BANGOR, Maine — With a ski mask, a fake Facebook profile and a plan, police say Kyle Dube thought he could make himself a hero.
Now the 21-year-old Maine man is set to go on trial, charged with killing a teenage girl in what authorities call a botched attempt to look like he was rescuing her from a kidnapping.
Dube’s murder trial is expected to last two weeks, and his defense has already received one setback: The judge will not allow his attorneys to name his ex-girlfriend as an alternative suspect in the killing of Nichole Cable, 15.
Dube, of Orono, is accused of using a fake Facebook profile to set up a meeting with the Glenburn teen in May 2013 but ending up killing her in the process of a kidnapping that investigators say he intended to solve himself.
Defense attorneys wanted to name Dube’s former girlfriend, who was dating Dube at the time of the killing, as an alternative suspect, saying the girl disliked Cable because she believed Cable and Dube were seeing each other. But Superior Court Justice Ann Murray on Friday granted the state’s motion to exclude defense attorneys from naming another possible suspect.