PLAISTOW, N.H. (WHDH) – Authorities have launched a suspicious death investigation after a woman was found dead in Plaistow, New Hampshire on Sunday morning.

Officers responding to a 911 call from a home on Old County Road around 6:13 a.m. found a woman and a man suffering from injuries. The woman was pronounced dead, the man was taken to the hospital, according to a statement issued by Attorney General John M. Formella, New Hampshire State Police Colonel Mark B. Hall, and Plaistow Police Department Chief John Santoro. The woman’s name has not been released.

There does not appear to be any threat to the general public in connection with this situation.  At this time, authorities are investigating the incident as a possible murder and attempted suicide, the statement said.

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by News Release, InDepthNH.org
May 16, 2025

by News Release, InDepthNH.org
May 16, 2025

CONCORD, NH – This week, Governor Kelly Ayotte signed the following bills into law:

• HB 98 – Relative to professional limited liability company (PLLC) assistant manager status.
• HB 99 – Relative to a waiver from property taxes for disabled veterans.
• HB 122 – Relative to payment of claims arising out of actions or activities of the New Hampshire national guard.
• HB 140 – Establishing a voluntary “blue envelope” program for drivers with autism spectrum disorders and trauma and stressor-related disorders.
• HB 150 – Enabling homestead operations to use commercial kitchen equipment in preparing food for sale.
• HB 167 – Prohibiting the sale of ski, boat, and board waxes that contain intentionally added per and polyfluorinated alkyl substances.
• HB 192 – Relative to recommendations of the joint committee on employee classification.
• HB 211 – Relative to the use of air rifles for hunting game.
• HB 231 – Prohibiting school district personnel from transporting students to medical or mental health appointments, visits, or procedures without parental consent.
• HB 261 – Relative to election audits.
• HB 267 – Relative to animal chiropractors.
• HB 269 – Relative to the date for correction of the voter checklist.
• HB 271 – Relative to initial license requirements for licensed social work associates.
• HB 277 – Relative to the use of the term “foal” and “colt.”
• HB 304 – Relative to labeling requirements for food produced in homestead kitchens.
• HB 370 – Reestablishing the commission to study the delivery of behavioral crisis services to individuals with mental illness with an impairment primarily due to intellectual disability.
• HB 426 – Relative to property tax exemptions for charitable organizations for the prior tax year.
• HB 478 – Establishing a foster care oversight subcommittee within the oversight commission on children’s services.
• HB 507 – Relative to the timeline for credentialing of mental health care providers.
• HB 508 – Relative to decreasing assessment rates for entities providing VoIP and IP-enabled services, as well as certain local exchange carriers and their affiliates.
• HB 513 – Allowing the department of transportation to execute a right-of-way use agreement, subject to Federal Highway Administration approval, for snowmobile operation along Interstate 89 in the town of Sutton, from NH Route 114, traveling south for one mile.
• HB 597 – Establishing a designated behavioral health access point within the enhanced 911 system.
• HB 745 – Naming a bridge in the city of Keene after Charles Redfern.

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