Seth Mazzaglia, the suspect involved in the killing of Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott is due in court on Monday in Dover, New Hampshire for an arraignment hearing. Mazzaglia will is being charged with second degree murder of the 19-year-old University of New Hampshire student.
There is no clear information on how the 29-year-old suspect intends to plead in the case. Police have declined to specify details linking Mazzaglia to the murder, but say they had "credible information leading them to believe" of his involvement in her death according to the Associated Press.
Mazzaglia was charged last Saturday with the murder of Marriott after she went missing earlier that week. According to www.boston.com, Marriot was last seen leaving campus on Tuesday to visit her aunt six miles away from Dover, police suspect her body to be somewhere in Peirce Island. The New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney, said, "We're following the leads that we've been given in the investigation, and that has led us to the island." The search for her body was stopped Sunday due to weather complications, but police say that they will resume the search Tuesday.
Marriott was studying marine biology at University of New Hampshire. She was originally from Westborough, Massachusetts. She was volunteering at the New England Aquarium. Police have not yet revealed her connection to Mazzaglia, a martial arts instructor.
Marriot's family released a statement stating, "This is the worst parents' nightmare, a missing child and with an unfavorable outcome," according to Seattle Pi.
