A girl goes to visit friends but never arrives In the summer of 1989, fourteen-year-old Carrie Moss, a Caucasian female, was living in the small town of New Boston, New Hampshire. On July 25th, she told her family she was heading to nearby Goffstown to meet up with some friends. It was the last time they would see her alive. For two years, her whereabouts remained a mystery, a period of agonizing uncertainty for her family and community.
The hope of her safe return was tragically extinguished on July 18, 1991, when her skeletal remains were discovered in a wooded area of New Boston. Due to the advanced state of decomposition, a definitive cause of death could not be determined; however, investigators have consistently treated her case as a homicide.
The investigation into Carrie's death has been a long and frustrating one, marked by a lack of concrete evidence and a series of lingering questions. At the time of her disappearance, there were initial thoughts that she may have run away, a theory that likely delayed the initial intensity of the search. Her case is considered a cold case, one of many that law enforcement continues to revisit in the hopes that new information or advancements in forensic technology might finally provide a breakthrough. Over the years, investigators have explored various leads and potential connections to other crimes in the region, but no definitive answers have emerged.
One name that has been mentioned in connection with Carrie's case is Daniel Vandebogart, a man who was a suspect in the murder of another woman around the same time. Authorities looked into a possible link between Vandebogart and Carrie, but no charges were ever filed in her death. Another avenue of investigation involved a possible connection to the unsolved murder of another fourteen-year-old girl, Sonya Moore, who also disappeared in 1989. Despite these and other efforts by law enforcement, no arrests have ever been made in the death of Carrie Moss. Her killer remains at large, and the case continues to cast a long shadow over the community, a painful reminder of a young life cut short and a family still waiting for justice.
