An elderly woman is found strangled to death Madlyn Crouse, a 74-year-old woman, was found dead in her Main Street apartment in Nashua, New Hampshire, in the overnight hours of February 27–28, 1976; investigators determined she had been strangled.
She had lived at a Main Street address in the city and, according to contemporaneous death notices, died in Nashua on that late-winter weekend, with services held days later at St. Patrick's Church.
From the outset, detectives treated her death as a homicide.
Over the years, officials reaffirmed the timeline—late on February 27 or early February 28—and kept the case on the state's list of unsolved killings.
The investigation faced a devastating setback when evidence from the case was destroyed sometime in the late 1980s, a loss that was later documented by police and the attorney general's office in subsequent reviews.
Authorities have said there were potential suspects identified in the aftermath, and decades later investigators indicated they believed they knew who killed her, but the remaining record was not strong enough to bring charges.
No arrests have ever been made, and her death remains an unsolved homicide with the case still open and soliciting information from the public.
