Above, likeness of vehicle driven by Dustin Mark Duren, a 2017 Subaru Impreza 4 door color White with NH Veteran registration V69023.
UPDATE: At 10:30 a.m. Attorney General John Formella’s spokesman Mike Garrity confirmed that the two missing children are safe in Keene and their father Dustin Mark Duren is with police. Story will be updated when more information is available. Thanks all for your help sharing story.
By NANCY WEST, InDepthNH.org
BERLIN – Police are investigating the suspicious death of a woman in Berlin and issued an Amber Alert issued for two missing and endangered children who were last seen with their biological father Thursday night at 8 p.m.
Attorney General John M. Formella said on Feb. 29 at about 10:30 p.m. the New Hampshire State Police and the Berlin Police Department responded to an apartment located at 1063 Main Street in Berlin and found the body of a deceased female identified as Caitlyn Naffziger, 31.
An Amber Alert was issued asking for the public’s assistance in locating the following missing and endangered children:
Elowyn Duren, 4, is 3 feet tall, weighs 30 pounds and has blonde hair and blue eyes.
Vaelyn Duren is 1, weighs 20 pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes.
The children were last seen in Berlin on Thursday Feb. 29 at approximately 8 p.m. with their biological father, Dustin Mark Duren.
Duren, 37, is described as being 5’10”, weighing 180 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes, possibly armed and dangerous.
Duren was operating a 2017 Subaru Impreza 4 door color White with NH Veteran registration V69023.
Police ask If anyone sees Duren, the children and or his vehicle, do not approach them and call 911 immediately as Duren possibly may be armed and dangerous.
Anyone with any further non-emergency information is asked to call the Berlin, NH Police Department directly at 603-752-3131 and or the New Hampshire State Police Headquarters Communications at 603-223-4381.
An autopsy has been scheduled by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Concord for this afternoon at 12:30 PM.