Lebanon
A snowmobiler riding on a trail near Poverty Lane and Lebanon Municipal Airport found the body of Corey Wilson, whose last known address was in Belleville, N.J., around 1:50 p.m. on Sunday in woods off the south side of the airport runway, police said on Monday.
Police Chief Richard Mello said that no foul play was suspected.
“There’s no reason for the public to be concerned,” Mello said. “We are still investigating the circumstances that brought him to New Hampshire and where he had been staying.”
Reached by phone on Monday, his younger sister, Najaah Wilson, said she was surprised to hear that her brother had been found dead in Lebanon when a detective called her on Sunday.
“I don’t know anybody that he knew over there,” she said as she was traveling to Lebanon from New Jersey.
Najaah Wilson, who was in regular contact with her brother, had last spoken with him on Wednesday. They had a “regular conversation,” she said.
Wilson operated Sphinx Life Coaching in Belleville, according to a LinkedIn profile. He held a master’s degree in social work from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in the same from Rutgers University. As a child, he attended the Newark Boys Chorus School and Arts High School in Newark, according to the profile.
Najaah said singing still was a part of his life, and as a musician he went by the name of “Ty.”
She and her family are trying to sort out how Wilson came to die in Lebanon.
He had no known history of mental illness, she said. He did, however, have sickle cell anemia, a disease that affects the production of red blood cells, preventing adequate oxygen from traveling throughout the body, which can worsen in cold temperatures.
“Everybody is really shocked,” she said.
Wilson’s body has been taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Concord for an autopsy.
Nora Doyle-Burr can be reached at ndoyleburr@vnews.com or 603-727-3213.
