On the run, Manchester double-murder suspect won trust of 2 Fla. families - The Union Leader
Those are the qualities that a Florida woman used to describe Matthew Dion, the Manchester murder suspect who was apprehended last week in Florida after being on the run for nearly 15 months. But after ingratiating himself into the trust of her family, the man they knew as Cameron Rowell reportedly stole $300, the family car and a gun that Jacqueline Kay Smith had hidden in her closet. A few days after Smith reported the car theft, police told her who Rowell really was. Smith was listed in paperwork filed by the Clay County Sheriff Office in connection with Dion’s arrest outside Jacksonville. The Smiths were the first of two known families to unwittingly assist Dion in the months that he evaded a manhunt overseen by New Hampshire authorities and the U. S. Marshals Service. Both times, Dion befriended families headed by a single mother with a grown adult child. Last week, the New Hampshire Union Leader detailed Dion’s stay with the family of Kim Grieves in Jacksonville. She said the family met Dion sometime in the spring of 2014. That was just a couple of months after Dion allegedly strangled his parents — Robert and Connie Dion — in their Manchester home and later set the home on fire. Smith said her 20-year-old son and his girlfriend met Dion at a taco stand. Dion told them his marriage with a woman named Pam had broken up. He missed his. Source: www.unionleader.com
