Body Found In Grafton ID'd As Missing Florida Woman

CONCORD, NH — Human remains found in Grafton were positively identified as a Florida woman recently moved to North Woodstock and has been missing for more than a year. The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office and New Hampshire State Police reported on Wednesday night that remains found in the northwest New Hampshire town are Trish Haynes, 26, who was last seen in spring of last year. An autopsy determined that the cause of death is homicide.

"She was last seen in the Grafton/Danbury, New Hampshire area in May/June 2018," said Jeffrey Strelzin, director of the Division of Public Protection. "During the course of the investigation, human remains were discovered in Grafton, New Hampshire."

Since her disappearance, the AG's Office has released limited information about the case, frustrating Haynes' family, especially after evidence was discovered in August.

Haynes, a native of Stuart, Florida, had moved to New Hampshire to live with relatives, resettling after a tumultuous relationship with a man that led to her being convicted of domestic violence and a restraining issued for her protection, according to WMUR-TV. According to posts online, including a GoFundMe.com effort by a family member attempting to raise money to help her parents come to the Granite State, the family grew unnerved during the last 10 months by the lack of transparency involving the case.

Evidence found last year included remains inside of a washing machine as well as crates removed from a pond in Grafton. Authorities also searched a camper on a wooded lot on French Hill Road, the home of a friend, and a home she was staying in.

Valorie Haynes Alvorez, the woman's great aunt, has been performing her own investigation of the case while attempting not to interfere with authorities. She told WMUR last night that when Haynes vanished, her Social Security benefits were cut off, in that hope that if she just left the area on her own, she would resurface. When she didn't, they knew something was amiss.

"We are still anxiously and I do mean ANXIOUSLY waiting for the results of what the crates which were found at Grants Pond in Grafton contained," noted Alvorez on the GoFundMe site. "The results have been slow in forth coming so what we have to report at this time is in essence NOTHING YET!!!!!"

In February and March, Alvorez shared her aggravation and frustration with the state of the case and the lack of information coming from investigators.

"The AG's office will most likely end up placing this one on their long list of unsolved murders," Alvorez added. "NH seems to be the place where people like the idiots who know what happened to her go about their lives as if nothing happened while the families are the ones who suffer and grieve. We need to have justice for Trish and if the law can't seem to bring the guilty parties to swift justice then we still need to demand some answers and some results."

In late June, the family made plans to host a rally at the Statehouse in Concord on Sept. 6 in an effort to raise awareness about the case.

Haynes’s death is still being actively investigated and anyone with information is asked to contact the New Hampshire State Police at 603-223-4381.

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