Officials Release New Sketches, Info on Allenstown Cold Case

The four bodies of a woman and three girls were found in Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. One barrel as found in 1985 and another was found in 2000. It is believed the victims were killed between 1980 and 1984. She was most likely the mother of the oldest and youngest child, but could have been a sibling, maternal aunt or cousin of the two.

Investigators hope the information and lifelike digital images of the woman and three girls will help them identify the bodies. The woman and oldest child show signs of blunt-force trauma, and investigators haven’t released the cause of death for the two younger children.

“At this point in time we are nearly at our full -if not, we are at the final line- of what science can do to help us based upon their remains to identify where they came from and who they were”, said Agati.

The middle child, in contrast, most likely spent her childhood further inland in the region near the Dakotas and western Nebraska. The other girl was not related to the other victims and was most likely born and lived farther north and as far west as Minnesota.

Investigators say based on hair, bone and dental testing, it appears the woman and all the children lived in the northeast corridor of the United States in the last two weeks to three months of their lives. But the remains do not provide a complete DNA profile, so authorities have not been able to run it against DNA profiles of sex offenders.

On Tuesday morning, Allenstown Police Chief Paul Paquette heard from a woman with information about a missing person, after reading morning news accounts about the upcoming news conference.