Interesting. I often wonder if Clifton was the one who murdered Russell and his deathbed confession was only partially true. Or maybe Clifton and Robert did it. There is a reason the jury didn't come back to indict Robert. I wonder why. They found the body on Roberts property. It was clear he died of blunt force trauma. Was it an accident then?

Russell Bean, a 26-year-old white man, disappeared from Marlow, New Hampshire, in 1978. Nothing definitive surfaced about his fate for ten years until March 1988, when Clifton Chambers, on his deathbed, named his son Robert Chambers and pointed to a spot on Newell Pond Road as where Bean’s body could be found.

Investigators searched the property owned by Robert Chambers, who served part time as police chief for Marlow and neighboring Gilsum. After digging in an old pig pen, they recovered skeletal remains; an autopsy determined Bean had been killed by blunt force trauma to the head. Robert Chambers was arrested and charged with the murder, and court filings and local reports suggested a possible personal-motive theory involving a love triangle. The case did not result in an indictment by a grand jury and the murder charge was dropped.

Russell Bean’s death remains officially unsolved. Does anyone have information about Bean’s life in Marlow or about the Chambers family that could help clarify what happened?