Short Sands Beach

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…

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.