Investigation renews interest in Curtis Pishon case

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No information on an investigation of the disappearance of Curtis Pishon will be released, according to the attorney general's office, unless there is an arrest in the case.

No arrests had been made by Thursday afternoon, said Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeff Strelzin, chief of the homicide unit in Concord.

Unless an arrest is made, Strelzin said results of the Wednesday, Aug. 15 investigation in Seabrook will not be made public. Asked if the case was considered a homicide, Strelzin said it was a "law enforcement investigation."

"Obviously, this individual has never been found," Strelzin said. "One result is that he is missing due to criminal involvement."

This past July 4 marked the seventh anniversary of Pishon's disappearance.

Pishon, who would be 48, worked for the Reliable Security Guard Agency at Venture Seabrook, a manufacturer of automobile parts.

The 5-foot-9, 165-pound security guard went to work at 11 p.m. on July 4, 2000. He was last seen by a supervisor around 3:15 a.m. By the time Pishon's relief reported for duty between 4 and 6 a.m., he had disappeared.

The case has remained opened, with little new information released by authorities.

On Aug. 15, Seabrook, N.H. State Police and the K-9 unit and Connecticut State Police went to Veterans Memorial Field off South Main Street in Seabrook to follow leads in an investigation later confirmed to be related to Pishon's disappearance.

Police are not saying what, if anything, was found at the ballfield or the nature of their leads.

"What they're doing is following up on an old case," N.H. State Police Field Area Commander Mike Hambrook said last week. "Seabrook and state police received information they wanted to follow up on. We have some new leads, the investigation is still ongoing. It's still a missing person's case and is still being taken seriously."

Hambrook declined to elaborate on why Connecticut police were involved.

Seabrook Sgt. Mike Gallagher confirmed this week police had received information from "a few sources." But, police are not commenting on whether there is a suspect in the case.

Seabrook police, the N.H. State Police Major Crimes Unit and the New Hampshire attorney general's office are involved in the investigation.

Pishon's parents, Astrid and Nicholas Pishon, who live in Hopkinton, recently said they live with "a constant heartache" seven years after their son disappeared.

Nicholas Pishon said this week he was not informed of the new leads regarding his son's disappearance.

"We hope they'll be able to bring this to a successful conclusion," he said.

Seven years ago, Seabrook police searched Venture and found only a vandalized vending machine and a kicked-in door. Inside the guard shack were Pishon's personal belongings: His lunch, contact lens case and solution, cigarettes and lighter.

But there were no clues as to what happened to Pishon, a former Army soldier and 10-year Concord Police Department officer whose diagnosis of multiple sclerosis ended that career in 1994.

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