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Did RH go to college? Do we know where?

Lots of good ideas here and I don't think we can rule anything in or out based on the evidence we have. It truly is baffling. Where are you, Caleb?

A bullet striking a tree can leave quite a scar in the bark, depending on the kind of tree and how thick its bark is. If it's fresh it can be quite visible. The outer bark might be peeled back revealing inner bark of a different color than the outer bark, for instance, or the wound might ooze sap.

Oh, I'm sure we stuck out as "tourists" and "outsiders" despite NH plates. But driving through Newport looking for a tourist restaurant, we would have just been "another bunch of tourists." If you had asked right away, somebody might have remembered our elderly Toyota or our cute daughter, but...

We were DEC too. Merrimack and later Spit Brook Road. I heard about some murders and killers, but I don't recall hearing about the Connecticut Valley killer until much later.

If you read through the missing persons threads here, you'll see a lot of cases as you say, but also case after case where family insists they reported their loved one missing and LE doesn't have a record. Or it's just a line in a police log, or it was in a state where reports of runaway minors...

A lot of it probably depends on whether they can make a firm identification. If it's an unidentified homeless person, for instance, we're likely to hear more than if it is someone connected to a criminal investigation. Generally it seems like information doesn't get released before the tox screen.

Slightly different perspective: we vacationed in the Newport-Claremont-Sunapee area several times in the mid-80s. We were a young family working in the computer industry in Nashua; it was close enough and cheap enough to let us take a long weekend a couple of times each summer without breaking...

That article does confirm that the building has been torn down.

The sketch does resemble RH, especially a younger RH, but Long Island to the upper Connecticut River Valley is quite a haul. Though lots of New Yorkers do travel up I-91 for recreational and vacation opportunities. Do you know if RH is a skier or hiker? I haven't followed his case very closely.

I don't know about in that area, but around here there are only a handful of ATMs that will let you withdraw more than about $120-$150. The limit is just to keep the machines from running out of money. You'd have to go to the ATM at a bank.

I dunno. If it's a neighborhood station, it's probably not that surprising. I know if I left my car at the Mobil station near us, it probably wouldn't be more than an hour before more than one of my neighbors spotted it and called us about it.

I don't think the time gap is an issue for Susan Lane--there's plenty of evidence she was having a mental health crisis and could easily have been living on the street for a year or two. The tattoos give me pause, however, though perhaps her skin had decomposed to where ink wasn't visible...

Usually "19-99" as an age estimate means they couldn't determine anything more about the age than "adult." Usually that's because the remains are weathered or scattered or something, but that doesn't sound like the case here.

Yeah, but the logic that reinforces the fraud is exactly what you said. "I'll leave a shoe because they know I wouldn't walk that far in one shoe." And if he was staging it to look like murder, he could have slipped on another shoe or a slipper or something to protect him while he was walking...