Concord Police Detective Nicole Murray sifted through evidence bags filled with clothes, ammunition and gun accessories on Thursday that police collected from the Vermont tent site of murder suspect Logan Clegg the day after his arrest.

The New Hampshire State Police Forensic Laboratory would later determine that the 9mm ammunition found at the site was a match to the bullets, fragments and casings found at the murder scene of Wendy and Steve Reid in Concord six months prior, police said.

Clegg, 27, fled Concord and burned his tent site in the days after he shot and killed the Reids in April 2022 to conceal his guilt and get away with murder, prosecutors told jurors in their opening arguments of his murder trial that began this week. He was arrested by police six months later in South Burlington, Vermont.

His attorney has maintained police have the wrong man and that Clegg lied and fled Concord because of his criminal past and desire to be left alone.

During her testimony, Murray continued to outline her investigative process, noting that four months after police located the burnt tent site in Concord, she returned in August 2022 to collect additional evidence that could help police prove that Arthur Kelly, an alias often used by Clegg, had lived there until the homicides.

Jurors were shown clothing worn by Steve Reid, bloodied leaves collected the day after the bodies were found near the Broken Ground trails and bullet fragments and casings recovered both from the crime scene and the burnt tent site in Concord.

The bodies of the Reids were covered by debris and leaves in a natural depression at the bottom of a hill more than 50 feet off the main trail.

Evidence at the scene indicated the bodies were dragged by their feet to their final resting place, Murray said.

Additionally, jurors viewed a pill bottle and a Gatorade bottle collected from the recovery area in April 2022 and burnt pots, pans, a plate, a bowl and a mug, two burnt cooktops, and tree branches disturbed by bullets as a result of target practice in the area of the burnt tent site in August 2022.

Ballistics would later show that the shell casings recovered from the burnt tent site matched those found at the crime scene, and those later recovered from Clegg’s tent site in Vermont, police said.

During the early days of the investigation, the name “Logan Clegg” was not known to the police department. Near the end of the summer, following an intense investigation by Concord detectives, Murray learned the true name of the suspect they were looking for and was told he had set up another tent site in the Centennial Woods in South Burlington, Vermont.

She arrived in Vermont in October the day that Clegg was arrested and continued her investigation the following day in a wooded area on the campus of the University of Vermont, a location that investigators agreed was similar to the Broken Ground trail system.

When Murray located the tent site, it was littered with debris including bottles of Mountain Dew, clothing receipts, plastic containers that once held rotisserie chicken and various cans of food. After obtaining a search warrant, detectives opened the tent to find a grocery bag from Price Chopper where Clegg was employed, plastic soda bottles, a sleeping bag and two plastic trash bags containing clothes, gun accessories and Sig Sauer 9mm ammunition, the same caliber recovered from the crime scene in Concord six months earlier.

At the time of the murder, Clegg was known to live in a tent near the trail system less than half a mile from the Reids’ apartment complex off Loudon Road. In the days following the murders, Clegg fled the area, traveling first to Portland, Maine, and then to Boston, Massachusetts, before he arrived in South Burlington, Vermont a month later.

He’s facing four charges of second-degree murder, four charges of falsifying physical evidence and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. If convicted, he faces life in prison.

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