Within a few weeks, eight deaths have been reported in the same location, fueling serial killer fears.
On April 22, a woman was discovered unconscious on a Springfield bike route in the 1500 block of Hall of Fame Avenue.
At the time the police and the medics arrived at the scene, she was unresponsive.
“The SPD Homicide Unit under the direction Captain Trent Duda is conducting an unattended death investigation in conjunction with the @HampdenDA Murder Unit, pending an autopsy by the Medical Examiner,” Ryan Walsh, a spokesman for the Springfield Police Department said in a statement.
Between March and April, eight individuals, mostly women, died in the area between Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
Human remains have been found in places including New Haven, Norwalk, Groton and Killingly, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
Walsh said that authorities didn’t find any link between the eight deaths that triggered fears of a serial killer, referring to the rumors “just that.”
Connecticut State Police recently issued a statement stating that “there is no information at this time suggesting any connection to similar remains discoveries, and there is also no known threat to the public at this time.”
The rumors about a potential serial killer in the area were fueled by a Facebook group “New England Serial Killer,” which was later renamed due to the social media site’s policy.
Peter Valentin, chair of the University of New Haven’s Forensic Science Department spoke of the deaths in the area, stating that the cause of death of the woman discovered on a Springfield bike route has not yet been determined.
“I am curious about what was recovered around the body. There might have been paraphernalia suggestive of activity that is deemphasizing homicide (perhaps incorrectly) to the investigators because that article is quite tepid,” he told Fox Digital.
“It is filled with very cautious language (surely taken right from police press releases), which might be intentional to not feed into what is now turning into intense scrutiny over every suspicious death in New England.”
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