So over the last week or so, the UNH campus has suffered a huge loss in Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott's death. According to multiple reports, she disappeared last Tuesday night after class in Dover or Portsmouth, then a Dover resident and UNH alum was arrested in connection with her murder. The catch: they still haven't found her body. My questions are: how can they convict this guy of murder when they haven't found her body yet, and what evidence do they have to go on, seeing as he's obviously not telling them where he put her, why would he tell them that he killed her?
This whole case, as tragic as it is already, is even more confusing. When I first heard about it through the campus email alert system, I was shocked. I'm used to seeing emails about reported muggings, fights, and sexual abuse cases, but it's rare that we have a student who goes missing and then is confirmed, but not found, dead within a week. Where are the police and investigators getting their information? I don't mean any disrespect, but they should've found her by now, with an already convicted felon in their custody, he has nothing left to lose. Why not give up the location of the body?
I will keep an eye on this story in case it starts to make sense. I hope they do find her, and soon, so that he family can grieve properly without the uncertainty of whether or not they'll get to bring her home. The way the story was publicized, (first they said she went missing, then they said they were performing searches around Portsmouth, then they said "never mind, there's nothing to see here..." followed by the arrest of Mr. Mazzaglia, then the continued search for her body just after she wasn't officially confirmed dead, etc.), was all wrong. Now that the press and police finally have at least some important facts to this story, I'm hoping they can make better sense of it as the search continues and the convicted confesses.
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