most pertinent of what little info i have seen so far. very tight-lipped investigation.
i would like to know their lifestyle...why THEM? or was it random? from what i have read, they were a respectable couple.



Essex Police Chief Brad LaRose



Burlington Free Press

ESSEX — The Essex Selectboard has approved spending up to $15,000 for advanced DNA testing in the case of a missing couple, William and Lorraine Currier, who disappeared last month.

Essex acting Police Chief Brad LaRose declined to say whether it was blood, hair or some other evidence that needed to have advanced DNA testing.
“As time goes on I think I will be able to say more about what that is for,” LaRose told the Burlington Free Press on Tuesday.

LaRose also confirmed that a Massachusetts State Police dog trained in locating bodies was brought in Thursday to assist in the investigation.
William Currier, 49, who works at the University of Vermont, and his wife, Lorraine Currier, 55, who works at Fletcher Allen Health Care, were last seen at their Colbert Street home at about 7 p.m. June 8. When they failed to appear for work the next morning, a relative called Essex police about 10 a.m. Their car was found two days later about three-quarters of a mile away at an apartment complex at 241 Pearl St.

Police said this week they suspect foul play.

LaRose said the needed types of DNA tests are not offered through the Vermont Department of Public Safety lab. LaRose would not say which lab is doing the work, but because the testing is occurring out of state, the town is expected to pay for the time necessary to complete the work.

Some preliminary testing has been done, LaRose said.
“The secondary stages will be done in the near future,” he said. “We hope to hear back within perhaps two to three weeks. I don’t know; it may be longer.”


WPTZ

ESSEX, Vt. -- Several law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, conducted an organized search for Bill and Lorraine Currier on Thursday, hoping for a break in the case of the missing couple.

Bill and Lorraine Currier, of Essex, were reported missing in June after both failed to show up for work. Since then, Essex police said they had searched extensively in the one-mile radius around the couple's home, including the apartment complex on Route 15 where the couple's car was found abandoned.

Police told NewsChannel 5 there are 40 miles unaccounted for on the Currier’s car so the search area has been pushed out to a 20-mile radius. The search focused on the side of roads and highways where police said bodies could be potentially exposed.

"It's really impossible to determine (if the couple is deceased). ... The longer the Curriers are missing, the more concerned I am that they may not be alive," Essex Police Capt. Brad LaRose said.

Vermont State Police, Burlington police, South Burlington police, Williston police, The FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and New England K-9 assisted the Essex Police Department in Thursday’s search.



i don't trust these type of "eyewitness" accounts.

Londonderry News

Sketch of the Person Of Interest. Do you recognize this man?
If so, please contact Essex Police Department at 802-878-8331, your local police or 9-1-1
Police have released a sketch of a man who might have been driving the missing couple, Bill and Lorraine Currier’s car after the pair vanished last week.
A police composite shows a man with scraggly-looking shoulder-length hair, a beard, wide-set eyes and a high forehead. Authorities say the drawing resulted from a person who “may have seen a male subject operating the green Saturn registered to William and Lorraine Currier” last Thursday.

The possible sighting came a day after the Curriers reportedly were last week, and the day they were reported missing to police. The Saturn was found the next day, Friday, in an apartment complex’s parking lot less than a mile from the couple’s Colbert Street home.

Police on Tuesday also said investigators “received information from the family about the possibility of a handgun in the home.” Authorities confirmed that the Curriers had purchased a gun “some time ago.” A statement Tuesday evening from Essex police did not specify whether the gun was located inside the home or whether the weapon is being sought.

UPDATE: June 13, 2011

The vehicle of Bill and Lorraine Currier was located, however, the married couple are still missing. Bill Currier is in need of his insulin and his supply is at their home. Lorraine also needs medication for an unspecified condition. The couple’s dark green Saturn sedan was found backed-up near a Dumpster at the 241 Pearl St. apartment complex about three-quarters of a mile from the Colbert Street residence in the Susie Wilson Road section of Essex.
Saturday, residents of the apartments said police removed the Dumpster late Friday night. Several residents said they had noticed the dark-green car Thursday or Friday, because it was parked in a little-used spot.

no news to be found anywhere. some hunter will stumble across bones one day i think.

this reminds me of a florida case, couple this age taken into woods and buried alive.

a young woman is on death row for that case.

Quote:Police told NewsChannel 5 there are 40 miles unaccounted for on the Currier’s car so the search area has been pushed out to a 20-mile radius. The search focused on the side of roads and highways where police said bodies could be potentially exposed.

sifting for bones etc.




WPTZ
ESSEX, Vt.
Midway through a second day digging up an empty lot in Essex, police halted their heavy equipment to bring in a tent and tarps to examine within the hole.
Police began work at the site on Route 15 early Thursday. There was an abandoned house on the property that neighbors say was demolished last Fall.

Police confirmed that the site is connected to the case of missing Essex Junction couple Bill and Lorraine Currier but gave little other information.