The unsolved murder of Canadian mom Louise Chaput ripped a hole in her family’s heart that remains raw.

Now, cold case detectives in New Hampshire are reaching out to the public for help in solving the mysterious 2001 slaying.

Chaput, 52, was vis­it­ing New Hamp­shire from Sherbrooke, Quebec, with plans to spend sev­eral days tak­ing short hikes while stay­ing at the Joe Dodge Lodge of the Appalachian Moun­tain Club in Gorham, The Boston Globe reported at the time.

According to Attor­ney Gen­eral John M. Formella and the New Hamp­shire State Police, Chaput arrived in Pinkham’s Grant, N.H., on Nov. 15, 2001. She left her car, a sil­ver Ford Focus, at the Diret­tis­ Sima Trail­head.

The afternoon she arrived, Chaput set off for a two-hour hike. The weather that autumn was unusually mil

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