Harrison Thorp
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 6:04 am
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New Hampshire State Police have identified the man’s body found in Lebanon as that of Aaron Wilkinson, 18, of 36 Evans Road, Madbury, N.H.
The teen’s body was found Saturday around 4 p.m. about five feet off the edge of Long Swamp Road in the area of a frog pond about three tenths of a mile south of Lord Road. A woman walking her dog found the remains.
On Sunday police released the cause of death as multiple stab wounds and that it was a homicide, meaning the wounds were not self-inflicted.
The Evans Road home of the Madbury teenager had been the scene of intense police activity since Saturday morning when it is reported parents found him missing and called police.
Since missing persons cases are not always treated so aggressively it is speculated police may have found some evidence of a crime early on at the residence.
On Sunday afternoon, a man crying across the street from the house said, “My son died today, and I ask that you respect my privacy,” it was reported in Sunday’s Union Leader of Manchester.
The man refused to identify himself.
A press release from Maine State Police Spokesman Stephen McCausland indicates while officials from both states are cooperatively investigating the case, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office is the lead agency, indicating officials must think any foul play leading to the teen’s death would have occurred in New Hampshire.
The woman who discovered the body said he was lying on his stomach in a pool of blood when she found him.
The investigation into the circumstances of how Wilkinson was killed is ongoing, New Hampshire investigators said.