FILE 550 / 30 November 2024 / 73 MIN / express

Kinky Killer Couple

Dover, New HampshireListen

The town

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This is in southeastern New Hampshire, practically Maine; it's in Dover, New Hampshire. about 0:03:24

History, in brief

Town note

Dover was a mill town for years, making textiles like a lot of north-eastern cities.

about 0:04:48

1815

The Dover Cotton Factory started in 1815, bringing cotton up from the south and shipping finished cloth out through the ports to Europe.

about 0:04:59

1827

It was renamed the Cocheco Manufacturing Company in 1827.

about 0:05:20

1828

On December 30th, 1828, about half of the 800 women employed at the mill walked out over lower wages and longer hours, the first women's strike in the United States.

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All 7 history facts

Town note

Dover was a mill town for years, making textiles like a lot of north-eastern cities.

about 0:04:48

1815

The Dover Cotton Factory started in 1815, bringing cotton up from the south and shipping finished cloth out through the ports to Europe.

about 0:04:59

1827

It was renamed the Cocheco Manufacturing Company in 1827.

about 0:05:20

1828

On December 30th, 1828, about half of the 800 women employed at the mill walked out over lower wages and longer hours, the first women's strike in the United States.

about 0:05:39

Town note

It was a huge national producer of textiles until the Depression, when the mills moved south and many businesses closed.

about 0:06:04

Town note

Dover, New Hampshire is the birthplace of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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The figures, as told

Money

Median home value$416,800
Median household income$82,387
All figures and comparisons, as told in 2024

Population

"32,599"

No direction stated.

As told in 2024 about 0:03:48

Median household income

"$82,387"

Comparison: "the average of $69,000". No direction stated.

As told in 2024 about 0:03:55

Median home price

"$416,800"

No direction stated.

As told in 2024 about 0:04:08

The reviews

3.3 / 5 · average of 4

5 stars

“A quaint New England town with Victorian style homes, great pizza, excellent schools, good fishing and canoeing, and Portsmouth only 15 minutes away.”
about 0:06:35

4 stars

“A lifelong resident calls it one of a kind with a charm of its own; easy to leave but always come back, and the people are not nice but love you deep down.”
about 0:07:30

3 stars

“They need to stop building brand new houses where people do not want them.”
about 0:08:11

1 star

“Absolutely a hellhole: the state is beautiful but the people are not, outsiders are treated badly and even the police gaslight you; the worst city the reviewer has ever lived in.”
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The story

Elizabeth Marriott, known as Lizzie, was 19 in the autumn of 2012 and in her sophomore year at the University of New Hampshire, studying marine biology. She had grown up in Massachusetts, loved turtles and other small creatures, and worked at a Target store near the campus. She lived with an aunt and uncle close to the university; her parents, Bob and Melissa Marriott, stayed in Massachusetts.

On Tuesday 9 October 2012 she planned to attend a laboratory class that ended at nine and then visit a new friend from Target. At 8.55 p.m. she texted a friend to say where she was going and told her aunt and uncle she would be home by midnight or half past. She left her 2001 Mazda Tribute in a student lot on campus.

They had met in the summer of 2011 through the local theatre scene and appeared together that July in a play called Last Rites.

While Lizzie sat on the floor watching the film, he put on black gloves behind her, pulled a rope over her neck and strangled her.

Roberta and her boyfriend Paul Hickok arrived shortly after 11 p.m. and found Lizzie's body on the floor beside the bed. Roberta cut a plastic bag from Lizzie's face with a box cutter and saw that she was blue. The couple left without calling 911.

They carried her, wrapped in a tarp and stuffed in a suitcase, to an overlook and pushed her over the cliff; she fell 35 feet onto rocks at low tide. They left the car at the university and walked six miles home.

On Thursday 11 October, after two nights without word, the family reported Lizzie missing. Her car was found on the campus and secured as evidence. Police found men's underwear, black gloves and Lizzie's sweatshirt in a dumpster behind the apartment, but her body was never recovered.

The case

Murder of Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Marriott

Victims

Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Marriott (19). University of New Hampshire marine biology student; worked at Target

Accused and outcomes

As told in the episode, on 30 November 2024.

Accused

Accused

Outcome

Other people

Nathaniel 'Nate' McNeil. Target co-worker and friend of Lizzie and
Roberta Gherkin. friend, called to the apartment, found the body and cut the bag from Lizzie's face
Paul Hickok. Roberta's boyfriend, went with her to the apartment
Bob Marriott. Lizzie's father
Melissa Marriott. Lizzie's mother
Tony. Lizzie's uncle, whose home she lived in
Brittany. Lizzie's long-term girlfriend
Katherine. ex-girlfriend from high school and college

The timeline

  1. 2002 and his then-girlfriend Katherine move to New Hampshire.about 0:49:07
  2. the summer of 2011 and meet through the local theatre scene.about 0:23:22
  3. July 2011 and appear together in the play Last Rites.about 0:30:08
  4. February 2012 drops out of high school in her senior year.about 0:21:55
  5. August 25, 2012 texts instructing her to choose a female friend to offer to him.about 0:38:29
  6. October 9, 2012 At 8.55 p.m. Lizzie texts a friend to say she is visiting a new friend, and tells her aunt and uncle she will be home by 12 or 12.30.about 0:16:01
  7. October 9, 2012 Lizzie arrives at and apartment at 8.51 p.m. ( and 's apartment)about 0:58:37
  8. October 9, 2012 The three watch a film and play strip poker; Lizzie refuses suggestions of kissing and sex. ( and 's apartment)about 0:58:43
  9. October 9, 2012 puts on gloves, pulls a rope around Lizzie's neck from behind and strangles her, then rapes her. ( and 's apartment)about 1:00:01
  10. October 9, 2012 At 10.49 p.m. telephones her friend Roberta Gherkin and asks her to come over. ( and 's apartment)about 0:40:09
  11. October 9, 2012 Shortly after 11 p.m. Roberta Gherkin and Paul Hickok arrive and find Lizzie's body on the floor beside the bed. ( and 's apartment)about 0:40:27

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