Unattended Death Investigation Reported In Portsmouth

CONCORD, NH — Portsmouth police are asking for the public's help after the department began an unattended death investigation on Thursday.

Police, firefighters, and EMTs were sent to the Feaster Apartments on Court Street to perform a wellbeing check on a woman around 8:45 a.m. When they arrived, they found the woman, Deborah Miller, 56, dead.

"An investigation is being conducted by the Portsmouth Police Department's Investigative Division and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner," Capt. John Peracchi of the Portsmouth Police Department stated. "While the cause and manner of the death will ultimately be determined by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, based on the investigation to date, the death appears to be the result of a drug overdose."

Police are asking anyone who has information about Miller to contact Det. Matthew Young at 603-610-7619.

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