PINKHAM NOTCH — A crime podcast from Quebec is taking a fresh look at the unsolved 2001 murder of Canadian hiker Louise Chaput in the White Mountains.
Boris Proulx of the podcast “Syntheses” was in the Berlin-Gorham area last week to trace Chaput’s steps and talk to locals about the case.
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