The death of a 59-year-old woman from Manchester, N.H., who was found fatally stabbed last week has been ruled a homicide, officials said Monday.
The cause of Laurie MacLellan’s death was multiple stab wounds, according to the deputy chief medical examiner, who performed the autopsy, a statement from the New Hampshire attorney general’s office said.
Robert Eastman, 54, also of Manchester, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. He is currently being held without bail, prosecutors said. It was unclear Monday whether Eastman had hired an attorney to represent him.
Manchester police officers went to a Hanover Street address shortly before 2 a.m. Thursday for a wellness check and found MacLellan with apparent stab wounds to her face and abdomen, according to a statement from the attorney general’s office last week. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Eastman was arrested the same day.
No further information was immediately available.
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