File photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS Manchester and state police officers and detectives gather at the scene where the body of Cynthia Halloran was found the morning of Dec. 30. Both agencies continue to investigate the incident. (File photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS )

MANCHESTER – Police investigating the death of 69-year-old Cynthia Halloran, whose body was discovered the morning of Dec. 30 near a Youngsville Baseball Complex field off Londonderry Turnpike, are renewing their request for help from the public in tracing Halloran’s whereabouts in the hours leading up to her death.

While an autopsy was conducted the day after Halloran’s body was found, police said the cause and manner of her death remain pending, subject to further investigation and the examination of test results.

Police didn’t specify whether the autopsy report contained information that they are not releasing at this time, or if the autopsy was inconclusive as to the cause and manner of Halloran’s death.

By description, cause of death is the specific injury or disease that leads to a person’s death, while the manner of death is the determination of how the injury or disease leads to death. Manner of death falls into one of five categories: Natural, accident, suicide, homicide or undetermined.

Meanwhile, the office of Deputy Attorney General Jane Young, on behalf of Manchester Police Chief Allen Aldenberg, issued the latest appeal to the public for assistance in the case.

Courtesy photo Police released this photo of Cynthia Halloran, whose death Dec. 30 in Manchester is under investigation. (Courtesy photo)

Young said local police received a 911 call shortly after 7:30 a.m. Dec. 30 reporting “that a body, alter identified as Ms. Halloran, had been found behind one of the fields in the Youngsville Baseball Complex, near the parking lot for the Rockingham Rail Trail.”

The site is in northeastern Manchester, across the Londonderry Turnpike from the shore of Lake Massabesic and roughly 100 yards from the rotary where the turnpike, Candia Road and Route 121 intersect.

In their request for assistance, investigators are focusing in particular on the roughly two hours between 5:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. Dec. 30.

They ask that anyone who saw Halloran during that time period, or who has any information on her whereabouts or any circumstances surrounding the matter, to contact the Manchester police detective bureau at 668-8711.

Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256 or dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.