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From the Citizen

Police converge where May murder occurred
Wolfeboro:


Tuesday, October 27, 2009

State police and local police as well as officers from the Carroll County Sheriff's Department converged on a north Wolfeboro neighborhood Monday afternoon, forming a loose perimeter around the home where a mother of five was murdered on Mother's Day.

New Hampshire Associate Attorney General Jeff Strelzin said that the incident did not involve the murder of Stacey Burns. But he would not comment further, other than to say no arrests were made.

To date no one has been charged in connection with the murder of Burns, an elementary school nurse and single mother.

State Police and Carroll County Sheriff's officials referred all comments to the Wolfeboro Police Department. Wolfeboro Police dispatch refused comment and referred all questions to Lt. Dean Rondeau, who it said would be unavailable "for some time." Several attempts to reach him were unsuccessful.

Unconfirmed reports from witnesses at the scene said that, "some kind of threat" was called in to police. WMUR television reported that police were called in at approximately 10:30 a.m. to perform a welfare check.

Two State Police and two local police cruisers were seen parked at either edge of the Burns' property on North Main Street at approximately 1:45 p.m. Monday. Local police and officers from the Carroll County Sheriff's Department were also parked approximately 100 yards away on Filter Bed Road. Witnesses reported that police were also stationed at a church yard approximately 100 yards away as well as on Pleasant and Lucas streets, which border the Burns' home from behind.

About 30 minutes after arriving at the Burns' home, all police vehicles headed rapidly up Main Street and converged in a large dirt turnaround area, where officers could be seen outside their vehicles huddled in conversation. Within 20 minutes all police vehicles were gone from that area.