Crime & Safety

Suspicious Death Investigation Of A Woman At A Concord Homeless Camp Continues: Follow-Up

Video: Concord, NH State Police investigators will be at the Pembroke Water Works through the weekend investigating the death of a woman.

CONCORD, NH — Concord investigators were at a homeless camp at the Pembroke Water Works property on Manchester Street for a second day, searching for clues in what the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office is now calling a suspicious death of a woman on Thursday.

Limited information is being released about the case.

Investigators were seen accessing the area for several hours on Friday afternoon after spending several hours on Thursday night and Friday morning at the site. Detectives were also seen canvassing manufactured home parks along Manchester Street, speaking to residents.

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Police are using ATVs to access the site, which is deep in the woods between Manchester Street and the Soucook River, the city line with Pembroke.

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Deputy Chief Garrett Moulton said he expected investigators to be at the scene through the weekend.

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The woman was found dead outside of a tent at the camp around 9:30 p.m. on Thursday by family members after police and fire and rescue teams were requested to the area for a report of a woman who was unconscious and not breathing.

Concord firefighters later confirmed she was dead.

A press statement from the attorney general’s office said she was found outside of a tent site and close to the Pembroke town line.

The attorney general’s office is withholding the woman’s name and her cause of death until all the next of kin have been notified, Michael Garrity, the director of the communications department, said.

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