Jury convicts Lyme man in Orford murder

NORTH HAVERHILL—After roughly four and a half hours of deliberation on Friday, May 15, a Grafton County jury found a 40-year-old Lyme man guilty of second-degree murder for the shooting death of his cousin four and a half years ago. Judge Lawrence MacLeod ordered Lance Goodrich held without bail pending sentencing, which was not scheduled as of Friday. Goodrich has been held in Grafton County jail since his arrest following the murder of Brooke Goodrich, 25, on Nov. 20, 2021.