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| NHF851110A November 10, 1985; Allenstown, Merrimack County | |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Jul 13 2008, 01:25 AM Post #1 |
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Unidentified White Female The victim was discovered on November 10, 1985 in Allenstown, Merrimack County, New Hampshire Estimated Date of Death: 1-4 years prior Skeletal Remains -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vital Statistics Estimated age: 5-10 years old Approximate Height and Weight: 4'3" Distinguishing Characteristics: Possibly Native. Dark blonde or light brown, fine hair. Double-pierced ears. Dentals: Shovel shaped anterior dentition. DNA: Pending -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Case History On November 10, 1985, the skeletal remains of a female and one female child were located in Allenstown, NH. The bodies, wrapped in plastic strips, was found by a hunter in a wooded area between the Bear Brook Gardens trailer park and Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown. They were in a wooded area far from any roads. The cause of each death was repeated blows to the head from a blunt instrument, although there was evidence of other injuries. On May 9, 2000, the skeletal remains of two additional female children were recovered. DNA testing confirmed that two of the children were biologically related to the adult female. All four victims may be biologically linked, but DNA results are still pending. All four decedents are believed to be Caucasian or Native American and they are believed to have died in the early 1980's. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Investigators If you have any information about this case please contact: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children B.J. Spamer 913-469-5437 You may remain anonymous when submitting information. Agency Case Number: 85-1051 Source Information: UDRS http://www.doenetwork.org/ |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Jul 13 2008, 01:29 AM Post #2 |
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| tatertot | Mar 26 2009, 12:37 PM Post #3 |
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http://www.wmur.com/news/19013578/detail.html Police Look For Answers In Cold Case Cutting-Edge Techniques May Help Crack Case UPDATED: 5:34 am EDT March 26, 2009 ALLENSTOWN, N.H. -- A mystery that has gone unsolved in Allenstown since the mid-1980s is getting a fresh look with new science. Four bodies -- one woman and three children -- were found left in metal drums in the Allenstown woods. "They were stuffed in barrels like they weren't worth anything," said state police Detective John Sonia. "So we think we're dealing with a suspect who has the capacity for this type of violence." Investigators said they know many details of the mystery, but they lack answers. They said they're now hopeful that something as simple as tap water can put names with the faces. "We knew we weren't dealing with two separate homicides," Sonia said. "They were all linked together." In November 1985, a hunter found a tipped-over, 55-gallon drum near Bear Brook State Park, not far from a burned-down convenience store. "You could see basically packaging of some type, and as he examined closer, he noticed there was a skull there," Sonia said. The hunter had found the remains of an adult woman and a girl, somewhere between 5 and 10 years old. Both had been beaten about the head. But with badly decomposed remains and no missing persons report that matched, the case stalled until 2000, when it was reassigned to another trooper. "He goes out to the scene, starts looking around and locates another barrel, another 55-gallon metal barrel," Sonia said. "At that point, we find the remains of two female children in that barrel, also." Investigators said they believe the all the remains are closely connected. "We believe that all four of these individuals are connected based on the testing that was done, the similarities and the condition of the bodies and how they were disposed of," said Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Strelzin. "We believe these four individuals are connected, aside from just being the victim of a murder." "It's possible, and the circumstances make it seem like they're a family, but it's not definite," said forensic investigator Kim Fallon. The youngest victim could be as little as 1 year old. DNA has linked two of the children to the adult, but their specific relationship is unclear. Police said there could be many reasons why, in 24 years, no one went looking for them. "That was a different time," Sonia said. "You didn't have cell phones back then. You didn't have the Internet back then. People weren't as connected, so it's possible four people went missing and maybe a local police department was notified and it didn't go any further than that, and that's some distance from New Hampshire." Sonia said the four could be from Canada or transients. There are no reports of four people missing together from that time. With a case this cold, investigators said they know forensic science is one way to get answers. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has produced composites of three victims based on their remains, but the descriptions are rather broad with large age ranges and race varying from Caucasian to Native American. "When you have bodies that are outdoors for a long period of time, they are being exposed to the weather extremes, heat, cold and bacteria,' said Kim Rumrill of the stte police forensics lab. "All these things work against you trying to find a DNA profile." Investigators are now turning to water. A new technique links isotopes found in drinking water to different regions of the country. Those isotopes are found in human hair, and samples from the adult victim are now being tested. "If she traveled they can get the travel history because they analyze segments of the hair, each segment separately," Fallon said. Police said it's the first of three steps -- learn where they're from, discover who they are, and then find the killer. "There's a lot of, I guess, force involved," Sonia said. "Again, it's pretty brutal. So that shows some kind of level of intimacy to take those, to do that to the bodies and to dispose of them the way they disposed of them." State police are asking anyone with information to contact them at 603-271-2663 or nhsp.intel@dos.nh.gov.
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 28 2009, 10:24 PM Post #4 |
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Unsolved crimes are not forgotten By PHILLIP BANTZ Sentinel Staff Published: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 A Peterborough teenager who was stabbed to death while working at a gas station and a serial killer who stalked women living along the Connecticut River Valley are among the state’s 75 cold case homicides dating back to the late 1960s. All cold cases, defined as a crime that has remained unsolved for at least a year, are assigned to the 13 detectives in the N.H. State Police Major Crime Unit. They investigate these cases when they’re not working fresh crimes. “We only have so much time to spend on cold cases, probably a couple of hours a month,” Sgt. Scott K. Gilbert said. “I would love to see a cold case unit, but we’re experiencing tough economic times like anyone else. We just do the best we can with what we’ve got.” Only one cold case has been solved in the last four decades, Gilbert said. That was the 1985 murder of Danny Paquette, who was shot to death while welding outside his barn in Hooksett. “That one went cold for 20-plus years,” Gilbert said. “There was always a suspect, and we had some new information brought forward and a new attempt was made at approaching the suspect. This time, given the amount of time that had passed, he was more willing to talk.” Eric Windhurst finally confessed to killing Paquette. He pleaded guilty in 2006 to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Sgt. Steve F. Rowland is hoping to solve the Connecticut River Valley murders of at least six women in the 1980s. The slayings are believed to be the work of a serial killer. Evidence in the case has undergone DNA testing but could not be linked to Michael Nicholau, a person of interest in the case, Rowland said. Other evidence is still being processed, he said. Nicholau lived in the area where the killings took place. He later moved to Florida, where he killed his second wife and stepdaughter before turning his gun on himself. Nicholau’s first wife disappeared in 1988 from Holyoke, Mass. Rowland is working with a private investigator in Florida who believes Nicholau is the Connecticut River Valley killer, and said he still receives tips about the killings. None of the tips have been credible, but Rowland remains optimistic. “I think it’s a solvable case, even after all this time. It’s just a matter of finding the right evidence to connect the case to the right person,” he said. “We just keep looking at possible ways and new technologies and it just takes time to get some of that stuff done.” Craig R. Lane, a 17-year-old senior at Conval Regional High School in Peterborough, was stabbed seven times in January 1989 while working at a gas station off Route 202. Cash was stolen from the station during the murder. “All the troopers, even though they may not have been on in 1989, are still aware of this case,” said Capt. Allen Welch, who worked the Lane murder. “This is one of those cases that you hope some day is going to be solved.” Scissors and a pile of receipts from the gas station that were dated from the night of the murder were discovered buried near the station years after the crime. “We tried for blood evidence on the scissors, but we were never able to tie those directly to the crime,” Welch said. “The receipts appear to be tied in.” Police also discovered a hunting jacket that may have belonged to Lane’s killer in a trash bin near the station. “That was the one piece of evidence we released to the public, hoping someone would be able to identify that coat,” Welch said. “It never came to fruition.” Investigators often rely on media coverage and tips from the public to solve cold cases. The state police are now working with WMUR-TV to breathe new life into a grisly 24-year-old quadruple homicide out of Allenstown, Gilbert said. “Four bodies were found in a 55-gallon drum in 1985 in Bear Brook State Park. There was a mother, two children and another child that appears to be related to the other children,” he said. “We have the bones and hair and we’re going to try to utilize new DNA technologies to identify the bodies.” Investigators are also working with a facial reconstructionist to bring sketches or clay models of what the victims’ faces may have looked like to the public. “Hopefully someone will recognize these faces or someone who was afraid back then to talk with us will step forward,” Gilbert said. “How does a woman and three children go missing and no one knows anything about them? It just doesn’t seem possible.” Detectives are close to making an arrest in a case from 1987 based on new DNA evidence, Gilbert said. He declined to provide details of the case. “I can’t talk about it because we’re going to be acting on it pretty quickly, like in the next two weeks,” he said. “We hope to make contact with the suspect and make progress in solving this case.” DNA tests on old evidence can break a cold case wide open, but the tests are expensive and time-consuming, Gilbert said. “We try to go through all these cold cases and see if there is physical evidence that could be tested for DNA,” he said. “We haven’t done that for all of our cases. But it’s still a goal.” http://sentinelsource.com/articles/2009/02...e/id_342080.txt |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 29 2009, 09:45 AM Post #5 |
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http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:Hb19M...n&ct=clnk&gl=us Tap-water test on hair may help ID cold-case victims 2 hours, 9 minutes ago ALLENSTOWN – Investigators may know in about a month if they have a key to the area from which four murder victims -- found in metal drums in the woods here years ago -- might have come from. Two of the bodies, an adult female and a female child, were found by a hunter in 1985 in a 55-gallon drum near Bear Brook State Park. The other two bodies, both female children, were found in another barrel in 2000 by a state trooper newly assigned to the cold case. State Police Major Crime Det. John Sonia said the first two bodies had been beaten about the head and were stuffed into the barrels. Because the bodies were badly decomposed and no missing persons reports matched, the investigation stalled until a trooper newly assigned to the case looked around the area and found the second barrel. Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Strelzin yesterday said tests on the hair of the adult female should reveal where the victims might have come from. He said isotopes found in drinking water in different regions of the country can be found in hair. "Hopefully it will give us a region and an approximate date," he said. Strelzin said if nothing in the United States matches, the search may be extended to Canada or Mexico because there are some indications there may be some Native American heredity to the victims. "We're trying to keep an open mind," he said. While investigators believe all of the victims are related, DNA tests so far have linked only two of the children to the adult woman. Strelzin said two kinds of DNA testing are underway on the third child. Allenstown Police Chief Shaun Mulholland said yesterday he is pleased about the new efforts to resolve the case, which would clear up four of the six unsolved murders in Allenstown. He said his department does not have the staff to conduct the kind of investigation that can be done by the State Police. I'm glad they brought it to light." he said. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jan 5 2010, 04:36 PM Post #6 |
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Names of murdered lost over decades - Police hope to identify bodies left in barrels Concord Monitor (NH) - Friday, March 27, 2009 Author: KAREN LANGLEY ; Monitor staff At least 25 years have passed since a woman and three children were murdered, stuffed into barrels and left near Bear Brook State Park. The remains of the woman and one child were found spilling from a barrel in 1985. Fifteen years later, a state trooper revisiting the dormant case found the other remains in a barrel about 100 yards away. The four have never been identified. There are other unsolved murders in New Hampshire, an average of about two per year, but these four victims are the only unidentified ones known to the chief of the attorney general's homicide unit. The void of information about their lives has crippled hopes of explaining their deaths. "Here the resources are going into identifying the victims," said Jeff Strelzin, senior assistant attorney general and homicide unit chief. "Normally in a homicide crime the resources are going to solving the crime. Getting to who killed them without knowing who they are is next to impossible." Now authorities hope advances in forensic technology could help to identify the remains left in the Allenstown woods. A new technique for analyzing hair could yield clues about where the victims lived before their deaths. Analysts at a Utah lab are studying the woman's hair for isotopes peculiar to the drinking water of different regions. Investigators believe narrowing the search would increase the chance of finding someone who had contact with the victims. Tracing evidence to a particular location has helped investigators before. In 2004, after Concord resident Manuel Gehring told the police he had forgotten where he buried his son and daughter after killing them, tests of pollen found with his shovel led to the discovery of the bodies in Ohio. State investigators are also awaiting nuclear DNA tests being performed by the FBI. These tests would provide individual DNA profiles that could be used to find family members listed in federal databases. If the victims are identified, investigators will at last be able to ask the questions that are usually the first steps in solving a murder. When they do, they will be looking for a killer who committed a personal, violent crime, said Detective John Sonia of the State Police Major Crime Unit. The woman and the child found with her were killed by blunt force trauma to their heads, Sonia said. The medical examiner did not determine how the pair of children died, he said, but ruled they had been murdered. "This case was particularly heinous and brutal," he said. "It either shows some kind of relationship between the perpetrator and victims that's so close and personal where they were bludgeoned and put in barrels." But people who murder their entire families more often use methods like poisoning or shooting, he said. Crimes of intense violence are typically committed against a single victim, he said. "On the other hand, a serial perpetrator, a serial stalker with multiple victims, as we believe they're from one time. . . . That gives a different profile, a psychotic profile," he said. Strelzin said he could not comment on whether the victims had been bludgeoned. For now, little information has been drawn from the remains. Forensic analysts have determined that the woman was between 23 and 32 years old. She had curly, light-brown hair and, like the children, was either white or Native American. She was about 5-foot-5. The child found with her was a girl between 5 and 10 years old. The girl stood about 4-foot-3 and had light-brown hair and ears pierced twice. The second pair of bodies were those of two children who appear to be younger. Investigators believe they are female, but the children were too young to know for sure. "You can't get sex from skeletal morphology when they're that young," said Kim Fallon, a forensic investigator at the state medical examiner's office. "They have traits that suggest they're female, but that's not definite." One of those children was between 4 and 8 years old and stood about 3-foot-8. She had light-brown hair and a noticeable overbite. The other child was between 1 and 3 years old. She stood about 2-foot-5 and had long, blond hair. The initial DNA tests showed that the woman could be the mother of the child found with her and of the youngest child. Investigators said she is not the mother of the child who was between 4 and 8 years old. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has produced images from the bone structure of the woman and the two children who might be hers. The case was reactivated a few years ago when Fallon learned about the four victims at a conference about missing persons and unidentified remains. "I couldn't believe when I heard about this case," she said. "That it's four of them from probably one event and three of them are children." Quadruple homicides are rare. In 1991, Concord resident James Colbert strangled his wife and three young daughters. The 1997 shooting rampage of Carl Drega killed two state troopers, a part-time judge and a newspaper editor in northern Colebrook. There are different theories about how four people could have disappeared as long as 30 years ago without ever being identified. The woman could have been a teenager who left home and had children without her family knowing, Fallon said. Or she and the children could be from the West Coast and brought here by a long-haul trucker, Strelzin said. Investigators ask that anyone with information contact Detective John Sonia or Lt. James White of the State Police Major Crime Unit at 271-2663. http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dl...13/0/REPOSITORY |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jan 5 2010, 04:46 PM Post #7 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Oct 4 2011, 07:18 PM Post #8 |
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Unidentified Female # Date of Discovery: November 10, 1985 # Location of Discovery: Allenstown, Merrimack County, New Hampshire # Estimated Date of Death: 1978 to 1985 # State of Remains: Partial Skeletal Remains # Cause of Death: Homicide Physical Description ** Listed information is approximate # Estimated Age: 5-10 years # Estimated Date of Birth: 1968 to 1970 # Race: Caucasian # Gender: Female # Height: 4'3 estimated # Weight: Unknown # Hair Color: Dark blonde or light brown, fine hair # Eye Color: Unknown # Distinguishing Marks/Features: Ears were each pierced two times. # Dentals: Available (Charting and X-Rays) # Fingerprints: Not available # DNA: Not available Clothing & Personal Items # Clothing: None # Jewelry: None # Additional Personal Items: None Case History On November 10, 1985, a hunter discovered the skeletal remains of an adult female and one female child in a 55-gallon drum. The remains were located off of Everwood Drive, Bear Brook State Park, Allenstown, New Hampshire. On May 9, 2000, the skeletal remains of two additional female children were recovered also in a 55-gallon drum, approximately 100 yards from the original discovery. DNA testing confirmed that two of the children were biologically related to the adult female. All four victims may be biologically linked, and that all four victims had been deceased for the same length of time. Investigating Agency(s) If you have any information about this case please contact; # Agency Name: New Hampshire Medical Examiner # Agency Contact Person: Kim Fallon # Agency Phone Number: 603-271-1235 # Local Case Number: 85-1051 # NamUs Case Number: NamUs UP #2173 # NCMEC Case Number: NCMU1100629 http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/800ufnh.html |
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