A Family Surrounded by Murder and Unanswered Questions — True Crime

Lisa Marie Fuqua
True Crime Addiction
5 min readNov 9, 2019

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Do things happen randomly, or are some people drawn to unfortunate events? One family seems to have more than an average share of crimes in their history.

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The Crimes that Might Have Led to Another

1960, the body of Sandra Valade was found. Four years later, in January of 1964, the body of Pamela Mason 14 was found. Both girls had disappeared during snowstorms in Hooksett, New Hampshire.

In both cases, the girls had been raped and murdered and had their personal belongings deliberately placed around town.

Strange Occurrence with a Tipster

The police got a tip from a local woman named Rena Paquette 47. She said she knew who had killed the two girls. But the police never got back to her.

Then early one morning in February, Rena seemed to disappear. Her son Danny had come downstairs for breakfast, expecting to see his mother, but the house was empty.

Danny called his uncle, and the two of them started to search the farm. He was extremely worried about her being outside in the cold because she left her winter coat at the house.

They were out looking for Rena for over an hour. Then they spotted smoke coming…

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Lisa Marie Fuqua
True Crime Addiction

True Crime Writer in Las Vegas. I used to be a Web Developer in the Newsroom, now I spend my time in coffee shops researching murder.