WCHS (Portland, Maine) Meteorologist Tom Johnston Dead

Johnston’s significant other reported him missing, but would not say anything more. The station would also not make any comment when Johnston went missing.

Well now, FTVLive has learned that Oxford County Sheriff's Department said they were investigating a sexual assault and the suspect was later reported missing. In that time frame, only one missing person report came in.... Tom Johnston.

Police say that the victim reported the rape and that the suspect fled the scene. Police then confirm that the suspect was reported as a missing person.

The news that Johnston might have been a suspect in the assault is well known inside his former newsroom and other newsrooms in town. So far, they have not reported the information.

Autopsy results should be available soon on Johnston's death. Word is that Sheriffs Deputies did do a rape kit on the assault victim and DNA evidence was taken.

At this point, police are not confirming anything, other than to say, they are investigating the rape and that the suspect was also later reported as a missing person. Again, Johnston was the only missing person in that time frame.

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Word is that after the rape victim spoke to police, cops then went to WCHS and spoke to managers at the station.

Police also went to his house and it was then that his significant other reported him missing, according to sources.

Police are still interviewing people about the assault and said that they will not discuss the case as it is an open investigation.

Staff at WCSH have been told "not talk about the Johnston situation."

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WCSH meteorologist Tom Johnston, who committed suicide last month, has been named as the suspect in a sexual assault case.

In a press conference this morning, Oxford County Sheriff, Wayne J. Gallant, announced Johnston would have been charged with gross sexual assault if he were alive.

NH1 posted the report (see below) that says a woman reported that she had been sexually assaulted at a residence and that the suspect left the scene and was later identified as a missing person.

Johnston was initially reported missing by his girlfriend before his body was discovered. As TVSpy previously reported, the local meteorologist never returned from an event he was covering for the station.

He worked at the NBC-affiliate in Portland, Maine for three years. The station is reporting on the latest development.

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