening in the town without incident.
His family and grandmother and grandfather did not respond to their requests for comments.
The state asked Young’s case to be moved to the adult court, but the movement has not been decided yet
Young’s last article on the platform included the image of a boat anchoring a lake at sunset, dated 12 July. It is not clear where the image is taken
Stewart was staying in Maine, Main Mac Campground in Union
Any connection that young people should have Stewart is not yet known.
News about the murder, small, tightly connected to the inhabitants of the union community horrified.
Among them was Stewart’s childhood friend Meredith Smith, Daily Mail was stunned with the arrest of Young.
“I’m relieved that someone was arrested, but the other part says it is far from ending because I feel like there’s much more in this story,” he said.
‘The sun is strong and touchy; He would have a fight … He would give hell to this person. ‘
Maine Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that Young was the only suspect in Stewart’s death.
Stewart left his latest camper on July 2 to Paddledleboarding at Crawford Pond at around 18.00.
When he still did not come back until the early hours of July 3, someone lifted the alarm.
Before Dawn was broken, a search and rescue drone found that Stewart’s rowing board was drifted alone.
His body was later discovered on the southeastern coast of 100 Acre Island, a natural protector in the middle of the pond.
The police did not confirm any detail that Stewart’s body was found, or in which case, only sharing the conditions ‘unusual’.
Meredith Smith, who has known Stewart for forty years, said Daily Mail could not understand why no one would harm him.
A autopsy determined that Stewart’s death was a murder, but law enforcement officers shared several updates for the next two weeks.
Smith told Daily Mail on Monday and said he was fighting to understand why everyone would harm his beloved friend.
“ Everyone who loves him loved him, ” he said. Who would do something like this to him? He didn’t have an enemy … There’s nothing he can do to annoy him enough to hurt him.
‘We are all on the sidelines, very scary… If he can come to him, he can happen to everyone.’
Local police called the union residents to stay calm but to be ‘aware of their circles’.
On Wednesday, as Maine state police first reported, the night of Stewart’s disappearance, it turned out that DNA examples from men near Crawford Pond. Midcoast peasant.
As a result of the DNA, it is unclear whether the arrest of the young man was coming.
Smith said Daily Mail is afraid of what DNA search for DNA can show Stewart’s latest life moments.
“I feel like I’m implying something they take, not only from women, but only from men,” he said.
“ You wonder, can this be done by someone obsessed with him? Or maybe he was in the wrong place completely randomly and in the wrong time. ‘
‘He was a strong person and he would have a hard struggle for them because he was touchy.’
Stewart – a sea biologist, lobster, bartender and boat captain – died with drowning and blunt force trauma
When the police offered very little on the way to update until Thursday, radio silence caused rumors, conspiracies and to develop in the town of Small Union.
The news about Stewart’s death renewed the fear of a serial killer that he could identify victims in New England after an unexplained death.
Since March 2025, at least 13 bodies have been discovered in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine, most of them were found in forest or secluded areas and some sank in water.
Most of the deaths cannot be explained, most of the victims show visible trauma.
In multiple states, law enforcement officers rejected the re -approved connection between the cases and invited the public to call out to the consequences and call them to sell unquestioned speculations.
Various experts have claimed that there is no consistent pattern between crimes, sacrificial profiles, deaths and a very changing suspicious reasons to be a person’s job.
Nevertheless, the union residents were afraid of the worst.
“People are definitely doing this conversation, but they feel a little away for me, Smith said on Monday.
‘When you look at where Sunny was killed, unless you really familiar with the secluded and the region, you are unlikely to know how to go to Crawford Pond.’
Stewart was remembered as a woman who loves nature and loves positivity
Stewart’s ruins were found on the southeastern coast of 100 Acre Island, a natural protector in the middle of the pond.
At least 13 bodies have been discovered in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine since March 2025
The Union is a sleepy hamlet where most inhabitants recognize each other – where people rarely lock their doors.
However, since Stewart’s murder, Smith has kept the gate tightly bolts and often caught the unknown faces by looking at his shoulder or with suspicion.
In the meantime, Smith, carpenter, sea biologist, lobster, bartender and boat captain continues to upset the loss of his friend.
Smith said: ‘He was a strong -willed, independent, outgoing and adventurous nature power. He had a smile and a very infectious laughter.
‘Sunny lived daily, who loved what he did and just enjoyed his life… destructive.’
Inspectors, on the evening of July 2, everyone who sees Stewart rowing on the phone number 207-624-7076 wants to reach Maine State Police.
