Owner of car sought in investigation of New Hampshire couple’s murder

Thursday, June 02 2022
ABC News Radio

(Harmony, N.H.) — New Hampshire police investigating the unsolved shooting deaths of a retired few stated Thursday that they are looking to talk to the owner or operator of a auto that was parked near a mountaineering path wherever the bodies of the victims have been learned in April.

New Hampshire Lawyer Normal John M. Formella and Harmony Police Chief Bradley Osgood released pictures of a dim environmentally friendly 2006 to 2012 Toyota RAV4 that was parked close to the March Loop trailhead in Concord on April 18, the working day Stephen Reid, 67, and his wife, Djeswende “Wendy” Reid, 66, were being very last observed alive.

Authorities emphasized that the man or woman who owns or was driving the car is not a suspect in the circumstance, but investigators are keen to communicate to them about what they may have observed on the path that day.

The Marsh Loop path is aspect of the Damaged Ground Trails method where the bodies of the pair were being discovered on April 21, a day soon after relatives described them lacking, law enforcement explained.

The FBI has joined the investigation and a $33,500 reward is becoming supplied for information that potential customers to the arrest and indictment of the human being or individuals liable for the killings.

Autopsies exposed the Reids have been each shot many occasions.

The development will come about three months immediately after authorities released a sketch of a guy authorities explained as a human being of interest. The person was noticed in the vicinity of where the bodies were discovered the day the Reids went missing, officers reported.

A spokesperson for the New Hampshire Department of Justice, which unveiled the sketch, informed ABC Information Thursday that the human being of interest has not been located.

Throughout a news convention on Thursday afternoon, Formella stated there is no relationship among the person of interest and the auto becoming sought in the circumstance. The particular person of fascination is not at this time a suspect in the situation, he mentioned.

The Reids still left their home in the Alton Woods condominium advanced in Concord close to 2:22 p.m. on April 18 and went for a stroll in the Broken Floor Trails region, Formella and Osgood explained in their joint assertion on Thursday.

The pair was reported missing on April 20 when Stephen Reid unsuccessful to exhibit up at a planned celebration, authorities said. Their bodies have been found out a working day later on, officials mentioned.

Homicide investigators and the couple’s little ones, Lindsay and Brian Reid, have requested the public to report any information that could potentially help crack the situation.

The couple’s loved ones produced a statement right after the murders, describing Stephen and Wendy Reid as soulmates who traveled the globe and shared a “mutual like of experience and fitness.”

The Reids moved to Harmony about 3 decades back when Stephen Reid, who grew up there, retired from a extra than 30-year profession as an international advancement professional working on humanitarian projects all around the globe by USAID, their relatives explained. The couple met when Wendy Reid, who was from West Africa, was researching in Washington, D.C., on an athletic scholarship, the household claimed.

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