Cold Cases in New Hampshire
ColdCaseIndex documents 9 cases in New Hampshire, dated 1971 to 2021. 4 are recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Katherine Ann Alston (Bedford Jane Doe) (1971) and the most recent is Elijah Lewis (2021).
- Unsolved 4 (44%)
- Charges or trial pending 1 (11%)
- Solved or convicted 3 (33%)
- Closed without conviction 1 (11%)
Homicide clearance in New Hampshire, 1965 to 2024
A homicide is "cleared" when police make an arrest or close it by exceptional means, so an uncleared case is not always an unsolved one. Source: Murder Accountability Project analysis of FBI Uniform Crime Report data, as published by Project: Cold Case. These are statewide totals and are separate from the ColdCaseIndex entries listed below.
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Elijah Lewis
Five-year-old Elijah Lewis of Merrimack, New Hampshire, was reported missing on October 14, 2021, and his remains were found nine days later in woods in Abington, Massachusetts.
Harmony Montgomery
Five-year-old Harmony Montgomery is believed to have died in Manchester, New Hampshire, in December 2019 but was not reported missing until late 2021; her remains have not been found.
Abigail Hernandez
Fourteen-year-old Abby Hernandez disappeared while walking home from school in Conway, New Hampshire. She reappeared nearly nine months later, having been held captive by Nathaniel Kibby. Kibby was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Maura Murray
UMass Amherst student Maura Murray crashed her car on a remote road in New Hampshire and vanished before help arrived. A witness offered assistance but she declined.
Pamela Smart (case)
Gregg Smart, 24, was shot dead in his Derry, New Hampshire, condominium on May 1, 1990. The gunman, 15-year-old William Flynn, was a student at the school where Smart's wife Pamela worked.
Bear Brook Murders (Allenstown Four)
In 1985 and 2000, the remains of a woman and three young girls were found in barrels near Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire; all four had died of blunt force trauma.
Tammy Lynn Belanger
Eight-year-old Tammy Belanger vanished while walking to school in Exeter, New Hampshire, in November 1984. Police long suspected a convicted sex offender of abducting and killing her, but no body or physical evidence was ever…
The Connecticut River Valley Killer
An unidentified serial killer is believed to have stabbed to death at least seven women along the New Hampshire–Vermont border near Interstate 91 between 1978 and 1988.
Katherine Ann Alston (Bedford Jane Doe)
On October 6, 1971, the decomposing body of a young woman was found off a logging road in a wooded area of Bedford, New Hampshire.