Crime & Safety
New Details Emerge in Murder of Lizzi Marriott
Foster's Daily Democrat and WBZ-TV reported the news today.
Foster's Daily Democrat is reporting that 19-year-old University of New Hampshire student and Westborough resident Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott was killed during a "sexual encounter."
The Dover, NH, newspaper did not name its source, saying only, "Foster's has learned the murder of University of New Hampshire student Elizabeth Marriott occurred during a sexual encounter." Seth Mazzaglia of Dover, NH, has been charged with second degree murder in connection with Marriott's death on Oct. 9.
WBZ-TV is also reporting this afternoon that police are investigating claims that Marriott was killed during a "group sex encounter" with Mazzaglia and another woman.
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The Daily Mail is citing a law enforcement agent as saying a sexual enounter played a part in the murder.
Calls to the attorney general's office today have not been returned. Officials are not commenting on whether the reported sexual encounter was voluntary or involuntary.
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Meanwhile, the search for Marriott's body continues in the waters off Peirce Island in Portsmouth.
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