‘Person of Interest’ Sketch Released in Mysterious Double Homicide of New Hampshire Couple on a Hike

Police in New Hampshire are looking for a brown-haired white man in his twenties or thirties who was seen within the space the place a middle-age couple was brutally murdered on April 18 whereas out on a hike close to their residence in Harmony.

The our bodies of Stephen, 67, and Djeswende Reid, 66, who have been avid hikers and former worldwide support staff, have been discovered on April 21 after their household reported them lacking. Each had been shot on the path a number of occasions, in response to post-mortem studies.

On Tuesday, New Hampshire Lawyer Basic John Formella and Harmony Chief of Police Bradley Osgood launched a sketch of a person they known as a “individual of curiosity,” who was reportedly seen within the space on the time. Additionally they elevated the reward to $33,500 for details about the person—who they are saying was carrying a darkish blue jacket, khaki pants, and carrying a black backpack that day. He’s described as roughly 5 toes 10 inches with a medium construct. He was clean-shaven on the time.

Nameless donors gave $20,000 and $5,000 towards the reward cash, police mentioned in a Fb publish.

When Stephen Reid didn’t present up for his tennis date the day after they went for a hike, a good friend known as the couple’s son Brian, who went to their condo complicated. He known as police who decided there was no signal of foul play, compelled entry, or something that led them to consider they have been focused first of their residence. “The mattress was neatly made and a window was open. Each their telephones are nonetheless within the condo,” the son mentioned on the time. “My dad’s pockets can be nonetheless within the condo, and each their automobiles are right here.”

Police canvassed the world, asking anybody with a home-surveillance digicam to examine footage to see the place the couple could be, or who else may need walked close to their residence. It’s unclear if these movies led to the identification of the individual of curiosity.

The couple have been each support staff and Peace Corps volunteers, avid basketball gamers, and adventurists. They lived and labored in Senegal, Chad, and Niger throughout their life collectively. “Steve’s thirty-plus-year profession as a global growth specialist in service to the world’s most weak via USAID humanitarian tasks couldn’t have been made doable with out the love, care and help of Wendy, who additionally helped just lately resettled refugees acclimate and thrive in the USA,” the Reid household wrote within the assertion after their our bodies have been found.

Anybody with info is requested to name the Harmony Police Division at (603) 225-8600, Harmony Regional Crimeline at (603) 226-3100 or Crimeline web site.