Madbury slay indictment may come soon

Zachary D.J. Pinette

Slay victim Aaron Wilkinson

DOVER, N.H. - Court records show that earlier this fall the prosecutor in the case against three suspected killers of a Madbury teen asked for more time to prepare for their possible indictment by a Strafford County grand jury.

A copy of the records, obtained by The Lebanon Voice, shows that a possible indictment target date for one of the suspects, Zachary D.J. Pinette, 19, of Sprigvale, Maine, could be as early as this month.

The other two suspects in the killing of 18-year-old Aaron Wilkinson - Michael Tatum, 21, of Barrington, N.H., and Tristan Wolusky, 18, of Rochester - are shown with possible indictments coming down as early as January 2015.

Generally a three-month window is expected in which prosecutors are expected to prepare their case for a grand jury, but extensions are often granted.

Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Strelzin asked for extensions in all three cases.

Wolusky's was the last to be bound over to Superior Court in late July.

Tristan Wolusky

Meanwhile, it was learned that while Wolusky and Tatum are housed at the Strafford County House of Correction, Pinette was remanded to Carroll County Jail.

A request for extension on presenting Wolusky's case to a grand jury was requested on Oct. 6, while similar requests on Tatum and Pinette were requested Sept. 15.

The suspects are accused of killing Wilkinson sometime around 1:30 a.m. June 21 on the property of his 36 Evans Road home where he lived with his father.

According to the criminal complaint it is alleged that Pinette held "a machete as Tatum and/or Wolusky stabbed Aaron Wilkinson with knives and the machete Pinette had been holding."

The trio allegedly then dumped the body on Long Swamp Road in Lebanon, Maine, where it was found later in the day.

The three suspects remain jailed on no bail. They face life in prison.

Michael Tatum

The four young men could have come together for the first time at the Great Bay eLearning Charter School in Exeter, N.H., which they all attended for a period of time. Wilkinson appears to have been there the longest, attending for about three years, while the others are thought to have been there shorter periods of time.