Three years after Louise Chaput was brutally murdered, her friends and family still search for answers.
No one has ever been charged in the death of the Canadian hiker whose body was found Thanksgiving afternoon 2001 about 200 yards off the Glen Boulder trail in Pinkham Notch.
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