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I WOULD LIKE TO FIRST ACKNOWLEDGE THE GOOD WORK OF LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THIS CASE. THE FBI, THE VERMONT STATE POLICE AND THE ESSEX POLICE DEPARTMENT SHOULD BE COMMENDED FOR THEIR WORK IN THIS CASE.

2. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF BILL AND LORRAINE CURRlER HAS TOUCHED THE

HEARTS OF MANY IN THIS COMMUNITY. THE CURRIERS WERE ACTIVE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMuNITY AND THEY WILL BE MISSED BY MANY.

3. THEIR MURDERS WERE A RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE THAT OCCURRED IN OUR COMMUNITY.

4. THERE IS NOTHING THE CURRIERS DID IN THEIR PERSONAL LIVES THAT

CONTRIBUTED TO THEIR DEATHS. TO OUR KNOWLEDGE, THERE IS NO PRIOR CO:t\TNECTION BETWEEN THE CURRlERS AND THE INDIVIDUAL IN CUSTODY.

5 . INVESTIGATION BEGAN ON 6/9111 WHEN FAMIL Y MEMBERS OF 'BILL AND LORRAINE CURRlER ASKED THE ESSEX POLICE DEPT, TO CHECK ON BILL AND LORRAINE AS NEITHER HAD APPEARED FOR WORK THAT DAY, FAMILY MEMBERS INDICA TED THEY HAD TRIED TO CALL THE HOUSE AND RECEIVED NO ANSWER AND \\lERE ALSO UNABLE TO LEAVE A MESSAGE.

6. EPD WENT TO THEIR HOME, LOCATED AT 8 COLBERT STREET IN ESSEX, AND

FOUND THAT ALL OF THE DOORS TO THE RESIDENCE WERE LOCKED. UPON LOOKING INTO A WINDOW IN THE GARAGE, AN OFFICER WAS ABLE TO SEE THAT THERE WAS NO CAR THERE AND TIMT THE GLASS PORTION OF THE DOOR LEADING FROM THE GARAGE TO THE"KlTCHEN WAS SHATTERED. 7. AT THAT POINT OTHER OFFICERS WERE ASKED TO RESPOND TO THE RESIDENCE. LT. BEAULIEU OF THE EPD ARRIVED AND ENTERED THE GARAGE BY RAISING THE LOWER PORTION OF A GARAGE WINDOW AND SLIPPING OUT THE SCREEN. OFFICERS NOTED THAT THE GLASS IN THE DOOR APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN BROKEN BY AN OBJECT FROM THE DIRECTION OF THE GARAGE GOING INTO THE HOUSE.

8. UPON INSPECTING THE HOME, THE CURRIERS WERE NOT FOUND, NOR WERE
THERE ANY SIGNS OF STRUGGLE. OFFICERS OBSERVED THAT THERE WERE BIRD CAGES IN ONE OF THE ROOMS THAT HAD BEEN COVERED, WHICH WAS THE CURRlERS' PRACTICE TO DO AT NIGHT.

9. OFFICERS FURTHER OBSERVED THAT LORRAINE'S CARDIAC MEDICATIONS AND

BILL'S DIABETES MEDICATIONS WERE STILL IN THE RESIDENCE. OFFICERS ALSO

SAW THAT LORRAINE'S GLASSES AND CONTACT LENSES, WHICH SHE NEEDS TO BE ABLE TO DRIVE, WERE IN THE RESIDENCE. 10.BILL'S WALLET, INCLUDING HIS IDENTIFICATION, WERE FOUND IN THE RESIDENCE. HOWEVER, NEITHER LORRAINE'S PURSE NOR HER WALLET WERE LOCATED IN THE HOME. 11. ALSO MISSING FROM THE HOME WAS LORRAJNE'S GUN, DESCRIBED AS A RUGER SNUB-NOSED .38 CALIBER, THAT SHE KEPT FOR PROTECTION WHEN SHE WENT TO THEIR CAMP IN NORTON, VT. 12.BOTH FAMILY MEMBERS AND POLICE OFFICERS OBSERVED THAT A PHONE LINE RUNNING INTO THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE CURRIER HOME HAD BEEN SEVERED. 13.FAMILY MEMBERS TOLD POLICE THAT BILL AND LORRAINE WERE "HOMEBODIES" WTTH NO CHILDREN AND ARE NOT IN THE BEST OF HEALTH. F AMIL Y MEMBERS FURTHER REP ORTED THAT BILL AND LORRAINE HAD NO ENEMIES AND THERE WERE NO INTERNAL FAMILY DISPUTES. THE FAMILY ALSO TOLD POLICE THAT BILL AND LORRAINE DO NOT TRAVEL OFTEN AND, WHEN THEY DO, ONE WTLL LEAVE AT A TIME SO THAT THE OTHER CAN STAY HOME AND TAKE CARE OF THEIR PETS.

14. UPON CHECKING WITH THE BANK WITH WHICH THE CURRIERS HELD THEIR ACCOUNTS, IT WAS LEARNED THAT THERE HAD BEEN NO ACTIVITY ON THEIR ACCOUNTS SINCE JUNE 7,2011. THESE ACCOUNTS HAVE BEEN MONITORED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS SINCE THE DAY OF BILL AND LORRAINE'S DISAPPEARANCE AND NO ACTIVITY HAS EVER BEEN REPORTED.

1S.IN APRIL, 2012, POLICE RECEIVED AN INVESTIGATIVE LEAD IN THE CASE OF THE
CURRIERS. SINCE RECEIVING THIS INVESTIGATIVE LEAD, SUBSTANTIAL ASPECTS OF THE LEAD HAVE BEEN CORROBORATED BY BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS.

16. THE EVIDENCE NOW ESTABLISHES THAT, ON THE NIGHT OF JUNE 8 - JUNE 9, 2011,
BILL AND LORRAINE CURRIER WERE ABDUCTED FROM THEIR HOME AND MURDERED BY THE PERSON WHO HAD ABDUCTED THEM. 17. THIS CONFIRMATION TODAY THAT THE CURRIERS WERE MURDERED IS A DECLARATION THAT HOPEFULLY WILL SERVE AT LEAST TWO PURPOSES. ONE, THAT SOMEONE IN CUSTODY WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR MURDERS. SECONDLY, THE PROCESS OF GRIEVjJ\JG CAN CONTINUE TO THE NEXT STAGE FOR ALL THOSE THAT KNEW AND LOVED BILL AND LORRAINE CURRlER.

18.THE STATE OF VERMONT WILL MAINTAIN INVOLVEMENT IN THIS INVESTIGATION UNTIL THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR BILL AND LORRAINE CURRIER'S DEATH. 19.1 WILL NOW READ A SHORT STATEMENT BY THE CURRIER FAMILY.