FBI Searching Former Home of NH Woman Not Seen Since 1981

MANCHESTER, NH — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has come to New Hampshire to help local officials search for forensic evidence in a nearly four decades old missing persons case, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. Jeffery Strelzin, a senior assistant attorney general, chief of the homicide unit for the NH AG, stated that investigators have blocked off a section of Hayward Street in Manchester, from Cyprus Street to Foster Avenue, in an effort to find clues into the disappearance of Denise Beaudin.

Beaudin was 23 when she was last seen at a dinner in Goffstown in November 1981 with family, her live-in boyfriend, Robert “Bob” Evans, 27, and her infant daughter, who is now an adult. The case has garnered new attention after investigators stated last month that they had received new evidence to indicate that Beaudin’s disappearance was officially a missing persons case.

At the time, according to her family, the couple was having financial difficulties. When they visited the residence about a week after the dinner, they found that no one was home, according to investigators.

Jeffrey Hastings of Frame of Mind Photography and the Manchester Information Facebook site stated that investigators have a large tent set up in the backyard.

"At one point, a loud bang came from the basement and then the sound of power tools could be heard operating in the same area," he noted. "Personnel could be seen coming and going from the back porch in to the house wearing protective suits and breathing filtration masks."

Hastings has more pictures online.

The street closure is being issued to accommodate equipment and personnel that is needed for the search.

“The search could last several days,” Strelzin noted in the statement.

Credit: Jeffrey Hastings/Frame of Mind Photography FrameofMindPhoto.com.