Ex-Police Chief and Murder Suspect Charged With Sexually Assaulting Minor

Robert Chambers, 64, of Swanzey is accused of abusing the underage victim between 1994 and 2000

A former police chief in Marlow, New Hampshire suspected in a 1978 murder is due before a judge Wednesday on charges that he sexually assaulted an underage victim. 

Robert Chambers, 64, of Swanzey is accused of abusing the underage victim between 1994 and 2000. He is set to appear in court Wednesday afternoon. 

In 1978, Chambers was arrested, but not indicted in the murder of a friend. 

Chambers went on to marry that friend's wife. 

The body was found ten years later in Chambers' yard when he was serving as police chief. 

The case remains open to this day.

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