By Nathan Duke
Staff Writer

The body of a 19-year-old woman who was reported missing last fall was found in the Piscataquog River last weekend.

Police identified the body of Sarah Maria Langis of Merrimack upon removing it from the river in the Pinardville section of Goffstown on Saturday, April 9.

The Goffstown Police Department received a call in the midafternoon on Saturday from a Lynchville Park Road resident who had spotted a body in the Piscataquog River. Police, fire and EMS personnel confirmed the body of a deceased female along the shoreline and identification was made through the use of dental records.

Langis was reported missing by her father in November 2004. At the time, she was living with a roommate at the Eastridge condominium complex in Merrimack. After she did not show up for a period of a few days, her roommate contacted the family.

Langis’ name was removed from the National Crime Information Center database in December after her father said he spotted her at a Wal-Mart in Bedford, police said.

Goffstown Police Capt. Glenn DuBois said the case remains under investigation by the department, as well as the Merrimack Police Department and the Hillsborough County Attorney’s Office.

“We have a whole slew of possibilities as to what happened,” he said.

DuBois said Langis’ body was likely in the river for several months, most likely since early winter.

Though an autopsy was performed on Sunday, April 10, DuBois said there are further tests to be done before any definitive answers can be given.

“We are waiting for the medical examiner’s office to do their report,” he said. “They still have to do a toxicology scan to see if any stimulants were involved. A background has to be done prior to the last time she was seen. There are many possibilities as to what could have happened.”