Overview
- Attorney General John Formella announced that the New Hampshire Cold Case Unit and Concord police have identified Ernest Theodore Gable as responsible and will classify the case as solved.
- DNA from semen on towels collected at the scene matched Gable, a statistical match reported by the state’s forensic review.
- An FBI microscopic hair analysis in 1975 incorrectly excluded Gable, creating an evidentiary barrier that halted a planned prosecution until the technique was later discredited.
- Investigators noted corroborating evidence from 1975, including Gable’s fingerprints on Lord’s window and witness accounts that Lord feared her neighbor.
- Gable was stabbed to death in Los Angeles in 1987, so no charges will be filed; officials said they would have pursued first-degree murder if he were alive.