The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Cold Case Team (http://doj.nh.gov/coldcaseunit/)(603-271-2663) and the Seabrook police Department (http://www.seabrookpd.com/um.htm) (603) 474-2640) continue to work together in resolving Curt’s murder and disappearance.
Seabrook police Lt. Michael Gallagher has confirmed that Robert E. April is a person of interest in the Pishon case. Police say April was working at Seabrook-based Venture Corp. when Pishon disappeared the night of July 5, 2000. There is more than one person of interest.
Police believe People in Seabrook know what happened, but that “the mafia code of silence has nothing on the one you’ll find in Seabrook.”
Gallagher has pieced together what he believes happened the night of July 4, 2000, and in the early morning hours of July 5. He believes the people responsible for Pishon’s death walk the streets of Seabrook today, protected by fear and that code of silence.
Gallagher also believes that holding back the information that could return Pishon’s remains to his family amounts to nothing less than “moral cowardice.”
In recent months, some residents in town have stepped forward, allowing state and local police to search private property areas once suspected as holding Pishon’s body. Although the digging did not unearth Pishon’s remains, Gallagher said it at least put those suspicions to rest, so the investigation could move on to explore other evidence.
According to the North American Missing Persons website, on July 4, 2000, Pishon arrived at his security guard job at the former Venture Corp. around 9:30 p.m., parking his car in the parking lot close to the guard shack.
The guard he was to relieve told police that after chatting briefly with Pishon, he did not appear depressed or upset. Around midnight, Pishon’s supervisor checked on him and reported no problems.
At 2 a.m., July 5, however, Pishon called the Seabrook Fire Department to report that his car was on fire. Although the car was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived shortly after the call, firefighters told police Pishon was remarkably calm despite what was happening to his car.
The last entry in Pishon’s guard log was at 2 a.m., when he reported the fire, and a few plant workers on their break saw him at approximately 3:15 a.m. The first person to notice him missing was a worker arriving at the plant at 3:45 a.m., about the same time a night-shift foreman reported seeing two vehicles racing out of the driveway. When next shift’s guard arrived to replace Pishon, he was nowhere to be found.
In past interviews, Gallagher has said the department’s investigation points to Pishon’s disappearance being the result of foul play. Gallagher has said in the past that three suspicious incidents took place at Venture on the morning Pishon disappeared: First, Pishon’s car was torched, then there was an attempt to break in and steal the money in vending machines at the plant, and finally, the padlocked door of a union office at Venture was kicked in.
Gallagher thinks Pishon’s car may have been torched to divert attention from a planned crime, and that after stumbling upon the crime, Pishon was killed — either accidentally or purposefully — and his body hidden by those responsible.
