She Rammed His Boat and Said Nothing: The Alice Erickson Case

She Rammed His Boat and Said Nothing: The Alice Erickson Case

The harbor lights were still on and six live lobsters lay in two perfect parallel rows on a stern deck while the fuel gauge read zero - and the captain was nowhere to be found. Who returned a vessel to port with every running light burning and left two men stranded eight nautical miles out, while claiming no memory of arranging the lobsters?

In this episode, we walk through the timeline from a nine-fifteen PM lure text to a nine-fifty-seven PM AIS blackout and an eleven-oh-four PM discovery, showing who saw the boat leave, who did not act, and which records reveal the night’s movements - and asking what really happened on the water that night.

Person: Alice Erickson
Location: Kessler Bay, Maine
Date: Second week of July (same year as charges)
Case: Resolved - charges filed fall of same year
Vessel: Constance M., 32-foot lobster vessel

- At 9:15 PM Alice received a text claiming her trap buoys had been cut loose in the northeast sector.
- The Constance M. departure was logged at 9:40 PM as an unusual nighttime outing.
- The vessel’s AIS transponder went dark at 9:57 PM while still inside the inner harbor channel.
- Four men were left stranded eight nautical miles from shore after a 22-foot center console was rammed broadside and its fuel line ruptured.
- At 6:15 AM a runner found six banded lobsters arranged in two parallel rows on the Constance M.’s dry engine cover and every running light still burning.

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