Carl Drega is well-known for having shot and killed NH State Troopers, Scott Phillips and Les Lord; attorney and part-time judge Vickie Bunnell; Dennis Joos, editor of the local Colebrook News and Sentinel; and wounded several other police officers and U.S. Border Patrol agents before finally being shot to death. In the midst of all this he burned down his house in Columbia, where he lived alone since his wife Rita had died. Later the police found it stockpiled with pipe bombs, rifles, explosives, and projectile casings for a grenade launcher in the ashes of his home.
It is not known when he and Rita married, but it was sometime after she divorced her last husband, Kenneth Cole (who she had married in 1955). She died in 1972. Carl was cremated and his ashes buried here behind her stone. His headstone is right behind hers, almost under it.
Age: 62yrs
Cause of Death: Shot to Death
∼Carl Drega was a man and US Army veteran from Bow, New Hampshire, who killed two state troopers, a judge and a newspaper editor and wounded three other law enforcement officers before being shot to death in a firefight with police. The book 'The Ballad of Carl Drega' by Vin Suprynowicz is named for him.
It is not known when he and Rita married, but it was sometime after she divorced her last husband, Kenneth Cole (who she had married in 1955). She died in 1972. Carl was cremated and his ashes buried here behind her stone. His headstone is right behind hers, almost under it.
Age: 62yrs
Cause of Death: Shot to Death
∼Carl Drega was a man and US Army veteran from Bow, New Hampshire, who killed two state troopers, a judge and a newspaper editor and wounded three other law enforcement officers before being shot to death in a firefight with police. The book 'The Ballad of Carl Drega' by Vin Suprynowicz is named for him.
Carl Drega is well-known for having shot and killed NH State Troopers, Scott Phillips and Les Lord; attorney and part-time judge Vickie Bunnell; Dennis Joos, editor of the local Colebrook News and Sentinel; and wounded several other police officers and U.S. Border Patrol agents before finally being shot to death. In the midst of all this he burned down his house in Columbia, where he lived alone since his wife Rita had died. Later the police found it stockpiled with pipe bombs, rifles, explosives, and projectile casings for a grenade launcher in the ashes of his home.
It is not known when he and Rita married, but it was sometime after she divorced her last husband, Kenneth Cole (who she had married in 1955). She died in 1972. Carl was cremated and his ashes buried here behind her stone. His headstone is right behind hers, almost under it.
Age: 62yrs
Cause of Death: Shot to Death
∼Carl Drega was a man and US Army veteran from Bow, New Hampshire, who killed two state troopers, a judge and a newspaper editor and wounded three other law enforcement officers before being shot to death in a firefight with police. The book 'The Ballad of Carl Drega' by Vin Suprynowicz is named for him.
It is not known when he and Rita married, but it was sometime after she divorced her last husband, Kenneth Cole (who she had married in 1955). She died in 1972. Carl was cremated and his ashes buried here behind her stone. His headstone is right behind hers, almost under it.
Age: 62yrs
Cause of Death: Shot to Death
∼Carl Drega was a man and US Army veteran from Bow, New Hampshire, who killed two state troopers, a judge and a newspaper editor and wounded three other law enforcement officers before being shot to death in a firefight with police. The book 'The Ballad of Carl Drega' by Vin Suprynowicz is named for him.
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