May 7, 2006 6:14 pm US/Eastern
Missing Man's Mother Providing DNA In LaBarre Case
EPPING, N.H. (AP) ―
The mother of a missing man who lived with Sheila LaBarre says she will provide a DNA sample and her son's dental records to investigators working the case.
Donna Boston, of Somersworth, hasn't seen or heard from her son, Michael Deloge, since 2004. In March, authorities searching LaBarre's 115 acre farm for the remains of a different missing man contacted Boston because they had found her son's belongings on the farm.
LaBarre, 47, has been charged with first-degree murder for the death of Kenneth Countie, who first was reported missing in February, after moving in with her in Epping. She maintains her innocence and remains jailed at Strafford County jail.
Boston said she is particularly worried by news reports citing LaBarre's animosity toward sex offenders. LaBarre is quoted in court papers as saying sex offenders must die.
Boston told newspaper reporters her son was sexually abused as a child, and that as an adult, he molested girls.
LaBarre told police that Countie confessed he was sexually abused as a child, and was a child rapist, according to a state police affidavit. Police say LaBarre told them that Countie, formerly of Wilmington, Mass., may have fallen in a fire and gotten burned.
The Middlesex County district attorney's office has no record of charges against Countie.
Investigators searching LaBarre's property found blood in her house and on a knife, and burned clothing, teeth, human bones and a mattress in piles outside. Blood on the knife and in some rooms have been matched to Countie.
But there are other, older bloodstains, and though a forensic analyst said the burned bones belong to a man younger than 35, they have made no positive match to an individual.
Deloge would be 38 today.
Boston said LaBarre met Deloge in 2003 when he was living at a Portsmouth homeless shelter. She last saw her son nearly two years ago, when he and LaBarre visited her apartment. Boston said her son told her he was happy with LaBarre, though he looked to be in poor health. Witnesses who saw Countie in the weeks before he died also said he looked sick.
"I think he's dead," Boston said of her son. "I really do."
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