VT - David Auclair, 45, fatally shot, found on Hinesburg trailhead, July 2019 *wife arrested*

[StayingAnon]

Vermont State Police resumed their investigation Friday into the “suspicious” death of a man, whose body was found at a trailhead in Hinesburg late Thursday night.

The Hinesburg Police Department discovered a deceased person at the parking lot for the LaPlatte Headwaters Town Forest trails on Gilman Road at approximately 10:40 p.m.


Due to lack of lighting, the scene was secured to resume the investigation during daylight on Friday.

Gilman Road where the incident occurred is heavily wooded, and located near the Cedar Knoll Country Club. Half a dozen police vehicles and a red investigation tent were visible on the scene at approximately 11:30 a.m. on Friday.

The victim’s identity is being withheld until the family is notified.

Gilman Road is closed to traffic during the investigation.

Vermont State Police spokesperson Adam Silverman said police will release more information once it becomes available.

“At this point detectives are treating the death of the male victim as suspicious,” Silverman said in a post on Twitter Friday morning.



https://vtdigger.org/2019/07/12/police-investigating-body-found-in-hinesburg/

 

[StayingAnon]

HINESBURG, Vt. (WCAX) Police have released new details about a suspicious death investigation in Hinesburg.

Investigators say the victim is David Auclair, 45, of Williston, and they say he was shot multiple times. They have no suspects at this time.

Auclair's body was found just before 11 p.m. Thursday and the Vermont State Police crime scene unit was at the scene for most of the day Friday.

A neighbor our Dom Amato spoke with said the police presence was very unusual in their somewhat quiet neighborhood.

"Never in my backyard, they say," Dianne Deforge said.

Deforge walked outside her home on Gilman Road Friday morning to find a crime scene just a few hundred feet away at the trailhead parking lot of the LaPlatte Headwaters Town Forest.

"It's a little scary," she said.

Deforge says her husband said he believed he heard multiple gunshots Thursday night.

"He said they were in succession, fast," she said.

Deforge says the town forest along the LaPlatte River is visited for school trips and is utilized by many residents.

Police ID man found dead in Hinesburg; victim shot

 

[StayingAnon]

Here's the road he was found dead on.
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[StayingAnon]

Here's the location where the man lived. Not that far from the murder site.

Imgur

 

[SeesSeas]

VSP Press Releases: UPDATE: Vermont State Police continue to investigate suspicious death in Hinesburg
July 12, 2019
UPDATE: Vermont State Police continue to investigate suspicious death in Hinesburg
STATE OF VERMONT
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
VERMONT STATE POLICE
NEWS RELEASE

CASE#: 19A103286
RANK/TROOPER FULL NAME: Detective Lt. J.P. Schmidt
STATION: Vermont State Police-Williston
CONTACT#: 802-878-7111
DATE/TIME: 10:40 p.m. Thursday, July 11, 2019
INCIDENT LOCATION: Gilman Road, Hinesburg, VT
VIOLATION: Death Investigation
VICTIM: David Auclair
AGE: 45
CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: Williston, Vermont

SUMMARY OF INCIDENT
***Update, 4:25 p.m. Friday, July 12, 2019***

The Vermont State Police is continuing to investigate the suspicious death of a man whose body was found late Thursday, July 11, 2019, at the LaPlatte Headwaters Town Forest trailhead parking lot. The victim has been identified as David Auclair, 45, of Williston. Preliminary investigation indicates he was shot multiple times.

The investigation began when the Hinesburg Police Department responded at about 10:40 p.m. Thursday to multiple reports of gunshots in the area of the trailhead. When Hinesburg police arrived, they located a body later identified as that of Mr. Auclair near his vehicle, a gray 2017 GMC pickup truck. Hinesburg police requested assistance from the state police, which responded with members of the Major Crime Unit, Bureau of Criminal Investigations, Crime Scene Search Team and Field Force.

Investigators processed the scene on Friday, July 12. Mr. Auclair’s body was transported to the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington on Friday afternoon for an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death.

Detectives are pursuing multiple avenues of investigation, conducting interviews, reviewing any available video and carrying out searches of the scene and locations connected to Mr. Auclair. Investigators do not believe there is a threat to public safety.

The Vermont State Police would like to speak to anyone who may have heard gunshots or seen anything suspicious in the area of the trailhead on Thursday evening, or who may have seen Mr. Auclair or his GMC truck (Vermont registration 290A755). Anyone with information is asked to call the state police Williston Barracks at 802-878-7111. Tips may also be submitted online at https://vsp.vermont.gov/tipsubmit.

Further updates will be issued as new information becomes available.

***Initial news release, 1:25 a.m. Friday, July 12, 2019***

On 07-11-2019, at approximately 2240 hrs, Hinesburg Police Department discovered a deceased individual at a hiking trail head parking lot located on the Gilman Road in Hinesburg. Hinesburg Police Department requested assistance from the Vermont State Police, who responded to assist with the death investigation. Due to the lack of lighting, the scene will be secured overnight and the investigation will resume during daylight hours. Gilman Road, in proximity to Honey Hill Road, will be closed to through traffic during the investigation. At this time there are no further details. Updates will be provided when more information is available.

 

[StayingAnon]

I'm not on my computer at the moment but the police have officially announced that this is a homicide.

Police say man found dead in Hinesburg was homicide victim

 

[SeesSeas]

I'm not on my computer at the moment but the police have officially announced that this is a homicide.

Police say man found dead in Hinesburg was homicide victim

And VSP updated their official website with another Update stating "homicide":
VSP Press Releases: UPDATE No. 2: Hinesburg death ruled a homicide
***Update, 7:25 p.m. Friday, July 12, 2019***
The Chief Medical Examiner's Office has completed the autopsy of David Auclair. The cause of death has been identified as multiple gunshot wounds, and the manner of death is homicide.

 

[SeesSeas]

Nothing enlightening on his FB page, other than "Married". Last post was 2016.
David Auclair
https://www.facebook.com/david.auclair.39

 

[JerseyGirl]

Wife charged in Hinesburg murder back in court

to decide whether Angela Auclair should be let out of jail while awaiting trial.

 

[FrostOwl]

The victim's stepson Kory Lee George, 31, seems to be the one who is accused of having committed the murder. Kory Lee George arrested for killing stepfather in Hinesburg

 

[imstilla.grandma]

In front of a packed courtroom Friday, Angela Auclair accepted responsibility for her role in the 2019 murder of her husband, David.

It happened in July 2019 at a Hinesburg trailhead. Prosecutors say Auclair and her son, Kory George, lured David and then shot him multiple times. It’s still not clear who pulled the trigger. George was set to testify that it was his mother, but that never happened.

“If she could do this to him, what else is she capable of? My brother, my parent’s only son, did not deserve this. No one does,” said Melissa Semprebond, David’s sister, who addressed the court prior to Auclairs’s sentencing. “I ask you, if this was your brother, would you think it’s enough? Especially after hearing everything he went through.”))

Vt. woman accused in husband’s murder to serve 18 years in prison

Angela Auclair is accused of the 2019 murder of her husband, David Auclair, with the help of her son.

www.wcax.com