ALFRED, Maine (AP) — The trial is set to begin Monday for a man charged with killing a neighbor with a machete and hiding his body under a pile of rotting deer carcasses.

A jury was seated last week and opening arguments were set to begin in the trial of Bruce Akers, of Limington. He’s accused of killing Douglas Flint, 55, on June 9, 2016, and hiding his body on his property.

Akers was found incompetent to stand trial in July 2018, before he was treated at Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta. He was later found to have “the full range of skills associated with trial competence.”


Akers had suspected Flint of stealing a six-pack of alcohol, and the two reportedly engaged in a dispute over property boundaries, police said.