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February 10. 2013 12:13AM

Other remains point to possible homicides

By NANCY WEST
New Hampshire Sunday News

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Besides the four Allenstown murder victims, there are at least three other sets of human remains in New Hampshire that would be investigated as homicides if investigators could find a way to identify them, including one case in which just two toes were found.

There could also be more homicides among the assorted skulls and bones that are kept at the State Police Forensic Laboratory and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, but there is too little information available to identify them or determine how they died, according to Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin, chief of the state's homicide unit.

Some were probably unearthed from washed-out graves, he said.

"Some of those things are probably historical remains," Strelzin said regarding the list of human remains kept by the state. "In the past, there were no strict rules regulating burial. Some people were buried on their property."

But two sets of remains and two human toes were likely homicides, he said.

In December, Salem police exhumed the body of one of them - an unidentified man whose decomposing remains were found on Aug. 7, 1969, between Exits 1 and 2 along Interstate 93 in Salem.

The man had been shot four times. Police hope to obtain DNA samples to help identify him.

Strelzin said a facial reconstruction will be completed, as well, to see whether anyone in the public remembers him.

According to the State Police Cold Case Unit website, the man was between 28 and 40 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall and about 225 pounds.

On Oct. 6, 1971, a woman's remains were found in a wooded area at the end of Kilton Road near the Route 101 Bypass in Bedford, according to the website. That investigation has been dormant, Strelzin said.

The woman was white, between 25 and 35 years old and between 5 feet 1 inch and 5 feet 4 inches tall. She was wearing a maroon pullover blouse with lace at the neck, short hip-hugger dungaree-type shorts, and Size 7 sandals, the website said. The manner of death has not been determined, but she likely met foul play.

Strelzin said two toes from one man discovered in 2006 near Sheila LaBarre's Epping horse farm did not match either of the two men she was convicted of killing.

There have been no good leads on them, he said.

But because of where and when they were found, it is likely evidence of another murder victim, Strelzin said.

LaBarre is serving two life sentences for killing Kenneth Countie, 24, of Wilmington, Mass., and Michael Deloge, 38, of Portsmouth.

Unidentified human remains in New Hampshire
The following unidentified human remains are stored at the State Police Forensic Laboratory or the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Concord. Some are being investigated as unsolved homicides. Others are believed to be unearthed from old burial grounds. Some are so old, no one knows where they were found, or how they came into the state's possession.
YEAR	What was found	Location
1969	Decomposing male Found off I-93 between exits 1 and 2, Shot four times. Homicide	Salem
1971	Decomposing female Found near Route 101 bypass. Foul play suspected.	Bedford
1985	Decomposing adult female, (case number 85-1050) Found near barrel w/ 85-1051. Homicide	Allenstown
1985	Decomposing female child, (case number 85-1051) Found near barrel w/ 85-1050. Homicide	Allenstown
2000	Skeletal remains of female child (case number 103-00) Found in barrel w/ 104-00. Suspected homicide	Allenstown
2000	Skeletal remains of female child, (case number 104-00) Found in barrel w/ 103-00. Suspected homicide	Allenstown
1992	Lower leg and various foot bones Found in Dan Hole Pond	Ossipee
1992	Skull w/ 1 tooth Found 100 ft. from cemetery, thought to be female, about 50 years old at death	Berlin (gully by cemetery)
1994	Skull and 6 teeth Wisdom teeth present but never descended; kept as souvenir; seized with warrant, examined by forensic anthropologist; some evidence of burial	Seabrook (residence)
1999	Portion of skull	Newfields
2006	Two toes belonging to unidentified man Found near convicted killer Sheila LaBarre's horse farm, possible homicide	Epping
Unknown	Skull (very weathered) and 6 teeth	Unknown
Unknown	Skull cap bones very old	Tamworth
Unknown	3 long bones, 3 bone fragments Long bones very small in stature; doll in box appears very old-fashioned, all quite dirty suggesting an old burial	Unknown
Unknown	Skullcap; skull appears weathered but fairly clean	Unknown
Unknown	Skullcap - old, dirty, weathered	Unknown
Unknown	Skull and one tooth on left portion of upper jaw	Unknown
Source: Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the Attorney General's Office.