Massachusetts Man Charged With Murder Of New Hampshire Man Connected To 2016 Cold Case

CONCORD, NH — State officials believe they have solved a murder case out of Conway from May 2016.

Robert Dowling, 51, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was arrested last week on a fugitive from justice warrant after investigators accused him of killing David “Bruce” Goodwin, 64, of Conway on May 15, 2016. Goodwin was attacked at the Conway Valley Inn where he was the innkeeper, according to a Conway Daily Sun report in 2016. He died two days later at Maine Medical Center. An autopsy showed the cause of death to be blunt force trauma to the head.

Dowling is being held without bail in the Bay State and was scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Essex MA County Superior Court. Michael Garrity, the public information officer for the department, said extradition proceedings would follow.

Garrity said officials thanked Conway and Haverhill MA police as well as Mass. State Police and the Essex County MA District Attorney’s Office for apprehending and detaining Dowling on the warrant.

Have you got a news tip? Please send it to tony.schinella@patch.com. View videos on Tony Schinella's YouTube.com channel or Rumble.com channel. Check out the #FITN2024 NH Patch post channel and follow our politics Twitter account @NHPatchPolitics for all our campaign coverage.