By DEVON CORMIER
Staff Writer

A Hooksett mother and her daughter murdered in her brother’s Manchester home may have been sexually assaulted. Court documents revealing those details were released on Friday, Nov. 5.

Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Strelzin said test results were not yet in as of Friday, Nov. 5.

Christopher Bernard, 35, of 61 Johnson St., Manchester, has been charged with three counts of homicide in the deaths of Tricia Doyle, 30, daughter Gillian, 4, and son James, 2, all of Helen Drive in Hooksett.

Bernard is waiting to appear at Hillsborough County Superior Court for possible indictment by a grand jury. He is held currently in the Valley Street Jail.

What follows is information contained in court documents reconstructing the day of the murders.

Kim Bernard was expecting to get picked up from work by her husband, his sister and her two small children on Monday, Oct. 4. When her husband, Christopher Bernard dropped her off at 7 a.m., he shared his plans to make dinner for her.

Kim’s husband never came to get her. She called his cell phone at 5:24 p.m., almost a half an hour after he was expected. Christopher Bernard answered the phone out of breath. He said he had been moving some brush in the back of their 61 Johnson St., Manchester, home and that he’d be on his way. She wasn’t convinced. He had been depressed lately and she thought he might be harming himself.

Bernard began to walk home from her Chester job, then a friend picked her up. When she arrived home, the door was locked but the television and lights were on inside. Her and her husband’s only car was in the driveway.

Kim Bernard didn’t have her keys and could not see inside her home. She called police, but before they could arrive, her brother-in-law, Kenneth Bernard showed up.

Kenneth said Kim’s husband was in the hospital after an apparent suicide attempt. Christopher Bernard had been taken to Elliot Hospital after he was found walking through traffic on Interstate 93. Bernard was hit by a dump truck and had head injuries. There was also cocaine in his system, Kenneth Bernard said.

Kenneth told police that his brother had a history of drug abuse, specifically with OxyContin and cocaine. Kenneth also told Kim Bernard that Tricia Doyle and her children were missing.

Bernard went to the hospital to see her husband and she searched for house keys when she arrived at her husband’s bedside. She found only Tricia Doyle’s keys and a bloody cell phone. Kim Bernard called police and asked them to break into her home.

Doyle and her two children were found stabbed to death in the second floor bedroom. While searching the residence, police seized cocaine, numerous prescriptions including antidepressants, medication for erectile dysfunction, pornographic videos, one of which was playing on the television in the bedroom, and more than 100 other materials and samples. A substance allegedly resembling semen or saliva was found on the little girl and her mother. There was also a substance that appeared to be heroin the bedroom, according to the court documents.

The only evidence that has been returned is a blanket that was found in Tricia Doyle’s Nissan X-Terra. Christopher Bernard had driven the car to the location of his apparent suicide attempt. The blanket belonged to James Doyle. His father, Robert Doyle, requested that the blanket be returned immediately, which it was.