Arraignment set for man charged with toddler’s Christmas 2022 murder

Fri, 12/08/2023 - 12:00pm

The man charged in the Christmas Day 2022 death of a 3-year-old Edgecomb girl is scheduled for an arraignment hearing at 11 a.m. Jan. 11 in Lincoln County Unified Criminal Court. Tyler Witham-Jordan, 29, of Edgecomb and Livermore was arrested Oct. 12 after a nearly year long investigation into the death of Makinzlee Handrahan. Witham-Jordan was charged with Depraved Indifference Murder. 

After a Dec. 4 disposition conference, the court scheduled an arraignment hearing.

The Maine State Police concluded physical evidence pointed toward Witham-Jordan as having committed the murder.