Boardman police are investigating the death of a 28-year-old New Hampshire woman whose naked, lifeless body was found on Labor Day in a room at the Wagon Wheel Motel, 7015 Market St.
      Dead is 27-year-old Meagan Vittum, of Plymouth, New Hampshire. Police are awaiting the results of toxicology tests in an effort to determine if a drug overdose caused the woman’s death.
      Vittum had her driver’s license suspended in New Hampshire two years ago, and on Apr. 24, 2015 she was arrested in Pt. Charlotte, Fla. on a battery charge.
      It is unknown how the woman came to Ohio.
      Det. Greg Stepuk told The Boardman News that Vittum checked into a room at the Wagon Wheel on Fri., Sept. 4 in the company of a 45-year-old man named Steve Shaffer.
      Richard Dzuray, manager of the Wagon Wheel, told police he received a telephone call from a man who identified himself as ‘Steve’ on Sept. 7, shortly before 10:00 a.m. Dzuray said the caller asked him to go and check on his girlfriend “because he could not reach her for the past couple of days.”
      Dzuray said he went to Vittum’s room and found her dead, laying on her back and covered with a white sheet that was pulled up to her shoulders.
      Dzuray told Boardman police when Vittum checked into the motel, ‘Steve’ was with her.
      Dzuray said the last time he saw Vittum with ‘Steve’ was on Sept. 5 around 10:30 a.m. when she and the man needed assistance after locking themselves out of their room.
      Dzuray told police the last time he saw ‘Steve’ was about 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 5 when the man “walked away” from the motel room.
      The death is the third at the motel this year. On Apr. 6 Chris Ocasio, 21, and Cassandra West, 19, were found dead by hanging in a room they had rented at the Wagon Wheel.