Rhonda Pattelena

Last March, Rhonda Pattelena, a 35-year-old mother of three boys from Bedford, Massachusetts, was visiting Short Sands Beach in York with her domestic partner, 33-year-old, Jeffrey Buchanan. Police say during that seaside visit, he killed her.

A man who was charged in the death of his partner on a Maine beach has entered a plea of not criminally responsible by reason of insanity. Police found 35-year-old Rhonda Pattelena dead on Short Sands Beach a year ago. An autopsy later determined she died from blunt force injury to the head. Police charged Jeffrey Buchannan with murder stemming…

A man accused of killing a Bedford mother on a beach in York, Maine, was arraigned Tuesday.

A Massachusetts man charged with fatally beating his domestic partner on a Maine beach was ordered held without bail Tuesday. Jeffrey Buchannan, 33, of Bedford, Massachusetts, is charged in the killing of his domestic partner, Rhonda Pattelena, 35, at Short Sands Beach in York, officials said. He appeared before a judge in York County on Tuesday. The judge also ordered…

Friends are remembering a mother of three from Massachusetts who police say was brutally murdered Friday afternoon on a beach in Maine by her domestic partner. Rhonda Pattelena, 35, of Bedford, Massachusetts, was found dead on Short Sands Beach in York, Maine, after state and local police received multiple 911 calls about a man assaulting a woman behind a large…

Rhonda Pattelena, 35, of Bedford, Massachusetts, was found dead on Short Sands Beach after police received multiple 911 calls about a man assaulting a woman there.