On a summer day, July 25, 1989, 14-year-old Carrie Moss, a Caucasian female, left her New Boston, New Hampshire home on her bicycle. She was headed to Goffstown to go swimming with friends. This was the last time her family would see her alive. At the time of her disappearance, she was described as having a fair complexion, light-brown hair, and blue eyes.
She was wearing stone-washed jeans, a jean jacket, and white high-top sneakers over a black one-piece bathing suit.
Initially, Carrie's disappearance was treated as a runaway case, especially since she had a court date the following day for a minor marijuana charge. Her mother, however, did not officially report her missing for two months, a delay that later became a point of interest for investigators. The family, including her parents Warren and Sally Moss, put up posters and drove local streets searching for any sign of the teenager.
Nearly two years later, on July 18, 1991, a 10-year-old boy discovered skeletal remains in a wooded area off Riverdale Road in New Boston, about two miles from Carrie's home. Through dental records and X-rays, the remains were positively identified as those of Carrie Moss. Due to the advanced state of decomposition, a definitive cause of death could not be determined. Despite this, her death has been treated as a homicide.
Over the years, the investigation into Carrie Moss's death has remained open, becoming a cold case. No arrests have ever been made in connection with her murder. Authorities did investigate a potential link between Carrie's death and Daniel Vandebogart, a man arrested in September 1989 for the murder of another woman, Kimberly Goss. Vandebogart's brother even provided police with a map of areas where Daniel had worked in the vicinity of where Carrie was last seen. Police also looked into a possible connection to the case of another 14-year-old girl, Sonya Moore, who disappeared in November 1989 and was later found murdered. However, no charges have ever been filed against any suspect in Carrie Moss's death.
