Police: 911 caller found Woman is OK, authorities say

ALLAGASH – Maine State Police said Tuesday they believe they have identified the woman who made an emergency 911 call last week from an Allagash home, then apparently disappeared.

Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety, said the woman was well, uninjured and safe. He would not identify the woman and said the investigation was continuing.

The call, made Feb. 22 from the 141 Inn Road home of Collen Nadeau, prompted a search when a woman told dispatchers: “I think he is going to kill me. Could you please get over here. Oh my God Collen don’t.” The emergency call ended abruptly.

There was no woman at the house when police arrived.

“We’ve located the mystery caller, but we are still not sure why she called,” McCausland said. “She denies calling. We are not identifying her at this point. There is little doubt as to whom the caller was.”

Nadeau, 52, the man who lived in the Allagash house where the call originated, was arrested that night on firearms and drug charges. He was held on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm, cultivation of marijuana and possession of cocaine.

Nadeau, who has a criminal record, has not cooperated with police and denied knowledge of a woman being at his home the night of Feb. 22.

Nadeau appeared in Houlton District Court on Thursday afternoon. He was remanded to the Aroostook County Jail in lieu of $15,000 surety or $2,000 cash bail.

Officers who were at Nadeau’s home Feb. 22 called the scene suspicious.

Police found the telephone line to the home had been cut when they arrived. The severed telephone line was outside the home.

A red substance, which police believe may not be blood, was found on the porch of the home and on the snow off the porch. The substance is being analyzed.

Also being analyzed was a white substance that police believed was cocaine.