New HampshireDepartment of JusticeOffice of the Attorney General

Cold Case Unit

The Cold Case Unit was organized in the Fall of 2009 to combine the experience of the Attorney General's Office, the Major Crime Unit, and a city detective. The Unit is staffed with a prosecutor and three detectives who will focus on reviewing unsolved homicides, unresolved suspicious deaths, and missing person cases in which foul play is suspected in the person's disappearance. About the Unit…

Annual Reports

Help us bring justice to the families of these victims…

  • Debra HornDebra Horn
    Unsolved Homicide
    Year: 1969
    Town: Sandown    Debra Horn was eleven years old when she disappeared from her home in Allenstown, NH on January 29, 1969.
  • Kenneth JacheKenneth Jache
    Unsolved Homicide
    Year: 1979
    Town: Weare    On October 14, 1979 a burned body was discovered in a severely fire damaged Subaru station wagon located in a gravel pit off from Gould Road in South Weare, NH.
  • Laura KemptonLaura Kempton
    Unsolved Homicide
    Year: 1981
    Town: Portsmouth    On Monday, September 28, 1981 at 9:30 a.m., the body of Laura Kempton, age 23, was found murdered in her apartment located at 20 Chapel Street in Portsmouth, NH.

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New Hampshire Department of Justice
33 Capitol Street | Concord, NH | 03301
Telephone: 603-271-3658