The Aroostook man convicted of killing his girlfriend and disposing of her body in 1998 has died in the Maine State Prison.
George Jamie, 87, died about 7:30 a.m. Thursday at the prison in Warren, according to the Maine Department of Corrections.
The Maine attorney general’s office and medical examiner’s office have been notified of his death, as is standard procedure.
Jamie was convicted on Nov. 15, 2013, of the brutal stabbing and beating death of his girlfriend, 38-year-old Starlette Vining, who was last seen alive in October 1998.
During his trial, Jamie’s son, Ted, and friend James Campbell testified that Jamie told them he killed Vining, dismembered her body and burned it in the commercial furnace in the basement of the pawn shop and apartment complex he owned on Main Street in Presque Isle.
Ted Jamie told the court that he took his father for a ride, and they stopped on a bridge over a stream in Westfield, where George Jamie dumped out a can of ashes. Ted Jamie and James Campbell also testified that they helped clean up the murder scene.
Vining’s remains have never been found.
George Jamie was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Dec. 20, 2013,
