Maine AG’s Office Wraps Up Investigation Into Mother/Daughter Murder

The Maine Attorney General's Office has finally put to rest the case of a mother/daughter murder that took place in Franklin County in December of 2023.

The bodies of 76-year-old Jean Robinson of Farmington and her 53-year-old daughter, Allison Cumming of Farmington, were found just days after Christmas, inside a kennel at the Pawsitive Dog Kennel on the Red Schoolhouse Road in Farmington.

The pair lived together in another building on the property.

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Shannon Moss, spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety, says following the State Medical Examiner's autopsy, it was determined they had been murdered.

"The Medical Examiner determined that both Robinson and Cumming died from sharp force injuries, and their deaths were ruled homicides."

Several days later, 56-year-old William Neville Cumming, who was the son of Jean Robinson and brother of Joy Cumming (the two women who had been found dead in the kennel the week before) was discovered to have passed away as well. His death was ruled a suicide.

Moss says that had he not killed himself, he would have been facing charges of murdering his sister and mother.

"At the time of his death, the investigation into the murders of Jean Robinson and Joy Cumming was ongoing but suggested that William Cumming Jr. was responsible for both homicides. Upon completion of the investigation, including forensic testing conducted by the Maine State Crime Laboratory, it was determined that there was probable cause to arrest and charge William Cumming Jr. with the intentional or knowing murders of his mother and sister, had he not taken his own life."