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MANCHESTER — The remains of a Manchester woman last seen here in 1984 — but never reported missing until last year — have been identified by authorities in Tennessee who say she was found murdered in 1985.

Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald, Manchester Police Chief Carlo Capano, and David Rausch, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations, said in a joint news release that the remains have been identified as Elizabeth “Liz” Lamotte of Manchester.

According to the AG’s office, Lamotte had been placed at the Youth Development Center (YDC) in Manchester, but left on a furlough to Gill Stadium on Nov. 22, 1984, and never returned. She was 17.


On July 27, 1985 — Lamotte’s 18th birthday — her case was discharged from YDC. She had never returned to the facility.

According to the AG’s office, Lamotte was not reported as a missing person to Manchester police until 2017. Word of her disappearance came in as a tip following a January 2017 news conference by AG MacDonald, the NH State Police Cold Case Unit and Manchester police regarding a missing persons case in Allenstown.

Information was released regarding the suspect in the murders, Bob Evans, and his wife, known as Elizabeth Evans, who were living in Manchester in the early 1980s. Authorities requested help from the public in identifying Elizabeth Evans.

One of the tips received by the New Hampshire State Police Cold Case Unit was that an Elizabeth Lamotte was missing from Manchester in the mid-80s, and the tipster believed she could be the Elizabeth Evans mentioned by authorities.

The investigation “determined that Elizabeth Lamotte had no connection to Bob and Elizabeth Evans,” said Senior Assistant Attorney General Susan Morrell. The tip was relayed to Manchester police. Detectives spoke with YDC personnel, family members and friends of Lamotte, who all confirmed she had been missing since her furlough from YDC on Nov. 22, 1984.

Manchester police then entered Lamotte’s information into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) as a missing person, listing her as 17 years old, standing 5 feet 5, weighing 110-125 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes.

As part of the missing person investigation, two of Lamotte’s brothers provided DNA samples that were submitted to NamUs, a national information clearinghouse and resource center for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases across the country.

On Tuesday, the UNT Center for Human Identification notified Manchester police they had matched the Lamotte brothers’ DNA to the remains of a woman found murdered in Tennessee in 1985. The DNA was tested using mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is inherited from the person’s mother.

According to the AG’s office, the genetic data obtained from the human remains was consistent with what one would expect to find in a biological sibling of the Lamotte brothers. “The likelihood of a match was determined to be 194.4 million times more likely than the unidentified remains originating from another individual in the United States,” the AG’s office stated.


According to Detective Brandon Elkins of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations, the body — now identified as Lamotte — was found in the city of Greenville, in Green County, Tenn., along Interstate 81, on April 14, 1985. She had no identification on or near her body.

An autopsy determined her cause of death to be blunt force trauma to the head, and that she had likely been dead for two to three weeks.

Tennessee authorities said while investigators there searched national databases in an attempt to identify the remains, it wasn’t until the Lamotte brothers’ DNA samples were submitted to the same database that NamUs discovered the match.

According to the AG’s office, members of the Lamotte family have been notified that Elizabeth’s remains have been located.
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