AUGUSTA, Maine (Portland Press Herald) — NEWS CENTER's media partner, the Portland Press Herald, reports that Leroy Smith III has been indicted on a charge of murder in the stabbing death of his father.
The 24-year-old Gardiner man was indicted on a charge of intentional or knowing or depraved indifference murder. The grand jury in Kennebec County Superior Court handed up the indictment Friday.
Smith has been held without bail at the Kennebec County jail since his May 6 arrest.
An indictment is not a determination of guilt, but it indicates that there is enough evidence to proceed with formal charges and a trial.
Smith is accused of killing his father May 3 in the Gardiner home they shared.
Smith, who was ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation, told case investigators he killed his father and then "filleted him and buried him in the woods because his dad sexually assaulted him his whole life," according to an affidavit by Maine State Police Detective Jonah C. O'Roak. There is no record of his father, Leroy Herbert Smith Jr., on a sex offender registry in the U.S.
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