MANCHESTER — A man who has served 22 years in prison for the murder a local teen is scheduled to be released on parole on Friday.
Timothy Eldridge, then 20, murdered Travis Wiggin, 15, in Chocorua on a July night in 1988. Eldridge was sentenced to 25 years in prison to life for second-degree murder. However, he has only served 22 years because a Superior Court judge suspended three years for good behavior in a hearing in February of 2009.
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