NH NH - Patricia Wood, 3/4, Swanzey, 1976

This comes from the 2017 Cold case unit status report: https://www.doj.nh.gov/criminal/cold-case/documents/2017-status-report.pdf
In the fall of 2017, CCU detectives completed a search on a property in Swanzey, NH in the hopes of finding the remains of a missing child, Patty Wood. Patty lived with her father and step-mother, John and Judith Wood, in Swanzey during the mid-1970s. Sometime around 1976, Patty disappeared. Her absence was not noticed by authorities until 1987, as her father and stepmother told area residents that Patty was living out of state with her mother. This was not true. The day that the police began asking the Wood’s about Patty’s whereabouts, the Woods committed suicide. In 1987, State Police officials dug an area of the Wood property looking for Patty, but did not find her. In 2015, CCU personnel began exploring the possibility that Patty may be buried on the property (in a location separate from the 1987 search) or that perhaps she was on an adjoining property where the family had also lived. The CCU once again enlisted the help of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Through this relationship, cadaver dogs and ground penetrating radar (GPR) were utilized in searching these properties in June, 2017. The dogs did not show any interest in the adjoining property, but they did identify an area of the 1987 Wood family lot as worthy of potential follow-up. This area corresponded with anomalies shown on the GPR data of the 1987 Wood family lot, and is approximately 20 yards from where investigators dug in 1987. The CCU team returned to the property in October of 2017, and conducted a two-day search where the area in question was dug and sifted for anything of evidentiary value. This effort was made possible with assistance from the New Hampshire Department of Cultural Resources, who provided anthropological expertise as the digging was underway. Sadly, Patty’s remains were not recovered. CCU detectives have insured that family DNA samples are available for comparison in the event that Patty’s remains are located in the future.
 

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