Valley News from West Lebanon, New Hampshire • 2

Page A2 if Valley News Saturday February 21 2004 1 -a 1 By Boa Hookway She left the scene before police arrived Her father Fred Murray said yesterday that when he examined more thoroughly the belongings police let the family take from the Saturn he discovered an index card that contained directions Maura had written to get to Burlington His daughter was far to the east of that destination when the accident occurred but Fred Murray said last night in a telephone interview from the Wells River Motel that he and Maura enjoyed a couple of days of climbing in western Vermont not long ago climbed Monadnock and Camel's Hump on Columbus Day We had a nice dinner We stopped at Norwich University She liked the area but I know what there is in he said Campus police examining computer found that before his daughter left she accessed an online mapping service and downloaded a Burlirigton-area map Fred Murray said Lt John Scarinza New Hampshire State Police troop commander in Twin Mountain said yesterday police in Vermont have been searching the western portion of that state extensively He was as unsure as Fred Murray what to make of the new information want to say it's promising We're still all here and still working on it The Vermont State Police and the Burlington Police Department are said Scarinza who added that police in Vermont had checked motels in Burlington South Burling- ton Colchester Shelburne and other communities Scarinza and Haverhill Police Chief Jeff Williams said there were no new leads yesterday in Maura disappearance They believe she left Route 112 in a vehicle but are not as convinced as family members that since she hasn't been heard from in so long she must have been harmed pr is being prevented from contacting family and friends was apparently leaving Massachusetts without telling her family or her friends or her boyfriend That indicates to me that perhaps she wanted to get away on her own for a certain period of time" said Scarinza who said if not still in New England she might not be aware of the efforts to find her THE ASSOCIATED PRESS contributed to this report Valley News Staff Writer Wells River The father of awoman missing since Feb 9 discovered written directions among her belongings Thursday that indicate she could hpve plumed to travel to Burlington at some point after die left the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst 12 days ago Maura Murray 21 was last seen near her Mack 1996 Saturn after she crashed into a snowbank on Route 112 in North Haverhill AG: Gehring first-degree murder Gehring had pleaded not guilty and his attorneys had recently informed the court they might pursue an insanity defense A Dial was scheduled for September The jail usually has a number of suicide attempts during the course of a year Andeison said The last success was in the fall of 2002 Barbara Keshen one of two public defenders said she had not thought Gehring was a suicide risk know there may have been signs there that I simply missed but I was not worried about Keshen said Gehring had few visitors His father Robert Gehring had last visited a few months ago Anderson said The elder Gehring lives in Virginia The mother Teresa Knight of Hillsboro NH issued a statement through a spokeswoman is feeling a range of emotions right said Pamela Puleo basically feels numb as she tries to absorb the information and what it may mean going The children Sarah and Philip Gehring were last seen at the expressed with in letters BvSahahC Vos Concord Monitor Concord Manuel Gehring the Concord man accused of killing his two children and burying them somewhere in the Midwest strangled himself with a jail-issued bedsheet investigators said yesterday Hours before Gehring had been transferred to a more secure area of the jail for allegedly violating the rules appears that he likely tore his bedsheet and used a portion of it and wrapped it around his said Senior Assistant Attorney General Simon Brown appears that he tied that bedsheet to one of his feet and may have used his foot for leverage as he lay on his A Merrimack County corrections -officer discovered Gehring dead at 4:25 am Thursday when he did not respond to a standing headcount Qffi- cers had checked on Gehring who was locked in a cell by himself at 1 am and at 2:45 am For those checks Gehring was on his bunk and covered by a blanket Brown said Gehring was last seen alive at Gehring his frustration his ex-wife 11:30 pm Wednesday to a reporter Concord July 4 fire- "The Associated Press appointing women to top government posts got senting state managers we find women not At the time of his works Gehring an bumped up to seventh after a spokesman for Gov reaching top levels in lots of levels our society nowa- death Gehring was in unemployed accoun- After making gains in the ranks of state-level Craig Benson contacted the center complaining within tant and Knight had just resolved a policy-makers the percentage of women holding that the survey data was wrong and that the group spokesman Jason Gibbs noted Thurs- the protective-custody unit and was bitter yearlong custody dispute over such positions fell in the past two years a universi- ignored many factors unique to New Hampshire day that of the six Cabinet secretaries appointed by locked in his cell 23 hours a day Sarah 14 and Philip 11 ty research group said have all the facts and they Douglas two are women Transportation Secre- Gehring had been transferred into Gehring later told The Union Lead- In 1999 women held 298 percent of leadership know anything about New way of gov- taiy fatricia McDonald and Agency of Natural that area at approximately 7:45 pm er in a jailhouse interview that he was posts appointed by governors That number rose to said spokesman Wendall Packard Resources Secretary Elizabeth McLain Four of the Wrfnesday because of an alleged vk unhappy with the terms 35 percent in 2001 but then dropped to 32 percent In an e-mail to Packard the director of the cen- six deputy secretaries are female lation of jail rules Brown said In letters Gehring wrote to a Union two years later according to a report released ter yesterday said that based on the new informa- And of the eight senior staff members in Brown declined to say what that Leader reporter which the newspa- Thureday by the Center for Women in Government tion New Hampshire would be placed seventh in office four are female Gibbs added infraction was saying the circum- per published yesterday Gehring Civil Society at the University at Albany the rankings New Hampshire had been 31st in the In 1999 the report said women held 625 percent stanceswerestill under investigation wrote of his displeasure with actions glacial rate of change is said rankings in 1999 of the policy leader positions in Vermont govern- The investigation did not show that of Knight Judith Saidel the project director Saidel the center director could not be reached ment At that time then-Gov Howard Dean had Gehring had expressed any wish to He wrote for instance that his ex- natorial appointees across the country do not look yesterday two female cabinet secretaries and four female top harm himself Brown said decision to remarry on Father's like the people they are The report ranks come a long way but this report reveals staffers The percent dropped to in the most No contraband was found inside the Day forced his children to choose states according to how manywomen have been that we have a long way to go in attracting and recent report with six of 21 reported positions filled cell where Gehring died between him and her appointed to top-level positions in the governor's retaining women in executive level positions" US by women Gehring spent his entire stay at the 15 2003 was Day cabinet or as top-level advisers Sen Hillary Rodham Clinton D-NY said The authors got their statistics rom a sur- Merrimack County jail in the protec- and die knew it! TCie kids were torn Massachusetts came out on top with 50 percent Clinton's state of New York ranked 32nd on the vey sent to the office said Saidel on five custody unit according to Carole between being with their Mom in of its policy posts in the hands of women list with 308 percent of the top policy positions Thursday Anderson the superintendent Hillsborough at her wedding or with Vermont which had been ranked No 1 in 1999 held by women Wendy Love the executive director of the Ver- In general inmates who are accused theirDad in Concord for dropped to 34th in the most recent survey Policy leaders counted in the study include heads mont Commission on Women seen the pf crimes against children cannot be he said ina handwritten two- Gov Jim Douglas defended his record on hiring of state agencies departments and offices as well report Thursday and want to comment on it the general population because page letter dated Nov 9 women to top cabinet positions Thursday saying he as top advisers such as press secretaries chiefs of but she noted that almost one-third of they are targets for other inmates things unfolded they ended up has chosen his staff according to their capabilities staff -and legal advisers elected officials are women Vermont ranks first in Anderson said spending the entire day in Hillsbor- not their sex a woman who had a reasonably high-level New England for women lawmakers and Fifth in Until Wednesday evening Gehring ough because Teresa let pick the best people I can find to fill positions management position in state government Td cer- the nation Love said had not been disciplined Anderson them spend any time with Dad on of Douglas said are men tainly like to see more women in positions of power In New Hampshire Packard said some of the said She described him as a quiet Day The kids were not and some are and said Barbara Zaron president information used in the survey was simply inaccu- inmate happy about wrote Gehring New Hampshire which the new survey original- of the Organization of New York State Manage- rate and the survey failed to recognize that 40 per- New Hampshire prosecutors THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ly ranked as the very worst state when it came to ment Confidential Employees the union repre- cent of staff is female charged Gehring with two counts of contributed to this report KimmickFound in Her Vehicle Dead of Head Injuries Bethel (ap) The woman who police say was last seen alive Jan 18 Her ex-husband illegally fleeing to avoid prosecution was killed by her ex-husband last month died William Kimmick was last seen in Vermont The FBI tracked Kimmick to Taiwan of head injuries documents say on Jan 20! through airline records According to her death certificate the William Kimmick is now in fed- nnKn He had previously done busi- body erf Kathryn Kimmick 41 was found eral custody in Guam awaiting ness in Taiwan it was logi- frozen in her vehicle extradition to Vermont 3 cal that he would go said The Vermont State Police have refused to William Kimmick traveled to JSSjy William McSalis the release the cause of death of Kimmick but Taiwan Jan 25 He turned himself I i senior resident agent in Burling- her death certificate says she died of a bruise in to police there Feb 8 offer learn- ly JtA ton US marshals are expected to to the brain blunt trauma to the head and a ing his passport had been revoked I return Kimmick to Vermont soon depressed skull fracture On Wednesday Taiwanese where he will face second-degree She died within minutes of receiving her police took William Kimmick to a murder charges injuries said the certificate which was US registered Guam-bound air- William Kimmick had moved signed by Vermont Chief Medical Examin- liner romimcK jnt0 the yvery er Paul Morrow Once on board Kimmick was placed Stable Road apartment in Bethel where his Kimmick died on or about Jan 20 but her under arrest by FBI agents and handcuffed his ex-wife was living with their two young body was not discovered until Jam 23 She Kimmick also faces a federal charge of sons License ofWidely Used Vt Midwife Suspended Montpelier (ap) The state has sum- Markowitz said Devers-Scott lias one of the marily suspended the license of a Mendon larger midwife practices in Vermont and has Vt midwife after one of the babies she clients in New York and New Hampshire helped deliver died and another suffered Devers-Scott had until midnight Friday to serious brain damage tell her clients that her license has been sum- Officials allege Roberta Rose Devers- marily suspended Markowitz said She said Scott' 40 did not follow state rules on mid- that no criminal charges had been filed wifery or failed to properly treat two women against Devers-Scott whose babies she helped deliver in January Devers-Scott must undergo a full hearing State officials did not name either of the in front of an administrative lawjudge on the women who live in Pittsford Vt and Rut- charges against her Markowitz said land The Pittsford baby suffers from Markowitz urged patients hypoxic brain according to offi- to contact her office to learn more about the cuds and the Rutland baby died The cause charges against the midwife -of death is still under investigation Information can be found on the Internet Vermont Secretary erf State Deborah at 0 Selected Winter OFF Clothing WILD GAME DINNER By the'Meriden Fire DepL March 6 5-7pm KUA Dining Hal Adults $13 ages 4-10 $7 under 4 yr $3 Calf now for tickets 603-469-3334 Tickets at the door after Clearance All Winter Sleepwear 30-50 OFF Rememberance Fme lingerie sleepwear Hanover 643-1608 on the Green Parents appreciation reward Kids eat free Sundays 4 7 pm Loves Familiesl TONIGHT Famous Roast Beef Supper Harttand Congregational (Brick) Church Roast Beef Family Style Homemade Rods and Pies 5-7PM 1 AdultS850 I2andundBrS5PiBschooiaraS3 EARN $5000: Participate In legal Group" on Saturday March 6 2004 from 9:30 AM until PM Must have a valid driver's license and be over the age of 18 To be held at Law Office In Orford NH Please call Linda at (603) 353-4000 ElliStarr PowerHouse Mall 298-8699 INDOOR YARD SALE SUN 222 8AM-4PM AT NORTHERN LIGHTS GYMNASTICS OLCOTT RD WILDER VT Hartford Youth LaCrosse Club needs coaches for the middle school girts team for the upcoming season (April and May) Please call: (802) 296-2266 West Lebanon Supply 6th Annual Wild Bird Seminar Thurs F6t 26 6:00 pm Door prizes Refreshments RSVP (603)198-8600 THE DOLMA LADY Free Upper WSayDaiivwy siuffad grape leaves spinacti pia mouMaka lasagne chicken paimeaan baMava flogeraa kalaM tM 603-523-7264 b70Onatoeronet AROUND THE CLOCK CHILDCARE ACCEPTING ALL AGES FOR WEEKDAYS NITES A WEEKENOSI 802-296-3014 GRANTHAM INDOOR Adult Coed Soccer Tuesdays for beginnereltttia experience Non-aggressive casual gemee (603)865-9800 4.