NH boy picking up litter finds and returns backpack stuffed with more than $8,000 in cash

ALTON, N.H. — A 10-year-old boy picking up litter in Alton, N.H., found a backpack stuffed with more than $8,000 cash. Arie Johnston, of Dover, was helping his grandmother with her town’s annual roadside cleanup when he spotted the burned backpack Saturday. He told Foster’s Daily Democrat his first thought was that someone had killed someone for the money.