Mother of girl, 15, found dead in the Maine woods blames social media for her death after staring suspected murderer, 20, down in court
- Authorities found the remains of Nichole Cable in a wooded area in Maine 20 miles from her home
- Acquaintance Kyle Dube, 20, is charged with her murder and made his first appearance in court Wednesday
- Cable's mother sobbed in court and stared him down
- Cable, of Glenburn, was last seen at home on May 12
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The mother of a 15-year-old girl from Maine who was allegedly killed by an older man that she was seeing blames her daughter's death on social media.
Nichole Cable's mother, Kristine Wiley, told the Bangor Daily News that her daughter had communicated with her accused killer through social media. She would not provide any details on the communication, as she has been asked by authorities not to reveal anything about the investigation, but friends say the two had met through Facebook.
Wiley is urging parents to be watchful over their children's activity online.
'If this saves somebody else’s child, then this won’t have happened for nothing,' Wiley told the newspaper.
Kyle Dube, 20, of Orono, Maine, seen here in a June 2012, was charged Tuesday, May 21, 2013 with murder in the death of Nichole Cable, right, who was last seen May 12, 2013
Cable's accused killer, 20-year-old Kyle Dube, of Orono, appeared in court for the first time on Wednesday wearing a printed T-shirt and jeans. He is charged with knowing and intentional murder in the death of Cable, whose body was discovered more than a week after her disappearance in a wooded area in Old Town. Authorities have not revealed her cause of death.
A criminal complaint says Dube killed Cable in her hometown of Glenburn on May 12, the night that she disappeared.
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ShareCable's mother was present at Dube's hearing Wednesday, which lasted only five minutes. She was carrying a pillow that had belonged to her daughter and she sobbed as she watched the proceedings, the Portland Press Herald reported.
When Dube initially walked into the hearing, she stood and stared at him until her husband made her sit down.
A judge ordered Dube held without bail pending a hearing.
Prosecutors said 'electronic media' was 'clearly involved' in the relationship between Cable and Dube. Friends said the two had met online about two months before her disappearance.
Missing: Authorities believe they have found the body of Nichole Kristine Cable, 15, who has been missing since Sunday night
Tyler-Ann Harris, a 16-year-old who described herself as Nichole's best friend, said Dube and Nichole had planned to see each other the weekend she vanished, before he had to report to jail for a 90-day sentence for a 2012 motorcycle chase.
Harris, who met Nichole this year at Old Town High School where they were students, said she had never met Dube and wasn't sure of their relationship status.
She said Nichole wasn't fearful of him.
'She was really happy even though she went through a lot of hard stuff in her life. She always knew how to see the bright side of things,' Harris said, using a tissue to dab tears in her eyes.
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Share'She didn't always get along with people, and she had an attitude. But that's a teenage girl. And she was just happy all the time.'
When he was charged, Dube was already in jail after turning himself in to the Penobscot County Sheriff's Department on Friday on an unrelated charge, Coleman said.
Dube’s Facebook page shows he twice posted the flier about Cable being missing last week.
The day after she went missing he reportedly posted, 'OK so I don’t with the droma. Let’s get this straight. I KYLE DUBE is and always will be with [my girlfriend]. We have had are up and downs but we have worked them out so stop talking to me if you are trying to flirt and guys you better stop hitting on [her] I get crazy when I’m pissed off and I’m about there.'
Heartbroken: Nichole's mother has released a heart-breaking plea that whomever is with her that they return her home safely or in a public place where she can call for help
Cable's body was found at about 9:30 p.m. Monday by a warden who was searching the woods with a dog, officials said. The exact location was not disclosed.
Nichole's mother has said that she last saw her daughter on May 12 when she said she was going out to meet someone she knew from Facebook, but didn't know who that person was.
She had pleaded for her daughter to come home, saying she won't be in trouble.
Dozens of law enforcement officers, using aircraft and dogs, and hundreds of civilian volunteers had spent days searching for the teen, who lived in Glenburn.
'This initially started as a missing person's case and sadly it's transitioned to a homicide investigation,' said Penobscot County Sheriff Glenn Ross.
On a Facebook page labeled Bring Nichole Cable Home, Wiley wrote, 'Please if you have my CoCo, drop her off at a gas station or a park so she can call for help or for me to come get her.
'I don't care who you are, I just want her home. She's just a little girl of 15 with her whole life ahead of her. Please bring her home!'
Her father had noted last week that his daughter's phone had been shut off and he had 'not heard any word from her through social media or friends.'
Cable had light brown hair and blue eyes and weighed just 90 pounds. She was a student at Old Town High School.
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