GUILTY NH - Kelly Robarge, 42, Charlestown, 27 Jun 2013

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So LE found her? Was this one an organized search? So many victims are not found, or found months or years later. Wondering how they knew where to search.
 
Rest in Peace Kelly, so very sorry

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http://www.vnews.com/news/14233375-95/story.html

Jury selection in the upcoming murder trial of a Charlestown man has been scheduled to begin the week of Jan. 5.

James Robarge is charged with both first- and second-degree murder in the 2013 death of his estranged wife, Kelly Robarge. He has been held without bail since his arrest in connection with her death on July 8, 2013, which came two days after Kelly’s body was discovered in a wooded area in Unity. Police believe she was killed on June 27, 2013, the same day she filed for divorce.
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http://www.vnews.com/home/15096324-95/murder-trial-to-take-weeks

Sullivan County Superior Court Judge Brian Tucker told a packed courtroom of potential jurors on Monday that the murder trial of James Robarge, who is accused of killing his estranged wife, will begin no earlier than next week and probably last until the middle of February...

In his remarks to the first jury pool, Tucker read the two indictments against Robarge. He then spent several minutes reading a long list of potential witnesses from various law enforcement agencies, including state police in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine; the FBI; the state forensics laboratory; Fish and Game; the New Hampshire Medical Examiner’s Office, and more than 65 civilians, including Robarge’s two grown daughters. In total, the number of potential witnesses hovered around 200.
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http://www.benningtonbanner.com/state/ci_27314159/vermont-man-heads-trial-wifes-death-new-hampshire

Kelly Robarge texted a friend that she had just filed for divorce from her husband of 21 years. As she pulled into her driveway, she added: "He's here"...

Kelly Robarge's decomposing and animal-ravaged body was found nine days later in a remote area of Unity, about 10 miles from her home. The body was in such bad shape that a medical examiner couldn't say exactly how she died, calling it only "homicidal violence"...

Jurors will visit Kelly Robarge's home Wednesday and testimony will begin Thursday... Superior Court Judge Brian Tucker ruled last week that the jury can see text messages and pictures of wounds on James Robarge's body — including a large scratch through a tattoo that reads "Love Dies Slowly."
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http://www.vnews.com/home/15229218-95/jury-visits-murder-scene-in-charlestown-slaying

The trial of James Robarge, accused of killing his estranged wife, began in Sullivan County Superior Court this morning, where 15 jurors piled onto a bus to visit key locations in the case.

Kelly Robarge, a Charlestown resident, was discovered dead in a wooded area off of Britton Road in Unity more than a week after she went missing in June 2013... Jurors visited that location and two others today, including the Robarge home in Charlestown.
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This murder took place in my town. I know Kelly ' s daughters. Now that the trail has started, watching the jurors be taken up to the house, the crime scene is terrible reminder of this horrible crime. The abuse she underwent from James for years was well known in the community. I hope justice is served for Kelly!
 
http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/...cle_13823067-fd12-5259-9458-b9e74a114652.html

Pine trees shelter a cross and marble headstone off Britton Road in Unity, marking the place where Kelly Robarge’s body was found..The memorial is roughly 200 yards from a trailhead that is accessed from Britton Road. The trailhead is about a 20-minute drive from Kelly Robarge’s former home at 124 Happy Acres Road in Charlestown.

The Unity and Charlestown sites were two of the places a Sullivan County Superior Court jury visited Wednesday in the murder trial of Kelly Robarge’s husband...

After spending more than an hour at the Happy Acres Road property, jurors continued on to a remote section of Unity. Their second stop was at the trailhead on Britton Road where prosecutors allege Robarge went to dispose of his wife’s body. Attorneys asked jurors at that location to try to get a sense of the terrain, the width of the trail and the homes, or lack thereof, in the vicinity.
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http://www.concordmonitor.com/home/...n-accused-of-murder-told-friend-hed-kill-wife

A Vermont man accused of murdering his wife the day she filed for divorce told a friend weeks earlier that he would kill her, a prosecutor said during opening statements yesterday, and a witness described the gruesome condition of her body when it was discovered in the woods.

A lawyer for James Robarge, 45, assured the Sullivan County Superior Court jury his client never killed 42-year-old Kelly Robarge and promised he would take the stand and tell them that...

Fenton told them the entryway to Kelly Robarge’s home contained “countless” blood splatters and that James Robarge’s disabled car, found several miles from where her body was discovered, had a bloodstained trunk and bloodstained items outside it, including a speaker cord.
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http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/...15/01/16/new-hampshire-murder-trial/21881211/

Ciera Robarge testified Friday that she saw her mother sleeping in her bedroom as she was getting ready to leave for a 6 a.m. shift at a Wal-Mart store. The 21-year-old woman said she did not communicate with her mother the day she disappeared, but received texts from her father that afternoon. Ciera Robarge testified he asked what time she got off work in one text and asked where her mother was in another.

When she got home from work, she said, her mother was not there but her purse and car keys were on the kitchen table, a switch plate by the front door was broken and a sizeable chunk of the staircase handrail was missing. She said there also was bloody water in the toilet bowl and, in court, she identified a bloody blanket found alongside James Robarge's disabled car that night as one her mother kept on the back of the couch.

Other testimony Friday focused on what prosecutors say were the last hours of Kelly Robarge's life...
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Such a sad and disturbing case. It's just so unimaginable that anyone especially a grandparent (or any human being at that) could/would commit such a horrific act of extreme violence against anyone never mind the childs grandmother right in front of him! The poor children, lost both their parents.
 
http://www.sentinelsource.com/defen...cle_11b8deb0-dd13-5514-b701-4da54fd161be.html

The defense had its chance Thursday to challenge a N.H. State Police detective about the approach his team took to seizing evidence at key sites in the case against a Vermont man accused of killing his wife...

In the hours after Kelly Robarge was reported missing, a Claremont police officer found her husband walking on 2nd N.H. Turnpike near the Claremont/Unity border. James Robarge told police his car had broken down while he was out looking for her, according to court documents. Police say he had bloodstains on his white sneakers and shorts and that his breath smelled of beer...

During the last hour of Thursday's court session, Maine State Police Detective Lenny Bolton took the stand. He was in charge of cellphone analysis in the case against James Robarge. That included tracking the location of Kelly and James Robarge's cellphones, in addition to any text messages or phone calls they made on the day of Kelly's disappearance.
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I hope justice is served for Kelly. There is no doubt to anyone that her husband killed her. He was always volatile and abusive. I feel so incredibly sad for their 2 daughters who have now lost both parents. One taken way too soon at the hands of the and in front of one of the daughters young son! Each day as I drive by the road to the house Kelly was killed in, I can't help but to think of her and her family!
 
http://www.vnews.com/news/15539794-95/medical-examiner-testifies-at-trial

Deputy State Medical Examiner Jennie Duval testified on Wednesday that injuries seen on a man accused of murdering his wife were consistent with someone who had been scratched and grabbed during a physical confrontation.

Duval, who examined photographs of marks on James Robarge that were taken by police on June 28, also said an abrasion on Robarge’s left index finger and bruises on his shoulders were fresh... meaning they were less than two days old and were “consistent” with a victim fighting back against an assailant. Duval said Robarge had other marks on his body that were fresh, including a long scratch on his torso...

Ostrowski testified that a piece of speaker wire found in the turnoff — which contained Kelly Robarge’s blood — had been torn out of Robarge’s car and that a metal fragment found on a trail that led to Kelly Robarge’s remains matched the Jetta’s oil pan. He said one particular fragment seemed to fit into a hole in the oil pan, and that deep gouges in both the fragment and the pan lined up.
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http://www.benningtonbanner.com/sta...cused-killing-wife-maintains-his-innocence-at

James Robarge took the stand to defend himself against a first-degree murder charge and an alternate charge of second-degree murder...

The 45-year-old Robarge told jurors about his search for his estranged wife around Claremont and Unity after he said he discovered her missing and their grandson alone in the home he and his wife once shared...

Robarge's account Thursday contradicted testimony from Lori Laird, a close friend of his wife's, who said Kelly Robarge texted her that James Robarge was at her house when she returned home from filing for divorce June 27, 2013.
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