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Old 09-13-2010, 06:51 PM   #1
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IN APPRECIATION

Beth Best Upton loves Waterville Valley. This is her legal residence. She has remodeled and lives in one of the original homes of the Valley. Beth votes and registers her car here. She served for many years as a member of the Planning Board. Beth is happiest when she is in the Valley. Her love for this place has been more than requited in recent days.

The people of the Valley have been altogether magnificent in their support of the search for Beth. The Snow's Mountain parking lot has been full every day. To a person the entire community has turned out to help in some way --- as a search volunteer, or with coffee, food and refreshments, with sighting reports or by providing moral support. WV people are noted for their humanity and empathy. Their compassion has been omnipresent throughout the search for Beth.

The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, under the strong leadership and direction of Major Kevin Jordan and Lt. Todd Bogardus coordinated and managed the search for Beth. Search teams composed mostly of volunteers from this region, were directed and controlled from the Department's field headquarters. As many as ten teams were employed. Each team was composed of six to ten members. Using GPS coordinates, these teams were assigned overlapping areas which they crossed and re-crossed, walking abreast often in extremely rugged, heavily-wooded terrain where bushwhacking was required. The volunteers gave hours and hours of their time throughout this long sustained effort. The search was professional and very thorough. The people of New Hampshire have reason to be proud of our Fish and Game Department for the search capacity it demonstrated.

Waterville Valley officials, Chief of Police David Noyes and Fire Chief Chris Hodges, drawing on their local knowledge, made substantial contributions to the search. The ground search was supplemented by canine searches conducted in the night time by New England K-9 using highly trained border collies and German shepherds. Horse patrols were also used to provide a different viewing perspective. The New Hampshire National Guard conducted daily helicopter over-flights of the wooded area at low altitudes at considerable risk to its pilots.

Beth's family on the scene - her daughter, Diane Best of Joshua Tree, California; Fred Upton, her husband, now of Exeter, NH; Katherine Upton Fulford of Denver; Rob and Lori Upton of Lovell, Maine; and John and Annie Upton of Cape Elizabeth, Maine are, and will be, deeply and forever appreciative of all that has or will be done in the search for their dear Beth.

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Frederic K. Upton September 13, 2010
(Beth's 91 year old husband)
.........

85-year old Beth Upton is still missing since going for a walk at about 3-pm, Tuesday, September 7. Here's a quote from today's Union Leader newspaper report: "The case has been entered in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database, and calls to hospitals across New England turned up no information or sightings."
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Old 09-13-2010, 09:31 PM   #2
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I'm at a loss for words for expressing sympathy and comfort to the Upton Family because part of me, the optimistic part, wants to hope for the best for Mrs. Upton and her family. I can't imagine the difficult time that this family must be dealing with right now.

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Old 09-14-2010, 04:37 AM   #3
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My thoughts are with the Upton family. It sounds like the community, local and state agencies are doing great work in trying to locate her.
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Old 09-15-2010, 07:58 AM   #4
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It's not too uncommon to see women of all ages, from maybe 15-90, to go walking, jogging, or bicycling, sometimes alone, on the 4 1/2 mile WV loop that includes an aproximately one mile isolated, woodsie-canopied forested length of the Tripoli Rd. The Tripoli Rd is a ten mile long, Forest Service seasonal road, going from WV to Rt 93-Exit 32 in Woodstock, and the first mile is a bear-right turn off the ski area road, as one heads up to the ski area. I like to pedal my bicycle around the rolling 4 1/2 mile loop and know that there are women, some up in years, who make the walk alone just for the exercise, and that's the way it is.....so I pass them on the opposite side of the road and shout "howdy" as I pedal past....but it always seems to me like they were maybe being too trusting, being on foot and all alone, in that isolated Tripoli Road location...from what I know.... having been held up at gunpoint once myself in Boston.
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Old 09-15-2010, 08:17 AM   #5
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FLL;

Did this woman have any medical issues such as Alzheimers??

Such a tragedy...

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FLL;

Did this woman have any medical issues such as Alzheimers??

Such a tragedy...

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Do not know and hopefully she will turn up safe & sound somewhere soon and it's definately a deeply unhappy situation.

As a sidenote, it appears that Fred Upton's dad, Robert Upton was a U.S. Senator, representing New Hampshire in Washington, in 1953-1954, before losing a primary election to Norris Cotton.

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Do not know and hopefully she will turn up safe & sound somewhere soon and it's definately a deeply unhappy situation.

As a sidenote, it appears that Fred Upton's dad, Robert Upton was a U.S. Senator, representing New Hampshire in Washington, in 1953-1954, before losing a primary election to Norris Cotton.

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If you take a moment to read the link you provided ( www.wvpublicsafety.com ), instead of trying to tie this tragedy into more of your political ramblings, you would be aware that the police report that she suffers from dimentia. Additionally several media sources covering this issue report that she is in the early stages of Alzheimers.
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It's strange that VT seems to have an elderly woman that they believe has been kidnapped. No word on how/why police believe the VT woman was kidnapped, but it seems a bit strange that two elderly women within a few hours of each other have both recently gone missing and cannot be located.

Very well could be a coincidence since clearly VT is not releasing all info, but Sheffield VT is only about an 1.5 hours away that it does make me wonder...

Hopefully both women will be found safe!
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Nothing has been mentioned about this poor woman, in a long time. Was she ever found? FLL, have you heard anything? Have they found her, given up, or still searching?
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She is still missing, and a scaled down search with a few volunteers continues to search on weekends, or something like that? Basically, I do not know?

For about four or five days there was a dark green blackhawk helicopter with red & white red crosses on both sides, equipped with seats bolted to the landing skids. The blackhawk would hover about 200' up, and slowly peruse the rivers, brooks and woods with observers intently looking down into the forests, while seat-belted in the skids seats. It seems like it spent quite some time over the Mad River and Tripoli Rd area. Seeing a blackhawk up-close quickly tells you that it is a much more powerfull and seriously capable helicopter than the copters that get used for traffic reporting and ambulance service.
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I tried a Google search and the last update was September 18, she is still missing.
http://www.londonderrynh.net/?tag=beth-upton

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Today's Sept 28 Union Leader has a page B1 news article of about 20 paragraphs titled "The search after the search" "Missing woman: Diane Best is still looking for her mother, weeks after Beth Upton didn't return for a walk."

Posting a link to the Union Leader article here would be helpfull so can somebody please create a link?


And, her daughter has created www.FindBethUpton.com
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Hopefully this is what the family has been looking for...Unfortunate way for closure, but will be much better than the unknown.

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So's supposedly, her dead body was found something like three miles up the Livermore Rd which is the same 'no fee zone,' freebie cross country groomed and double-tracked cross country ski trail, that gets a lot of local weekday use by old hippies from the surrounding towns looking to save a buck. Could be she was was just think'n ahead to the winter....and tak'n a look-see at the trail without the snow cover.

Losing one's ability to walk is basically a death sentence...and the nursing homes all have residents who would reluctantly agree...so's it's definately better to check out while still being able to walk....and a three mile walk uphill all the way...is no easy walk...than to end up bed ridden in a smelly nursing home.........Amen!
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A sad ending to the story...

May she rest in peace...

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