Dustin Duren has been charged with the murder of his wife Caitlyn Naffziger in New Hampshire
According to police reports Dustin Duren allegedly shot Caitlyn Naffziger inside of their apartment in Berlin New Hampshire and then would take their two children and flee
An Amber Alert would be issued as police feared for the safety of the two children aged 4 and 1 years old
Thankfully the children would be found safe and unharmed and Dustin Duren would be taken into custody
Dustin Duren has been charged with murder and remains in custody
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Two young children, who prompted an Amber Alert in New Hampshire, are safe, and their father is in custody after police said he shot and killed their mother.
According to the New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella, 37-year-old Dustin Mark Duren was charged with second-degree murder in the death of 31-year-old Caitlyn Naffziger.
Police said that Duren allegedly shot his wife, Naffziger, on Thursday night in the couple’s shared Berlin, New Hampshire apartment.
The discovery of Naffziger’s body prompted state police to issue an hour-long Amber Alert for the couple’s two daughters, 4-year-old Elowyn Duren and 1-year-old Vaelyn Duren.
Attorney General Formella said that the girls had been last seen in Berlin, New Hampshire, around 8 p.m. Thursday with their father, Duren.
They said Duren “may possibly be armed and dangerous,” but did not offer any additional details.
At 10:30 a.m. on Friday, New Hampshire State Police announced that Elowyn and Vaelyn had been found safe at an Applebee’s restaurant in Keene, which is about three hours south from Berlin.
Authorities said that Duren was taken into custody without incident at the restaurant
On Friday evening, Formella announced that the Amber Alert issued had been canceled.
“The Department of Justice greatly thanks the public for their assistance in this matter and their responsiveness to the alert issued earlier by the New Hampshire State Police,” the attorney general said in a release.
The New Hampshire District Attorney did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Matthew Millar is a former correctional officer in New Hampshire who has been charged with the murder of Jason Rothe
According to police reports Jason Rothe was being kept at a secure mental health prison in New Hampshire when he was restrained by Matthew Millar. Millar would allegedly kneel on the neck of Jason Rothe which would cause his death
An autopsy would reveal that Jason Rothe died from compressional and positional asphyxia. At the time of his death Jason was handcuffed
Matthew Millar has now been charged with second degree murder
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A former corrections officer was charged Thursday with second-degree murder in the death of a patient at New Hampshire’s prison psychiatric unit nine months ago.
Matthew Millar, 39, of Boscawen, is accused of kneeling on Jason Rothe’s torso and neck for several minutes on April 29 while Rothe was face-down and handcuffed in the secure psychiatric unit at the state prison in Concord. The unit treats inmates in need of acute psychiatric care, those found not guilty by reason of insanity and those — like Rothe — who haven’t committed crimes but are deemed too dangerous to remain at the state psychiatric hospital.
According to court documents, Rothe, 50, was committed to New Hampshire Hospital in 2019 because of mental illness and transferred to the prison unit in 2022 out of concern he posed a risk to himself or others. Shortly after his death, investigators said Rothe died after a physical altercation with several corrections officers and that an autopsy was inconclusive. On Thursday, the attorney general’s office said Rothe’s cause of death was combined compressional and positional asphyxia
Millar made an initial appearance Thursday in court, where his attorney said he intends to plead not guilty. He was ordered held without bail pending a hearing Feb. 14.
Prosecutors allege that Millar acted recklessly in causing Rothe’s death after he refused to leave a “day room” in the psychiatric unit. While officers initially offered Rothe snacks and tried to talk him into leaving, they eventually decided to forcibly remove him.
In court documents, investigators said all of those involved had been trained on the use of force and interacting with inmates and patients suffering from mental illness, including specialized training about asphyxia. But the restraint Millar used is expressly contrary to that training, investigators said.
Six officers were involved in the altercation, but the attorney general’s office said it does not plan to bring further charges. Millar’s employment ended Dec. 13, the Department of Corrections said Thursday. The others had returned to work after initially being placed on leave, but they are on leave again pending another internal review, the department said.
The housing of civilly committed psychiatric patients at the prison has long sparked protest. The state has faced multiple lawsuits, and lawmakers in recent years have allocated money to build a stand-alone forensic psychiatric hospital on the grounds of the state hospital to move such patients out of the prison.
A former New Hampshire corrections officer is facing a murder charge in connection with the death of a patient in the secure psychiatric unit at the state prison.
Former corrections officer Matthew Millar, 39, of Boscawen, is accused of pressing his knee to the patient’s upper back and lower neck area, leading to his death. Millar is charged with second-degree murder.
According to court records, six corrections officers were trying to restrain Jason Rothe, 50, on April 29. Witnesses told investigators that Millar put his weight on Rothe’s upper back and neck and kept it there for several minutes while the patient was handcuffed.
Officials with the attorney general’s office said that tactic goes against state policy.
“The decision to bring a charge of this nature for on-duty conduct by a law enforcement officer was not made lightly but was based on a careful and thorough review of the facts and the law,” Attorney General John Formella said in a statement to News 9.
Matthew Millar has not worked for the Department of Corrections since Dec. 13. He is being held without bail.
In a statement, Department of Corrections commissioner Helen Hanks said in part, “I personally extend my sympathies to the family and loved ones of Mr. Rothe. The allegations released today are reprehensible and do not align with my expectations of staff, nor do they align to the Department’s mission and responsibilities.”
The Department of Corrections said the other officers involved in Rothe’s death have been placed back on leave as another administrative review is conducted.
According to court records, Rothe had been committed to New Hampshire Hospital in 2019 but was transferred to the prison’s psychiatric facility in 2022 over concerns he posed a danger to himself and others.
According to court documents Christopher Gribble and Steven Spader along with two other accomplices would break into the home of Kimberly Cates who was home alone with her eleven year old daughter. Christopher Gribble and Steven Spader would attack the pair with a machete with Kimberly being struck over thirty times. The eleven year old daughter would also be attacked but thankfully survived her injuries
Christopher Gribble and Steven Spader were arrested and convicted
Christopher Gribble would be sentenced to life in prison
Steven Spader would be sentenced to life in prison plus seventy six years as he was the one to strike the two victims
He is his parents’ only child, who they adopted when he was just days old.
He was a personable kid who loved to play with other children in his neighborhood when he was young.
He was a mediocre athlete thanks to flat feet and asthma, but dove into drama and played Daddy Warbucks in a school production of “Annie,” even shaving his head for the role.
He was a deeply troubled teenager who found pleasure in hip-hop music that celebrates horror. He bragged about made-up killings and claimed to be in a violent street gang.
He is a murderer.
Now 21 years old, he is also a father.
Spader, the man who orchestrated the murder of 42-year-old Kimberly Cates and attack on her then-11-year-old daughter, Jaimie, fathered a child before he was arrested in October 2009. The girl was born in January 2010, according to a letter written by his mother.
“(The mother) brought her to us when she was 5 days old. We all cried,” Christine Spader wrote in documents unsealed this week at Hillsborough County Superior Court. “Steve wrote us a letter begging us to see if he could see the baby and he would be the best father in the world. We sent him photos. (The mother) came to the trial one day. I think to say good-bye.”
Christine Spader’s letter is only a few pages of the ream of documents Judge Gillian Abramson unsealed this week at the request of The Telegraph and New Hampshire Union Leader.
Now, Spader is described as almost happy in prison. After numerous infractions at Valley Street jail in Manchester, Spader has behaved at the New Hampshire State Prison for Men’s Special Housing Unit. He works out and tries to limit his carbs. He talks to his parents daily and sees them weekly. He has struck up a friendship with a 50-year-old woman who raised her own troubled son. He told his parents he has made his peace with God, Christine Spader wrote.
“This is more discipline than he has ever shown with anything before,” Christine Spader wrote. “He said that prison was good for him and that he probably would have ended up there for something no matter what we did.”
But the documents unsealed this week show that in his teens, Spader was in crisis. His parents tried everything. They brought him to psychologists and psychiatrists. They hired an advocate to make sure his school wrote him an Individualized Educational Plan. They borrowed money against their home and spent tens of thousands of dollars on programs in leadership and residential treatment programs in New York and Utah.
Nothing worked.
Spader was adopted when he was 5 days old by Steven and Christine Spader. His birth mother was a drug user, and he tested positive for cocaine and marijuana when he was born. Two years later, his biological mother contacted the Spaders when she became pregnant again, but the biological father ended up taking custody of the boy before the Spaders adopted him, according to court documents.
Spader had an otherwise normal childhood in Brookline. He was anxious at times and struggled but did well in school, played with neighborhood kids, took family vacations. His parents hugged and kissed him and told him they loved him.
Struggles in school increased in middle school and even more in high school. Spader talked about and even researched going to a boarding school because it was too stressful at school and at home, according to court documents.
Spader’s father produced a spreadsheet of significant events in his son’s life for lawyers. In it, October 2006 is marked as the first date Spader visited a psychiatrist, Dr. Peter Kelley at The Counseling Center of Nashua. Spader saw a variety of other doctors, experts and psychologists at a number of facilities and had any number of diagnoses, including bipolar disorder and major depression.
The spreadsheet also details Spader’s troubles with police and his parents. In November 2007, he went to a friend’s birthday party at the Tewksbury (Mass.) Roller Rink and met a girl. The ensuing relationship, described as “intense and turbulent” by a psychiatrist, produced Spader’s daughter and also appears to mark an important fork in Spader’s life. He went from being a boy surrounded by loving parents, Boy Scouts and school to someone who cared more about hanging out with new friends.
For these friends at Souhegan High School – where he wasn’t known, having previously attended Hollis Brookline High School – he posed as a man of action, a gangster, bragging about being a member of a street gang and committing murders. He began smoking more marijuana and doing other prescription and street drugs, according to an evaluation written by Dr. Robert Kinscherff, a psychiatrist and lawyer hired by Spader’s defense attorneys.
Spader had brief stints at psychiatric hospitals, including twice in 2008. The same year, he ran away with the mother of his child. Police in New York picked them up and returned them to New Hampshire.
There were also two violent interactions with his parents that year, once when he pointed a knife at his father. In another, police had to intervene after Spader grabbed kitchen knives and began stabbing the counters and throwing food, according to court documents.
In May 2008, Spader was enrolled in Adirondack Leadership Expeditions, which costs $500 a day, in Saranac Lake, N.Y. He left less than two weeks later when officials there said he needed a higher level of treatment than they could provide. His counselor there described him as a “house of cards,” according to court documents.
He was escorted from there to the Aspen Education Residential Treatment Center in Syracuse, Utah. That program cost $9,000 a month and was not covered by insurance. He left there within a month, according to court documents.
Kinscherff doesn’t appear to come to any firm diagnosis in his report. He said he did not observe a major mental illness when he met with Spader in June 2010.
“I do find evidence of narcissistic personality traits, borderline personality disorder trails and antisocial/asocial traits that have previously prompted a diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder,” Kinscherff wrote.
Spader hasn’t shown any manic or hypomanic episodes in prison, even though he hasn’t been treated for any mental illnesses since he was arrested, according to Kinscherff’s report.
“It would be very unusual for an individual diagnosed in mid-adolescence with recurrent major depression or bipolar disorder to subsequently show no clear manifestation of mood disorder while untreated over a period of many months to years,” Kinscherff wrote.
Spader’s parents, having spent thousands to try to find help for their son, finally ran out of answers. During a deposition after Spader was convicted, Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeff Strelzin asked Spader’s father what he wished the judge would consider about his son. His response, similar to his wife’s, was about the state’s mental health system.
“You know, certainly the crime is just beyond the scope of my imagination. I mean, I feel for the families. But obviously we’ve tried to do a lot of stuff in the mental health area here in New Hampshire, and it’s been a serious letdown,” he said. “It’s just appalling how poor it is here in this state, just absolutely appalling.
“And you know, we’ve tried to do what we can. Could we have done more? I don’t know. That’s a question I keep asking myself.”
Virene Poliquin is a former bus driver from New Hampshire who has been charged with assaulting multiple students with disabilities. According to police reports while Virene Poliquin was employed by Durham Bus Company she would assault at least three students aged five and six. The assaults were everything from clapping, kicking, grabbing, covering mouths with a hand, and pouring water on a victim.
Police would learn about the assaults and would begin a investigation and soon after Virene Poliquin would be charged with nine counts of misdemeanor simple assault. I am a little bit surprised that there are no charges related to child abuse considering the age and disabilities of the assault victims.
Needless to say Virene Poiquin employment as a bus driver is over. The sixty eight year old woman would post a $500 bond and would be released until her next court appearance.
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A former New Hampshire school bus driver was arrested Monday after police say she recently assaulted at least three students with disabilities.
Virene Poliquin, 68, of Hudson, is charged with nine counts of misdemeanor simple assault in connection with “disturbing” acts involving three juveniles between the ages of 5 and 6, Hudson Police Chief Tad Dionne announced Tuesday.
Police launched an investigation into Poliquin after the Hudson School District received a report on Feb. 20 about an alleged incident in which water was thrown on a child who was riding a bus that transports students with disabilities, according to Dionne.
“During the course of the investigation, it was determined that Virene Poliquin assaulted one student seven times and two other students once,” Dionne said during a news conference.
The nature of the alleged assaults included clapping, kicking, grabbing, covering mouths with a hand, and pouring water on a victim. Dionne said all of the assaults occurred on Feb. 17. There were no injuries were reported.
“I’ve been a police officer a long time. Needless to say, there aren’t too many events that make me pause when reviewing a case. This incident did so. The victims in this case are among our most vulnerable,” Dionne said. “Poliquin’s actions are completely unacceptable, disturbing, and without justification under the law.”
The Durham Bus Company, Poliquin’s former employer, is said to be cooperating with the investigation.
Police are still working to determine whether any additional assaults happened on other dates.
Poliquin has since posted $500 bail. She is due to appear in court on April 6.
Murtadah Muhammad is a POS from Manchester New Hampshire who admitted to police that he tortured his seven year old son as discipline. According to police reports Murtadah Muhammad seven year old son was rushed to the hospital with severe injuries and the little boy is currently fighting for his life. When speaking to police Murtadah Muhammad would admit using power cords and hot water. The seven year old boy suffered burns to 15 to 20 percent of his body and had 30 loop marks. Murtadah Muhammad has been charged with first- and second-degree assault, falsifying physical evidence, and endangering the welfare of a child.
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A man accused of abusing his 7-year-old son has been charged with assault, endangering the welfare of a child and falsifying evidence as the boy remains hospitalized.
According to court documents, Murtadah Mohammad, 25, admitted to using power cords and hot water for what he called forms of discipline on his son, Jaevion.
Officers responding to Mohammad’s Eastern Avenue apartment Thursday said the boy was unconscious and wasn’t breathing.
Police said his injuries include burns on 15-20% of his body and more than 30 loop marks with broken skin. After testing the faucet water, police found that its highest temperature was 153 degrees.
The boy’s mom, Rainah Riley, told News 9 he is in serious condition and is being treated at Massachusetts General Hospital. In court Friday, she said the family is preparing for the worst.
Neighbors said they were heartbroken to hear that something like this could have been happening in their backyard.
“He’s a very good boy and kind. Very quiet, respectful,” said neighbor Amani Lameldin. “I can’t believe that was going on to him.”
Lameldin said her son is very good friends with Jaevion, and they play together after school. She said he doesn’t understand where his friend is or what happened.
“He asked me, ‘Where’s JJ, mom? Where is he? Is he going to go to school tomorrow?'” she said.
Neighbors said they’re hoping that the boy’s condition improves.
“I was just inside, laying down, getting ready for work that morning while a kid was getting hurt, and I had no idea,” said neighbor Jennifer Giuffrida. “And now I think about my kids.”
Mohammad waived his arraignment Friday and is being held on preventative detention.
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