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Search continues for body of teenage girl
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DOVER, N.H. — An actor and martial arts instructor accused of killing a female University of New Hampshire student last week was upbeat and described his life as "really good" three days after the woman's death, an acquaintance said Monday.
Seth Mazzaglia, of Dover, was charged Saturday with second-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott, who vanished a week ago and whose body has yet to be found. He is accused of strangling or suffocating her in his apartment Tuesday night; the search for the body has been focused on Peirce Island in nearby Portsmouth.
Mazzaglia, 29, didn't speak during a brief arraignment via video feed Monday, and his court-appointed attorneys didn't object to the prosecutor's request that he be held without bail.
The New Hampshire Marine Patrol continues to search the Piscataqua River for the body Elizabeth "Lizzy" Marriott, a missing University of New Hampshire student on Monday in Portsmouth. N.H.I.29-year-old Seth Mazzaglia was held without bail Monday on a charge of strangling or suffocating Marriott.
Marriott, of Westborough, Mass., was living with an aunt in Chester, N.H., and commuting to the university in Durham, where she was majoring in marine biology. She was last heard from Oct. 9 when she made plans to visit friends in Dover after attending a class, but never showed up. Her cellphone was last used in Dover that night, according to fliers that family members posted, but authorities said her car was
But Craig Faulkner, who works at a theater company where Mazzaglia had auditioned, said he chatted with Mazzaglia for about 20 minutes on Friday while shopping at Best Buy in Newington. Mazzaglia, who was working in the store's video game section, told him: "Life is good," said Faulkner, producing artistic director at Seacoast Repertory Theatre in Portsmouth.
"I just asked him, 'How are things?' He said, "Things are really good," Faulkner told The Associated Press.
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found several miles away in a parking lot on campus in Durham.
Family and friends spent several frantic days searching for her before charges were announced over the weekend. Police have not said what led them to arrest Mazzaglia or how he knew Mariotti.
"They were familiar with each other," Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young said Monday.
Young said "credible information" has prompted authorities to focus search efforts on the water around the 27-acre island that separates the city of Portsmouth from the Piscataqua River. Marine patrol officials have been using sonar and an underwater camera, she said, but the river's currents and eddies have hampered their efforts.
"The search in that area may last several more days. They have not exhausted that search," she said. "We have not discussed an end date. We have discussed continuing this until we find her."
Authorities in Maine and Massachusetts also have been notified in case her body washes up there, Young said.
Mazzaglia graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2006 with a degree in theater, Faulkner said. He was known as the "go-to guy" for fight choreography in the area.
Faulkner described Mazzaglia as a quiet, respectful guy but also as someone with a nerdy vibe that made him a bit of "an odd duck."
"He's just a little unusual. ... I don't really know how to explain it," he said, "You don't meet him and go, 'Wow, that guy's a murderer.'"
Faukner said he never ended up casting Mazzaglia, called him more of a character actor than a leading man. He said Mazzaglia has an advanced black belt designation.
"What I thought about is, I shook his hand two times and if he actually did this. It was one of those, Are you ... kidding me moments?" Faulkner said.
Friends and family have described Marriott as a fun-loving, trusting young woman with a wide circle of friends who was active in chorus and a prom queen in high school.
She loved animals, volunteered at the New England Aquarium and helped put herself through school by working at Target.
Ken Ziniti, a store manager at the Target store in Greenland, said Marriott was one of the nicest young people he's met.
"Put a smile on everybody's faces," he said. "She worked all over the sales floor, always out in front of the guests."
University of New Hampshire professor David Kave, who once taught Mazzaglia in
an acting class, said Monday that he had been a hard-working student who had a special interest in stage combat. He said people at the school feel for the victim's family and are shocked and saddened by what's happened.
"Everybody is sort of reeling from all of this news," he said.
TECHNOLOGY
Sprint sells stake to Softbank
NEW YORK — Sprint, the No. 3 cellphone company in the U.S., is selling a controlling stake to Japan's Softbank for $20.1 billion.
The deal, announced Monday in Tokyo, positions Sprint Nextel Corp. as a stronger competitor to U.S. market leaders Verizon Wireless and AT&T, but it doesn't solve all of the company's underlying problems.
Sprint, which is based in Overland Park, Kan., has been limping along since 2005, when it bought Nextel. The merger quickly turned sour, saddling Sprint with the cost of running two incompatible networks while customers fled.
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse has laid the groundwork for a turnaround — the company's reputation for customer service has improved during his tenure. But his efforts haven't had an immediate impact on profitability. On its own, the
Softbank Corp., a holding company with investments in Internet and telecom businesses, made its own venture into the wireless world in 2005, with the acquisition of Vodafone Japan. It turned that business around, giving President Masayoshi Son the confidence that he can make Sprint a profitable company again after five straight years of losses.
"This is a transformative transaction for Sprint that creates immediate value for our stockholders..."
DAN HESSE
Sprint CEO
company would have a hard road ahead, as it pays for both a network revamp and $15.5 billion in iPhones from Apple.
Under the deal, Sprint shareholders can turn in 55 percent of their shares to Softbank in exchange for $7.30 per share. Sprint shares were up just 3 cents at $5.76 in morning trading Monday, suggesting that investors had accurately pegged the value of the transaction last week, when
they sent the stock up 14 percent based on reports of talks between Softbank and Sprint.
Softbank's is paying $12.1 billion for the 55-percent stake. It's buying an additional $8 billion worth of shares from the company, for a total stake of 70 percent. That investment will dilute the value of existing shares, and is the reason Sprint's stock didn't trade higher on Monday.
"This is a transformative transaction for Sprint that creates immediate value for our stockholders, while providing an opportunity to participate in the future growth of a stronger, better capitalized Sprint going forward," Hesse said.
Analysts were more reserved in their judgment.
"While we believe it will take far more than capital for Sprint Nextel
to effectively compete with Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility, we believe the deal announced today, without question, strengthens Sprint's position in the long-run," said Christopher King at Stifel Nicolaus.
T-Mobile USA has its own plan: two weeks ago, it struck a deal to buy MetroPCS Communications Inc., the No. 5 carrier in the U.S.
Kevin Smithen at Macquarie Capital said the deal doesn't improve Sprint's access to space on the airwaves, which is critical to improving its wireless data network, nor does it provide a path to improving its profitability. A merger with T-Mobile USA, the No. 4 carrier, might still be needed to deal with those problems, he said.
Associated Press
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Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son, left, and Sprint Nextel Corp. Chief Executive Dan Hesse shake hands during their joint press conference in Tokyo on Monday., Tokyo-based mobile carrier Softbank has reached a deal with Sprint to acquire 70 percent of the U.S. wireless company for $20.1 billion.
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