On January 25, 2021, 42-year-old Jessica Dapolito of New Sharon, Maine, was found dead inside her Hovey Road home during a welfare check. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined Jessica had been shot and killed by her longtime partner, 55-year-old Robert Dapolito, who then died by a self-inflicted gunshot in an apparent domestic violence homicide-suicide. The couple were not legally married but had been together about 23 years and both worked for a social service agency. They left behind two children, Patrick and Casey.

Jessica’s family had endured similar violence before: her parents, Thomas and Michelle Masse, were killed in a murder-suicide in January 2018, and in 2010 Robert’s brother, Patrick Dapolito, was convicted of killing his wife, Kelly Winslow. With Robert deceased, no arrests were made in Jessica’s death. If anyone knew Jessica or the family and has information that could shed light on the events of January 25, please come forward.