Prosecutors say Dodds may have spent some of the 27 hours he was missing in the Portsmouth apartment of staffer Alison Spruce, who lived in an old mansion Dodds owned that also housed his campaign headquarters.

Hours before Dodds was found in the snowy woods two towns away, police say they knocked on Spruce's door. A man answered but would not open the door.

Spruce testified Wednesday that she had been shaken up by news of the crash and had gone for a walk, and found police waiting to get in when she returned.

No one was inside, and Spruce said she thinks she would have known if someone had been.

"I would like to think so. I am very meticulous. I would like to think ''d know if someone had been there," she said at Dodds' falsification of evidence trial in Strafford County Superior Court.