What happen to Patricia Ann Wood???

Every state in America has a missing person case and sometimes the police got nothing to work with in the case. There been times where the missing person doesn’t get reported missing till years later because the family start looking for them or they find out some info that makes the worry. The reason why someone can go missing without the family not looking for them because they may had a falling out or the family just think they don’t want to be found. That for case with teens and adults but what happens if it a child?? That’s when the foul play comes to mind or even the child run away from home but most of time the kids would come back but not all the time. Also you get cases where it the parents are the ones who made their child  disappear but kidnapping them or sometimes killing them. The case of Patricia Ann Wood is one case where truth of what happens to her may never be known .

The case first came to light in 1987 when police would told about a family dark secret that when back twelve years. The story was about Patricia Ann Wood, A Four-year girl who when missing in 1972 and no one in her family reported her missing to the police. Patricia Ann Wood was born on Oct. 12, 1972, in South Carolina her dad was John Wood and soon her mom gives full custody of Patricia to John Wood. Patrica moves with her dad to live with him and his new family that included his wife Judith Wood and his step kids in Swanzey NH. In her know, four years of life would fill with reported abuse with her getting treated frequently between 1972 and 1974 for a variety of injuries. On April 1974, Patricia ended up at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover with brain swelling and convulsions and lapsed briefly into a coma. The doctors reported the suspected abuse to the state and Patrica was put into foster care for four months. Patrica was soon giving back to her dad and step and the state's child welfare officials closed the case despite concerns voiced by doctors.

In 1976 Patrica just disappear with no one asking or ever looking into what happen to her but John and  Judith Wood had many stories on what happen to her.  When they would ask by friends and family John Wood and Judith Wood say Patricia was living her mother. Than Patrica's mom ask the Woods where she was because she want to see her daughter John Wood and Judith Wood told her that Patrica was killed in a car accident and Patrica's mother never look into it. As the years when by Patricia Ann Wood was just forgot about and it was like she had  never existed. Twelve years later the case when one of Patricia's step step  sidings told the police on what happen and what his parents told him over the years. In 1987 police would that Patricia was killed by her dad and her step mother and was killed inside a bathtub. Soon the police start to looking into the case and than the Investigators started to talk to the parents and  others like the woods' other kids in this case.

As the Investigator talk to the children of the woods they would told how Patrica was who was always being disciplined by her dad and step mother. When the police when to talk to the parents only Judith  was home and she  became very defensive. and Judith never really answered the question: Where's Patty. The police hope they could talk to both Judith and John the next day but the hopes would soon crushed because the Woods killed themselves the next day. Investigators search and dig up the backyard of the woods'  property in hopes of finding Patrica's remains but nothing was found. Witnesses came forwards saying they saw the Woods in the Gilsum-Alstead area where there's some old mines the night before they killed themselves. In Judith and John woods' obituaries made only references to their other kids but no references to Patrica was made. Over the years the case has bee moved to the state's cold cases unit but unlike other New Hampshire's cold cases like Maura Murray, Patrick Merrill, Carrie Moss and Luella Blakeslee there a single file folder for the Patricia Ann Wood's case. The New Hampshire's Cold cases unit have say this case may never truly be solved but hope one day they could find her remains to give Patrica a decent burial.


My Take
In this case it clear what happen to Patricia Ann Wood but with very little evidences to work with in this case to proof it. The NH's cold cases unit is trying there's best with what they're giving for evidences and no body they can never called the case solved. There's maybe a little hope that she could be alive because she was sold or left somewhere and she doesn't  remember her past.  
Hope one day Patrica will be found

Connecticut River Valley Killer

Connecticut River Valley Killer.

In the state of New Hampshire there's a small little know history with serial killers inside of the state but not as talked about. The two biggest histories of serial killers in New Hampshire would the birthplace of HH Holmes and where Chris Wilder was killed when members of the New Hampshire State Police try to arrest him. Also, Rodney Alcala, The Dating Game killer lived and worked in New Hampshire but outside of that it been rare for New Hampshire to see the word "Serial killer" in the headline but it has happened before. In more recent news the state had serial killers making the news both with the state’s cold cases and at least one active serial killer that was captured. Four New Hampshire’s cold cases have been tied to serial killers with the first one being in 1998 when John Edward Brewer was charged in the 1987 case of Michele LaFond in Dublin, N.H.who also was tied to an FL murder. Then in 2013 Craig Conkey, a double murder from Massachusetts was charged in the death of Theresa Reed of Plymouth in 199 that ended in a guilty plea. Then in 2014 the case of Judith Whitney, of Amherst, MA who was found dead in Winchester her case was tied to dead murder Edward Mayrand. In 2017 the bear brook murders and the missing person case of Denise Beaudin, would be tied to Terrence Peder Rasmussen who dies in a CA Jail. In 2006 one of the state's last know serial killer was Sheila LaBarre who was found guilty of killing two men but also had one Victim who was never ID.

One case that has yet to be solve that police think could be the works of a serial killer is the Connecticut River Valley Killer. From 1978 to 1987 up to seven women would kill both in New Hampshire and Vermont and at least one lone survivor. It started on October 24, 1978, when Cathy Millican was bird watching at the Chandler Brook Wetland Preserve in New London, New Hampshire when missing. The next day Cathy Millican was found stab to death with over twenty-nine stab wounds and was found not far from where she was last seen. Than On July 25, 1981, University of Vermont 37-year-old Mary Elizabeth Critchley was hitchhiking to Waterbury, Vermont but disappeared by I93 that was near the Massachusetts-Vermont border. Mary Elizabeth Critchley's body was found on On August 9, 1981, in Unity, New Hampshire no determine a cause of death could be found. Three years later on May 30, 1984, 16-year-old Bernice Courtemanche was last seen by her boyfriend's mother in Claremont New Hampshire when she when to see her boyfriend in Newport NH. She didn’t make it to her destination and was reported missing and her body was not found until two years later it was found in Newport NH and like the last two victims, She was stabbed to death. The fourth victim came on July 20, 1984, when Ellen Fried last seen talking on a payphone outside of a convenience store in Claremont NH. As she was talking to her sister on the payphone Ellen Fried say there was a strange car that was driving back and forth in the area. Fried's body was found by the Sugar River in the Kelleyville area of Newport, NH on September 19, 1985. The autopsy couldn't found the cause of death of Ellen Fried but found evidence of multiple stab wounds. Over the years there would more victims but also there was one survivor in this case who attacks match the other cases. Eva Morse who was out hitchhiking by the border of Claremont and Charlestown NH on Route 12..Eva Morse 's body was found a year later in Unity, New Hampshire and 500 feet from where Mary Elizabeth Critchley was found. Like with the other murder victims Eva Morse dies from stab wounds and had ones to her neck. Than all most a year later on April 15, 1986, Lynda Moore was at her home in Saxtons River, Vermont doing yard works but when her husband came home to find her dead from multiple stab wounds. A number of witnesses report seeing a man between 20 and 25 years old, clean shaven, with a somewhat round face, and wearing dark-rimmed glasses in the area. On On January 10, 1987, Barbara Agnew was returning from a skiing trip with her friends in Stratton, Vermont later that day Agnew's green BMW was found at a rest stop in Hartford, Vermont. Inside of Agnew's car, there was blood on the steering wheel and the car’s door was cracked but Agnew was nowhere to be found All mos three months on March 28, 1987, Barbara Agnew's body was found in Hartland, Vermont like with all of the victims She dies from multiple stab wounds.

The last know attack came on August 6, 1988 when Jane Boroski was attacked at a closed convenience store in West Swanzey. Unlike the past attacks Jane Boroski survived her attack and give police some major detail on the man who attacked. One major detail was the man who attacked her drove a Jeep Wagoneer and also give description on what her attacker look like. An sketch was made and it the most use image for the CT Valley case and police hoped they could gain some major leads in the case with the details given to them by Jane Boroski. The New Hampshire State Police look at Jeep Wagoneer that would registered in by New Hampshire and Massachusetts but not leads would found for it. The case soon made the TV show unsolved mysteries that give the police one lead in the case to fellow. An Idaho law enforcement officer called the show saying that he recognize the man in the sketch as a person who was being held in a Idaho prison. The Police did fellow up on the lead but it not know where it when.

Over the years the police have looked at many possible suspects in this case without much luck calling one a prime suspect. One suspect that has been looked at is Delbert Tallman who was charged but acquitted of a similar murder around the same time the CT valley killer was active and also one of the Possible CT Valley killer’s victim was found. Tallman has lived in Bellows Falls, Springfield, and Windsor, Vermont, as well as Claremont, New Hampshire, the epicenter of most of the murders. An other suspect was Gary Westover from Grafton, New Hampshire who confession on his deathbed being part of the murder of Barbara Agnew. Westover Say him and group of his friends kidnaped and killed Barbara Agnew why out partying it unknown how far the lead.Westover was wheelchair bound and it made it unlikely he had any ties any of other CT valley murders. One suspect who has gain the most attention from the likes of the media and the internet is Michael Nicholaou an Vietnam veteran who had a long history of violence.The name Michael Nicholaou first came about when a Private investigator was hired in 2001 by the mother of Michelle Marie Ashley to find her daughter. Michelle Marie Ashley was lasr seen on December 1988, along with her two children and with her common-law husband, Michael Nicholaou. Why researching Michael Nicholaou the Private investigator found out his violence histroy like once facing murder charges in the miltary but the charges would dropped, As the private Investigator was looking for Michelle Ashley the PI found Michael Nicholaou living in Georgia by using Nicholaou's contact information with some cursory Internet research. As Private investigator talk to Nicholaou he denied knowing anything about the family's whereabouts but soon say Michelle Ashley run off and abandon her children. The Private investigator soon found Michelle Ashley's children and they would safe.By 2005 Nicholaou' had a second wife and so she left him and escape to her sister's house in Tampa, Florida but on New year's eve Nicholaou killed his wife,her daughter than himself.

The Private investigator started to do more research on Nicholaou and started trying to tie him to the CT Valley killer. She starts to build a case that could proof Nicholaou was tied to the Connecticut River Valley killings. Michael Nicholaou was living in Holyoke, Massachusetts around the the killings. Also Nicholaou drove a Jeep Wagoneer like the man who attacked Jane Boroski  and than Jane Boroski ID him as the man who attacked her. The tip made it to the media it soon became the Nicholau was the CT Valley killer and still get covered like. The PI also has say that Micharl Nicholau could be ties to the Colonial Parkway Killer, the Route 29 Stalker, the Blue Ridge Parkway Rapist, and the murderer of Julianne Williams and Lollie Winans at Shenandoah National Park because he also live in  Virginia at the time of the crime. Over the years the idea of Michael Nicholaou being ties to the CT Valley killings has been put into  question and put into major  doubt . With first being police not able to make a case for it and a factor that Michael Nicholaou was living in Virginia  around the time of three of the murders. More  recently on the ID Network show Dark Minds Jane Boroski ID an other man as who attacked her. Outside of some Circumstantial evidence there's no real proof of Nicholaou  being Connecticut River Valley Killer

As of right now, both   Vermont and New Hampshire Police are still Investigating the cases in the states’ cold cases units. The case still pops up in the news like the police are looking at someone ’s possible ties to the case. One of newest name that got look at was Robert Durst because he had possible connections to a VT missing person case. As of now it still a cold case without any true prime suspects to be named.

My Take
The first time I heard about the Connecticut River Valley Killer was I was reading about John Edward Brewer getting  charged with the murder of Michele LaFond. The reson why because the NHSP did say he was getting look at in the Connecticut River Valley Killer.  I been fellowing case for sometime now and have some views on it. I think Michael Nicholaou was overblown and he was not the Valley killer and I think the PI overhyped her case. I see the private investigator in this case just like that ex police officer who worked on the Edward Edwards case and overhyped everything. Still there are folks who want to  believe the idea but there just nothing to proof Nicholaou is the killer. When it come to it if this case is ever solve will be by physical evidence and not by eye witnesses. This case could be a project for the M-Vac System and the GED search could work in it. I do think the killer was from New Hampshire and the rason why he stop is because he was in jail or move away. I think if the Suspect is ever named it will be someone who never appear on the radar

Danville's Devil Monkey

To kick it off I'm writing about a more recent cryptid case that happens in New Hampshire that is the Danville's Devil Monkey. The fall of 2001 the small New Hampshire town of Danville came under the national spotlight because when the town when to the monkeys. On Aug 21 2001Danville Fire chief David Kimball reports seeing what he could only describe as a monkey. The fire chief was driving down Kingston Rd in Danville and saw a  large reddish-brown coated primate type animal jump into the road. chief Kimball was not the only one to see the animal there also would eleven other people witnessed it on Kingston Rd. The creature soon jumps back into the woods and It was the start of two weeks of sightings of the beast and the national  Spotlight start to knock on the small town's door. The chief and other witnesses described the Danville beast as a Possible Humboldt’s wooly monkeys The type of monkeys is indigenous to the Amazon and not New Hampshire.

Soon other residents of Danville report seeing or hearing the creature all around the town of Danville. A married couple in Danville reported both seeing and hearing the monkey type beast in their own backyard. The Husband was first to have an encounter with the creature when he saw the animal in the backyard briefly. His Wife says she heard screaming coming from the woods the wife called the noise a sound that didn’t belong in her woods. Soon an encounter came when a local boy told his mom say a monster stole a cookie from him. The kid’s mother first was thinking her son was just talking about an imaginary playmate but than she heard about the monkey sightings going around in Danville it came to her that her son could be telling the truth. Soon Danville residents started to try to capture the animal before the cold winter and it would kill the animal. With folks thinking the monkey was an escaped pet or it was let go by it owner Because of the state’s laws on ownership of primates.  The residents try different ways in hopes to capture the monkey with the likes of the town animal control officer with the Humane Society uses female monkey's urine in the hope to lure the beast. Ever a local DJ try his hands at getting the monkey by dressing himself up in a gorilla costume. As hard as everyone tries no one had any luck in capturing the unknown animal not ever hunters who looking for the monkeys why armed with dart guns.


Soon National news started to pick up the story of a monkey in Danville and they started to make their way to Danville. NBC News Interview both eyewitnesses and town reysidents for a segment that was going to air on the Today show. The segment for the Today Show was scheduled and set to air but than the darkest day in america happen,The September 11 terrorist attacks. As fiast as the sightings got started they dead out and parents had less fear of letting their kids outside because it look like the beast was long gone. The town of Danville when back to normal with most thinking the monkey was killed by the cold weather and it just when away. As life when on in Danville and the beast started to fade from residents' minds  but it all came back in 2012. When an Haverhill, Massachusetts resident who was visting her parnets' home in Danville and was cooking in the backyard.  As she cooking she heard her dogs started to barking at something the woman look she saw a small white and brown monkey climbing a tree. Her family didn't live Danville in 2001 so she knew nothing on the town's history in 2001 monkeys sightings. The new monkey didn't fit the description of the last sightings back in 2001could a different monkey be on the run?? Unlike the past sightings this was the only sighting of the monkey in 2012 outside of reports of odd sounds coming from the woods.

different theories have been put out there about what the people of Danville NH would seeing and hearing in 2001 and also in 2012. The most common one as says in this post that the monkey was an escaped pet or it was let go by its owner. Also, another idea was that the witnesses mistaken identity nbthe monkey for a known animal like Bears, Fisher cats and Opossums. The theory that more out there is from the world of cryptids and what they had in Danville was a Devil Monkey. The Devil Monkey is a primate type cryptid that lives in North  America, with most sightings reported in the south. Reports have them looking like a  kangaroo mixed with a  baboon and they’re  extremely aggressive and will attack anyone who get too close . Unlike Bigfoot theDevil Monkeys are very rare and don’t get much coverage.

My Take
I  remember hearing this on WMUR-9 when it was happening and was curious about it but didn’t think much of it. Now reading about I remember something that Happens in Concord in 1999/2000 where there was a rush of monkeys sightings in the city. It didn’t make much media coverage unlike the  Danville case outside being mentioned in the local and state part of the Concord Monitor. I know someone that saw an odd creature that week he says look like a  baboon. Also heard at least one odd animal call with the Concord police on my police scanner that week. With the Danville case I could  Believe the escape pet theory but some witnesses had the monkey was Eight feet tall. At the size, it would be hard for anyone to hide a pet that size

Welcome

Welcome to Mysterious New Hampshire I created this blog for I can talk and share some of the Live Free or Die State. This blog will cover the likes of the state's cold cases, Paranormal, UFOs, cryptids, and urban legends. So you will see articles on the likes of Betty and Barney Hill, Wood devil sightings, Ocean born Mary, Bigfoot, and the CT Valley serial killer.  I will also have articles about cases that you had heard of and other articles will be about cases that are less know cases and you never heard of that. I did the research on all of the cases before I posted them and I will have my opinion and viewpoint too in the topic. There's is one case I like talks right here first before anything because it the elephant in the room. That case is the Bear brooks murders and I need to talk about it first because the case is of one of New Hampshire's greatest Mysteries.

I will not be doing much coverage on the Bear Brooks Murders because there all ready many sites and coverage for it and Also with the talks I been hearing about it look like the end could be coming in soon this case. I will to some write up some cases that are ties to it and to the killer(I'm not going use his name till I write a articles about him.




With that being say I Welcome you to my blog
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