Overview
- Police charged 59-year-old Daniel Jolly of Portsmouth with the 1993 murder of 73-year-old Maxine Bitomski after an arrest made Thursday in Portsmouth.
- Investigators reopened the case in 2021 and said advances in DNA testing and renewed evidence review led to the identification and charge.
- Authorities say Jolly knew Bitomski through his work delivering oxygen equipment for Medical Market, the Portsmouth medical supply company that served her.
- The official cause of death remains sealed in court records, and Jolly is being held at the Rockingham County Jail pending an extradition hearing to Maine.
- State and local investigators credited decades of work by current and retired detectives and the state crime lab and asked the public to provide tips as the probe continues.