Bangor - Autopsies are being done on three people found dead in a burning car in Bangor, Monday.

The state medical examiner's office has not released their identities or their cause of death yet.

The three were discovered after firefighters responded to a report of a car fire around 3:30 a.m. in an industrial park off outer Hammond Street.

Authorities spent hours collecting evidence on scene Monday, including surveillance video taken from nearby business, Automatic Distributors.

The video shows the car pulling into the lot, but Sgt. Paul Edwards said it hasn't been too helpful.

"Depicts a person, really, I don't even think you can tell gender in the video, a person walking away from the area where the fire was after the car had pulled into the lot," said Edwards.

According to police, the car is a 2001 white Pontiac sedan with a Rhode Island license plate. Edwards wouldn't comment on whether or not it was a rental car, or owned by someone from Maine. While the insides were torched, he said the evidence they were able to find will help them tie the car to somebody.

Authorities have called the deaths suspicious, but Edwards said autopsy results could change the ruling to homicide. Assistant Attorney General Andrew Benson visited the crime scene Monday afternoon. Edwards said it isn't protocol for Benson to visit the scenes of suspicious deaths, but given the gruesome scene in Bangor, it wasn't unusual he was there.

Edwards said police would like to hear from anyone who may have seen the car Sunday night or Monday morning. You can contact the department at 947-7382.

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