Fourteen-year-old Carrie Moss left her New Boston, New Hampshire home on her bicycle on July 25, 1989, headed to Goffstown to go swimming with friends. She was last seen wearing stone-washed jeans, a jean jacket, and white high-top sneakers over a black one-piece bathing suit. At the time she disappeared she had a fair complexion, light-brown hair, and blue eyes; her family did not report her missing officially until two months later, a delay investigators later noted.
On July 18, 1991, a 10-year-old boy found skeletal remains in woods off Riverdale Road in New Boston, about two miles from Carrie’s home. Dental records and X-rays positively identified the remains as Carrie Moss. The body was too decomposed to establish a definitive cause of death, but authorities have treated the death as a homicide.
Investigators explored leads linking Carrie’s case to other crimes. Police checked a possible connection to Daniel Vandebogart, arrested in September 1989 for the murder of Kimberly Goss, and at one point received a map from Vandebogart’s brother showing areas where Daniel had worked near where Carrie was last seen. A possible link to the November 1989 disappearance and murder of 14-year-old Sonya Moore was also examined. No arrests or charges have been made in Carrie’s case, which remains open and cold.
Did anyone in the area know Carrie’s routine, the route she might have taken toward Goffstown, or remember seeing her bicycle that day?