When a New Hampshire woman disappeared 35 years ago, her family assumed she and her boyfriend left town to avoid money troubles. But on Tuesday, authorities said they consider her a missing person and have begun a criminal investigation based on new information.
The state attorney general’s office said Denise Beaudin’s family last saw her on Thanksgiving 1981, when she was 23, with her boyfriend, Robert “Bob” Evans, and her infant daughter. When relatives went to visit her Manchester home a few days later, the couple and baby were gone. The family did not contact police at the time, said Jeffery Strelzin, senior assistant attorney general and chief of the homicide unit.
“It was a different time, you had no cellphones, no social media, so it was different,” he said.
Investigators have been in touch with Beaudin’s daughter, Strelzin said.
“We know where she is, we’ve identified her, she’s alive and well,” he said of the daughter. “She doesn’t want her identity released at this time, but she’s OK.”
