A prosecutor says the search for the body of a 19-year-old University of New Hampshire student has been suspended ahead of the arraignment for an actor and martial arts instructor who's been charged in her death.
Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young said a ground and water search on and around Portsmouth's Peirce Island was put on hold Oct. 14, and that officials would decide the following day what the next step should be.
Seth Mazzaglia of Dover, 29, was charged on Oct. 13 with second-degree murder in the death of Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott. Marriott was from Westborough, Mass., and had been living with an aunt in Chester, N.H., and commuting to the university in Durham.
Young said Mazzaglia and Marriott knew each other, but she wouldn't elaborate. Mazzaglia's arraignment is Monday.
