Five months before police found Gina Maiorano’s body on the side of the highway, Weare police arrested her boyfriend Thomas Hanley on four separate domestic violence charges after witnesses say they saw him push her, berate her and force her back into the car they were driving.

After the episode on Jan. 11, a judge granted Maiorano a domestic violence protection order against Hanley. He quickly violated it when he sent her a picture of himself holding a gun and called her several times, police said in court paperwork supporting his arrest on felony charges of conduct after an accident.

Hanley, 30, was driving the white Chevy Tahoe with Maiorano just before her death. She jumped out of the vehicle, Hanley’s father told police. Hanley never stopped because he was high on meth, he told his father.

An autopsy performed by Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jennie V. Duval concluded that Maiorano died from blunt force trauma to the head. She sustained a fractured right wrist, a fractured right shoulder, superficial lacerations and road rash on the majority of her body.

When she was found on the roadway, her pants were unbuttoned and unzipped, police said.

Hanley, 30, of Henniker, was charged with conduct after an accident, a felony, and breach of bail and stalking, misdemeanors, in connection with Maiorano’s death during the early morning hours of June 5. Hanley was arrested the following day and released on a $5,000 cash bail after pleading not guilty to all charges.

During the early morning hours of June 5, a passerby notified police that a female was dead in the breakdown lane of I-89 north near exit 4 in the town of Hopkinton, according to court documents. An initial examination of the body indicated that she died from blunt force trauma to the head, which was most likely sustained after falling from a moving vehicle. The woman did not have identification on her.

The following morning, Hanley contacted police to identify the woman as his girlfriend, Maiorano.

He first called police in Hopkinton, Mass., who told him he was talking to police in the wrong state. He then called police in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, who told him to call State Police.

Hanley told police that Maiorano jumped out of the vehicle while they were driving. The couple has a lengthy history of domestic violence and DCYF involvement in both New Hampshire and Connecticut, where Maiorano lived, according to court records.

Following Hanley’s arrest in January, Maiorano, who was 27 and a mother of two, relocated to Connecticut and lived with her brother before going to rehab. She recently left rehab before her death after she relapsed with Hanley the night and morning before she died, Hanley’s father told police.

Hanley and Maiorano had lived in Goffstown and Weare before co-signing a lease for an apartment in Henniker on May 15.

Hanley remains free on bail pending a hearing on August 11 at 8:30 a.m. at Merrimack Superior Court in Concord.

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