{"id":39247,"date":"2025-08-01T23:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/39247\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T23:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:46:11","slug":"eight-monsters-involved-in-kidnap-rape-and-murder-of-girl-13-held-her-underwater-until-bubbles-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/39247\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight ‘monsters’ involved in kidnap, rape and murder of girl, 13, held her underwater ‘until bubbles stopped’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group of eight ‘monsters’ banded together in a sick plot which saw a 13-year-old girl kidnapped, gangraped, and then killed – with her remains left floating in a river for nine months.<\/p>\n

Maryann Measles was last seen on October 19, 1997, when she was abducted from a supermarket parking lot by five men and three women, who she had considered to be her friends.<\/p>\n

The seventh grader had been waiting in the car while her mother carried out errands at the time.<\/p>\n

Measles endured a campaign of torture in the moments before her death, which is laid bare in the latest episode of Investigation Discovery’s documentary series A Killer Among Friends.<\/p>\n

And, after her kidnapping, it would be years before her loved ones got answers over what happened to her – and who was responsible for her murder. Here, FEMAIL unpacks the senseless violence.<\/p>\n

After being snatched from her mother’s car, Measles was taken to River Road in New Milford, Connecticut<\/a> where her known attackers – Keith Foster, Dorothy Hallas, Maggie Mae Bennett, Alan Walter, Jeffrey Boyette, Ronald Rajcok, Deaneric Dupas, and June Segar – began beating her.<\/p>\n

The three women who participated in the murder were said to be angry that the teenager had sex with their boyfriends. Measles, however, had been a victim of statutory rape.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Although she broke away and ran for help, she was chased down by one of the perpetrators, Segar, and dragged back to her death.<\/p>\n

\"Maryann <\/p>\n

Maryann Measles was last seen on October 19, 1997, when she was abducted from a supermarket parking lot by five men and three women<\/p>\n

\"It <\/p>\n

It was years before her friends and family members found out the truth about what happened\u00a0<\/p>\n

Recounting hearing how his late friend Measles died, a man named Scott said in the documentary: ‘Them beating on her and raping her and holding her under the water until the bubbles stopped, that’s probably the comment that haunts me the most.<\/p>\n

‘Until the bubbles stopped.’<\/p>\n

Another friend, Donna, added: ‘They wrapped her in blankets and chains and they threw her into the river. It breaks my heart that I wasn’t there to help her.’<\/p>\n

Months before her life was taken, Measles began hanging out with the group of older friends who would later attack and kill her.<\/p>\n

One evening, she confessed to her mother that she had been raped by some of the older men in the group, including Walter and Foster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Measles’s mother took her to the police station to file statutory rape charges against the men, however only filed a report regarding Walter.<\/p>\n

Although they planned to file a report against Foster, the group of friends hatched a plan to silence Measles, who had opened up about her ordeal and confined in her plan to June.<\/p>\n

Nine months after her death, Measles’s body was found in Lake Lillinonah in Connecticut, but it was still years before police made any progress.<\/p>\n

\"Measles <\/p>\n

Measles was in the seventh grade when her friends kidnapped her and killed her<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2001, four years later, cops offered a $50,000 reward for people to come forward with evidence to help solve the case.<\/p>\n

Segar, one of the killers, was keen to get her hands on the money and in 2005, she reached out to police and led them to a crucial piece of evidence: an abandoned washing machine in the middle of the woods containing Measles’s clothes.<\/p>\n

After linking herself to the crime, Segel admitted that there was eight people involved in the murder and that Walter orchestrated it.<\/p>\n

Speaking in the documentary, Measles’s friend Ashleigh said: ‘I was just so sick to think that Mariann thought she was hanging out with friends, but they were planning on murdering her.’<\/p>\n

‘It was mind-blowing seeing their pictures in cuffs in the news and all over the newspapers,’ Scott added.<\/p>\n

‘It was like wow, I spent every day with those people. I was hanging out with a group of murderers and I didn’t even know it.<\/p>\n

‘I will always harbour some guilt and blame because I literally introduced one of my best friends to her killers and that will never go away.’<\/p>\n

Walter had sex with the teen’s corpse before they wrapped her in blanket, tied it with a chain and padlock and then pushed her into the lake.<\/p>\n

Foster was the only perpetrator whose case went to trial where he was sentenced to 110 years in prison.<\/p>\n

\"Keith <\/p>\n

Keith Foster was sentenced to 110 years in prison for his role in Measles’s murder\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Alan <\/p>\n

Alan Walter plead guilty to felony murder, first-degree kidnapping, conspiracy to commit first-degree kidnapping, conspiracy to commit first-degree sexual assault, and tampering with physical evidence\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was guilty on charges that included felony murder, first-degree sexual assault, three counts of first-degree kidnapping, conspiracy to commit first-degree kidnapping, tampering with a witness, and tampering with physical evidence.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Walter was handed a 60-year sentence for his involvement and was charged with felony murder.<\/p>\n

For their part in the murder, Boyette was sentenced to 50 years, Dupas was sentenced to 47 years , Rajcok was sentenced to 36 years, Segar was sentenced to 30 years, and Hallas was sentenced to 25 years.<\/p>\n

Bennett was sentenced to 19 years after she was charged with first-degree kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, risk of injury to a minor, tampering with a witness, and tampering with evidence.<\/p>\n

At the time of writing, only one out of the eight perpetrators has been released.<\/p>\n

Bennett, who received the lightest sentence due to her plea deal, was freed in 2019 after 19 years.<\/p>\n

She testified that at least three of the boys took turns raping Measles before dragging her to the water to drown her.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on the murder, Measles’s younger sister commented in the documentary: ‘Two of the guys would have got 18 months for statutory rape, so instead they ended her life and ruined all of ours forever.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I’ve never raised my kids to believe there are not monsters\u2026 I’ve lived my life with eight monsters.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of eight ‘monsters’ banded together in a sick plot which saw a 13-year-old girl kidnapped, gangraped,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7192,97,519,59,102,22708,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-39247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-connecticut","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-femail","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-true-crime","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}