BREAKING NEWS Update April 2nd, 2008

http://www.reformer.com/ci_8779149?source=most_viewed

Sister thinks septic system may hold clues
By NICOLE ORNE, Reformer Staff

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Wednesday, April 2
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- A recent search of the former home of Tina and Bethany Sinclair may have provided some new clues into their disappearance seven years ago, according to a relative of the women.

Police investigating the disappearance of the mother and daughter refused to comment, but Tina's sister, Sharon Garry, believes there may have been some leads.

"I know that they found some things, I just don't know exactly what they found," she said. "They took some things out, so to speak, but I don't know what."

...but the New Hampshire Attorney General's office said it considers Tina's boyfriend at the time, Eugene Van Bowman Jr., "a person of interest" in the case, and the homicide unit is handling all public comments.

Assistant Attorney General Jane Young refused to give further comment...

New Hampshire State Trooper Joe DiRusso also refused to comment beyond the press release...

Garry said police were down at the home searching again Monday. The press release only reports a search for Thursday and Friday of last week.

The hardest part for her was being at the site when workers uncovered an underground space built out of cinder blocks...

"They were tearing up the foundation and pushed the lid off a concrete box underground. As soon as they did, there was a foul odor. There was water in it, it looked relatively new," Garry said. "What possible purpose could this have?"

...Tyler Excavating owner Karey Tyler said it was in fact a part of the leach field. "It's a part for the waste water to go into and naturally leach out of."

He said this would account for the odor.

Garry hoped the police would have a chance to search this box, but said it was removed before they arrived again.

Tyler said the box was empty and the police already had the opportunity to search near the box.

"They had the dogs pretty close to it... They ran the dogs around it. The box was empty."

Sharon's Personal Comment on Above, Published Article, April 2nd, 2008:

The Police did NOT have a chance to run the dogs all around the underground box. The police were not on the site when it was uncovered. They left before the demolition was complete. The box, made of concrete blocks, was buried underneath the concrete slab that the garage was built on and was no where near a septic tank/system. I called the police when the box was uncovered by Tyler's trucks and they were there twenty minutes later. Tyler's crew was gone and the ground was leveled at that point. I am not happy about the way this was handled, nor by the way the Police communicated or lacked in communication with the family, as if they would communicate with us, we could share information that may be valuable to the investigation, but they refiuse to hear us. That is the reason we have taken our own course of action and hired our own investigators and search teams. www.missingtinaandbeth.org