Christina Lunceford.

MUS-2026-291

Index entry. Case details compiled from public reporting; our researchers have not verified this file yet.

Christina Lunceford, 20, disappeared from her new apartment in Nashua, New Hampshire, in early August 2004. Her regular calls to her mother stopped soon after her sister visited her there on August 2. On April 9, 2005, foragers found her remains in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, wrapped in a comforter inside a plastic bag near the Merrimack River. Dental records confirmed the remains were hers. The medical examiner could not determine a cause of death, but investigators treated the case as a homicide. No arrest has been reported.

1. Jul 30, 2004

   Lunceford told her parents she and her boyfriend had signed a lease on a new apartment.

2. Aug 2, 2004

   Her sister visited her at the new apartment at 58 Vine Street, Nashua. Soon after, her regular calls to her mother stopped.

3. Apr 9, 2005

   Remains were found by foragers in Tyngsborough, in a partially torn black plastic bag, wrapped in a reversible comforter, about 30 feet from the road near the Merrimack River.

4. Apr 11, 2005

   Dental records confirmed the remains were Lunceford's. The medical examiner could not determine cause of death.

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