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    David Wheelock, (48) Killed in 2013 in New Hampshire

    https://patch.com/new-hampshire/nash...keene-murder-0

    KEENE, NH ? New Hampshire authorities are asking for the public's help in solving a two-year-old Keene murder.

    David Wheelock, 48, of Keene, was shot to death on Dec. 21, 2013 at his residence at 170 Pearl St. No one has been arrested in his murder.

    Police on Monday announced new information in the case?they said a brown Buick LeSabre or Buick Century was seen speeding away from the murder scene on Pearl Street at about 9 p.m. the day of the murder.

    Here are photos of what the car may look like:
    Anyone with information is asked to contact Keene police at 603-357-9820. You can submit an anonymous tip here.

    https://www.sentinelsource.com/news/...bee892224.html

    Three gunshots were fired one year ago today, killing a man within seconds inside his home on Pearl Street in Keene.

    Who killed 48-year-old David E. Wheelock and why remains a mystery, but investigators say they aren?t giving up hope that one day they?ll have the answers to those looming questions.

    The authorities probing Wheelock?s death continue to scour for clues about what happened the night of Dec. 21, 2013. The possible theories procured, in part, from more than 100 witness interviews are immense, Assistant N.H. Attorney General Benjamin J. Agati said last week.

    And investigators say it?s too early to discount any one of them just yet.

    What police have not determined is whether more than one person carried out the homicide, and whether Wheelock was the intended target or the victim of a random crime, Agati said.

    That being said, there is also no evidence to support a wider threat to the people of Keene or Cheshire County, Agati noted. Should police have any suspicion of such a threat, they would notify the community immediately, he said.

    Agati?s words are somewhat reassuring to those who live in close proximity to Wheelock?s former home at 170 Pearl St. Nevertheless, neighbors say, the empty house is a daily reminder of the unsolved homicide and the other crimes that probe unearthed.

    ?This was once a nice, quiet, beautiful neighborhood that people were proud to live in, and then all of the sudden...? said Arlene E. Guyette, who has lived in the same Pearl Street home for 62 years.

    Wheelock?s former housemate, Nicholas A. Coll, 26, was convicted this past summer of two felony counts of cruelty to animals, for performing sexual acts on a German shepherd and a yellow Labrador retriever, according to court documents. That abuse occurred in March of 2012 and May of 2012 at 170 Pearl St., where he was living at the time.

    According to an affidavit in the case, Coll and Wheelock created online accounts to talk with others about their bestiality, sexual contact with animals.

    Agati said Thursday his team is looking into whether someone?s knowledge of bestiality in the home was a motivating factor in Wheelock?s death. The authorities are also probing theories about whether Wheelock?s sexual offender status made him a target, Agati said.

    ?We don?t have evidence that this was the case, but we?re not ruling anything out.?

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    Wheelock was convicted of 28 counts of child pornography in October 2005, according to the N.H. Department of Safety?s sex offender registry.

    Longtime residents of Pearl Street said last week they had limited interaction with Wheelock and, therefore, knew little about him.

    Clarence ?Clancy? and Winifred M. ?Winnie? Faulkner, who have lived on Pearl Street for 50 years, said on their doorstep Thursday that they would see Wheelock taking his dogs for a walk daily.

    Wheelock was confined to a wheelchair due to multiple sclerosis, but that didn?t keep him from getting outside, the couple said. They recalled one time Clancy heard Wheelock hollering for help because he had gotten his wheelchair stuck in the mud.

    ?Clancy pulled him out. He was OK,? Winnie said.

    Guyette didn?t know Wheelock or his housemates, but like the Faulkners she frequently saw Wheelock out and about. Since his death, the home has had few visitors, she said.

    ?I don?t know who would want to live there now. I say tear it down and build a nice cottage.?

    In the weeks following Wheelock?s death, his sister Diane C. Blinn of Plaistow because the administrator of the $128,800 estate, according to records filed in 8th Circuit Court Probate Division. Wheelock died without a will.

    The front lawn of 170 Pearl St. now bears a ?for sale? sign. The asking price for the three-bedroom home is $45,000, according to a local Realtor?s website.

    Neighbors say they haven?t seen much activity from any potential buyers or from police officers, who had become a regular presence in the neighborhood last December.

    The yellow crime tape is gone and so too are the unmarked cruisers that once lined the driveway outside the red-painted home. But the memories of that foggy December night are not ones Pearl Street residents will soon ? if ever ? forget.

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    But the conspiracy theories surrounding David Wheelock of New Hampshire reminds me of an unrelated case where the death of Danny Paquette was unsolved for 2 decades and because one of the killers made allegations against the deceased

    https://www.concordmonitor.com/Judge...elease-2050925

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    https://www.change.org/p/new-hampshi...friends-abuser

    https://www.concordmonitor.com/Judge...elease-2050925

    Here is what I meant here.

    A Hopkinton man imprisoned for murdering his friend’s abusive stepfather in 1985 has been denied early release, but could still shave a few months off his sentence.

    In an order released Tuesday, Judge Richard McNamara of Merrimack County Superior Court rejected the request from Eric Windhurst, who has about four years left in a 15-year sentence, saying a release now would detract from the goal of general deterrence. But McNamara hailed Windhurst as a “model prisoner,” and said he would be open to granting him earned time credits, in which inmates can knock a few months off their sentences through education and programming.

    “While the court believes that it cannot suspend any of the defendant’s sentence at this time, in light of the circumstances of this case, (it) would be inclined to rule favorably on a request for time credit. . . . if recommended by the commissioner of corrections,” he wrote.
    Windhurst carried out the deadly attack after a friend confided that she had been sexually abused by her stepfather, Danny Paquette. They concealed the crime for nearly 20 years, until the friend, Melanie Cooper, agreed to open up to authorities. Windhurst pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2006.

    At a hearing last month, Windhurst apologized profusely to Paquette’s family, saying he could never shake the guilt of his crime. Supporters from the community called him a changed man and said they would not hesitate to welcome him back into their homes. Relatives of Paquette spoke out against the request, saying he had admitted to murder only after being ratted out.

    Windhurst’s attorney claims Cooper manipulated him into carrying out the attack, and noted that she received a comparatively slim sentence – 15 months for hindering arrest. But state prosecutors countered that Cooper played no direct role in the killing, and said Windhurst’s real motive was outrage over having just discovered that his own father sexually abused his sisters.

    Regardless, McNamara acknowledged that Windhurst has worked hard in prison to rehabilitate himself and prepare for life on the outside.

    “While incarcerated, and subject to the pressures inside any prison to engage in violent and antisocial conduct, he continued to maintain social ties with his community, and continue to enhanced (sic) his skills as a woodworker, to the extent that many of the letters in support of a sentence reduction suggest that he would be readily employable when he is released,” McNamara wrote.

    Windhurst has already completed job training and several nonviolence seminars in prison. It’s unclear whether he is already eligible for earned time credits, and if so, how much. He will have served his minimum sentence on Dec. 13, 2020.

    If released, Windhurst had planned to live with his parents in Hopkinton.

    (Jeremy Blackman can be reached at 369-3319, jblackman@cmonitor.com or on Twitter @JBlackmanCM.)

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    https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedM...n_a_small_new/

    https://www.ccjrnh.org/sex_offender_..._new_hampshire

    There is a serial killer at large in Keene, New Hampshire. The killer is targeting individuals whose names and addresses appear on New Hampshire’s Registry of Criminal Offenders and whose residences are pinpointed on the Keene Police Department’s online “CrimeReports” map. This killer has struck twice in the past three months, killing one man and severely maiming another. Citizens for Criminal Justice Reform is asking the State of New Hampshire and the City of Keene to take immediate steps to prevent further tragedy by taking down the State’s online sex offender registry and the City of Keene’s crime map until the killer is apprehended.

    At about 8:30 PM on the evening of October 24, 2013, Walter Field was brutally attacked after answering a knock on the door of his Westmoreland farmhouse. Field was beaten so severely that he will need reconstructive facial surgery. State Police Sgt. Shawn M. Skahan is quoted as saying the attacker made statements, overheard by Field’s brother, that led police to conclude that a neighbor, who is a registered sex offender, had been the intended target.

    Then, at about 9:30 PM on December 22, David Wheelock was murdered in the kitchen of his Keene home. He was shot to death in his wheelchair after answering a knock at his door. David was listed on New Hampshire’s sex offender registry.

    These are not the first New Hampshire citizens targeted because of the State’s decision to disseminate their personal information via the web. Nine years ago Lawrence Trant stabbed a registrant in Concord, left him for dead, and tried to burn two apartment buildings with seven former sex offenders among the tenants. Police found a printout of the State’s sex offender registry in Trant’s apartment, marked up like a hit list. Stephen Marshall of Nova Scotia killed two registrants in Maine in 2006. Like Trant, he found them online. Evidence suggested Marshall had targeted New Hampshire registrants as well. Across the nation, at least 20 other sex offenders have been murdered precisely because the assailants found them on the registry and, according to published news articles, more than 400 other people convicted or accused of sex offenses have been slain in the past decade, some possibly targeted as registrants.

    Experience in Maine, Washington State, and here in New Hampshire shows assailants who target individuals solely because of their listing on a sex offender registry have multiple victims. We at Citizens for Criminal Justice Reform believe that the State of New Hampshire must take responsibility for the safety of the citizens whose personal information it chooses to disseminate via the Department of Safety’s official website. The State of Maine temporarily took down its registry during Marshall’s killing spree to protect those individuals listed on it. Until this killer is apprehended, we ask New Hampshire to do likewise – take down the online Registry of Criminal Offenders. We also ask the City of Keene to remove its online “CrimeReports” map for the same duration. We believe failure to do so makes the City and State complicit in any further assaults on registrants, their families and their neighbors.
    https://www.sentinelsource.com/news/...140ea2378.html

    The case against a man accused of having sex with a dog at his Keene home is moving forward.

    Nicholas A. Coll, 25, waived his right to a probable cause hearing Wednesday at the 8th Circuit Court District Division in Keene. Coll is charged with animal cruelty, a felony. Police allege the abuse happened at Coll’s home at 170 Pearl St., the same building where a man was shot and killed last month.

    The case against Coll will now be forwarded to Cheshire County Superior Court in Keene, where felony-level cases are heard.

    Keene police have declined to discuss the whereabouts of the dog, or the medical treatment it may have received since Coll’s arrest on Jan. 2. They also will not say who owns the dog they allege Coll abused.

    Judge Edward J. Burke ordered a search warrant and arrest affidavit in the case sealed until April 2 at the request of Keene police Lt. James F. McLaughlin.

    According to the motion to seal, the Coll search warrant incorporates “two other search warrant affidavits which deal with the investigation of a homicide.”

    On the evening of Dec. 21, David Wheelock, 48, was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds he suffered inside the home he owned at 170 Pearl St. and allowed Coll to live in. The N.H. Attorney General’s Office and Keene police are continuing to investigate his death.

    Coll and residents of Pearl Street told The Sentinel in December that Wheelock owned two dogs. According to Coll’s Facebook page, he owns a dog named Miya Ann Coll, who has her own Facebook account.

    At Coll’s probable cause hearing Wednesday, his public defender, Jay M. Buckey, asked Burke to reduce bail from $10,000 cash to $5,000 personal recognizance. He told the court Coll has lived in New Hampshire most of his life and is not a flight risk.

    However, if Coll were to be released from the Cheshire County jail, he could no longer live in the single-family house on Pearl Street, Buckey said.

    Jean Kilham, a prosecutor for the Keene Police Department, disagreed with Buckey that Coll is not a threat to the community. She alleged Coll has “engaged in this type of conduct on multiple occasions, with multiple dogs, over multiple years.” Coll told Keene police that he has been engaged in bestiality since he was 13 years old, according to Kilham.

    Burke denied Coll’s request for reduced bail, saying the sealed affidavit outlines a “fairly serious and ongoing situation.”

    Coll, formerly of Hancock, has a previous conviction of animal cruelty for having sex with a 3-year-old golden retriever named Katie in April 2007, according to court records. Coll was 18 years old at the time.

    Police began investigating the incident after a Hancock family reported that their dog came home showing signs of assault, according to an affidavit prepared by then-Hancock police Sgt. Mark S. Wattendorf. A veterinarian told Katie’s owners that the dog had suffered injuries “caused by likely sexual trauma,” Wattendorf wrote.

    Katie lived down the street from a friend of Coll’s, according to the affidavit.

    On April 5, 2007, the day of the assault, one of Katie’s owners had seen her running east with Coll trailing behind, Wattendorf wrote.

    Coll had sex with Katie in the second-floor bedroom of an abandoned house after he broke into the home through a side door, Wattendorf wrote.

    At the time of the assault, Coll had started an informal dog walking service in Hancock, former Hancock Police Chief Steve Baldwin told The Sentinel in a recent interview. He said it was little more than Coll asking Hancock residents if he could walk their dogs in the village.

    Coll was convicted of animal cruelty and criminal trespass in Jaffrey-Peterborough District Court, now 8th Circuit Court District Division in Jaffrey, in July 2007.

    Coll received a 180-day jail sentence, deferred on the conditions of full-time employment and that he participate in sex-offender evaluation, according to court records. The court also prohibited Coll from taking any jobs working with animals.

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