LONDONDERRY – A man fatally injured his 46-year-old wife and then fled to southern Massachusetts where he committed suicide, police said last night.
A car belonging to Binh Vernet, 48, was found in Rehoboth, Mass., last evening. A search of the area turned up Vernet's body, the New Hampshire Attorney General's office said last night. There was no word on the manner of suicide.
Police said the assault happened at at 4 Fiddler's Ridge Road, a seven-home cul-de-sac located off Adams Road, in a home shared by Vernet and his wife, Suzanne, and their four children.
The Attorney General's office said Suzanne Vernet was unconscious and severely injured by what they called "blunt force trauma." She was taken to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston where she died last night, authorities said.
Londonderry police said they were called via 911 to the Vernets' home about 9:10 p.m. by a juvenile caller.
Binh Vernet then became the subject of a daylong manhunt, Londonderry Police Chief Bill Hart said. That search ended last evening in Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will be performing autopsies on Suzanne and Binh Vernet to determine the precise causes of death.
Hart said the couple's four children were safe and staying with family.
Throughout the day, police tape criss-crossed the driveway of the home and a police cruiser sat in front of the house.
Town Councilor Kathy Wagner and School Board Chairman Steve Young, who live directly across the street at 7 Fiddlers Ridge Road, said that while they did not know the family, the Vernets were active in the community through football, hockey, dance and other clubs.
Vernet's last known place of employment was as quality assurance director at P.D. Circuits, a Hampstead manufacturing company. A call to P.D. Circuits was not returned.
"Police were on the street through the night, and they are still here, in fact, and it is very comforting to know they are there," Wagner said. "We were very, very impressed with the professionalism they showed throughout the incident last night. (Londonderry Officer) John (Perry) was here maybe two minutes after the call, and there was an ambulance at the end of the street a few minutes after that."
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