Slain teenager had been indicted on drug charges

Messages of remembrance adorn a skateboard that serves as a shrine where the body of Madbury teen Aaron Wilkinson was found on Saturday alongside Long Swamp Road in Lebanon. Skateboarding was one of his favorite pastimes. (Harrison Thorp photo)

EXETER, N.H. - The Madbury teenager who was fatally stabbed last weekend was facing drug charges in Rockingham County Superior Court after Exeter Police arrested him last year.

Aaron Wilkinson, of 36 Evans Road, in Madbury, was arrested on Nov. 10 by Exeter Police and charged with possession, intent to distribute and drug paraphernalia, according to an Exeter Police arrest log from that day.

He was indicted in March on one count of possession of a controlled drug with intent to sell and two counts of possession.

His trial was set for September.

Wilkinson attended the Great Bay Charter School in Exeter during parts of the past two years.

The teen’s body was found Saturday in Lebanon, Maine, around 4 p.m. about five feet off the edge of Long Swamp Road in the area of a frog pond about three tenths of a mile south of Lord Road. A woman walking her dog found the remains.

On Sunday police released the cause of death as multiple stab wounds and that it was a homicide.

The Evans Road home of the Madbury teenager had been the scene of intense police activity since Saturday morning when it is reported parents found him missing and called police.

Aaron Wilkinson

Since missing persons cases are not always treated so aggressively it is speculated police may have found some evidence of a crime early on at the residence.

A press release from Maine State Police Spokesman Stephen McCausland indicates while officials from both states are cooperatively investigating the case, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office is the lead agency, indicating officials must think any foul play leading to the teen’s death would have occurred in New Hampshire.

The woman who discovered the body said he was lying on his stomach in a pool of blood when she found him.

The investigation into the circumstances of how Wilkinson was killed is ongoing, New Hampshire investigators said. It is likely that given his brush with the law in November their efforts will revolve around possible drug activity and motives.