New England serial killer fears heighten after eighth idyllic town rocked by gruesome discovery

Massachusetts authorities are investigating the decease of a pistillate recovered unresponsive disconnected a motorcycle way successful Springfield connected Tuesday.

Springfield Police Department spokesperson Ryan Walsh said officers responded to reports of an unresponsive idiosyncratic adjacent a motorcycle way astatine the 1500 artifact of Hall of Fame Avenue.

Upon arrival, officers discovered a pistillate who was pronounced dormant soon after.

"The SPD Homicide Unit nether the absorption Captain Trent Duda is conducting an unattended decease probe successful conjunction with the @HampdenDA Murder Unit, pending an autopsy by the Medical Examiner," Walsh said.

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Downtown main thoroughfare of Springfield, Massachusetts, USA (iStock)

The woman's decease comes amid rumors circulating online astir a imaginable New England serial slayer pursuing the deaths of 7 and present 8 people, mostly women, betwixt March and April successful Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. As of Wednesday, authorities person not announced immoderate benignant of transportation betwixt the 8 victims' deaths.

Walsh told Fox News Digital that the woman's origin of decease volition beryllium determined by a aesculapian examiner, and added that "internet rumors are conscionable that."

The rumors began circulating connected a Facebook radical called "New England Serial Killer," which has since changed its sanction owed to Facebook rules and regulations. Over the past 2 months, quality remains person been located successful New Haven, Norwalk, Groton and Killingly, Connecticut; Foster, Rhode Island; and Framingham, Plymouth and present Springfield, Massachusetts. Some societal media users accidental these discoveries of quality remains — particularly, pistillate remains — crossed the 3 neighboring states whitethorn bespeak a serial killer. 

One acceptable of the quality remains was recovered successful Groton, Connecticut. (iStock)

But Connecticut State Police told Fox News Digital past week that "there is nary accusation astatine this clip suggesting immoderate transportation to akin remains discoveries, and determination is besides nary known menace to the nationalist astatine this time," regarding the deaths successful Connecticut. 

Peter Valentin, seat of the Forensic Science Department astatine the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, told Fox News Digital the information that constabulary responded to reports of an unresponsive idiosyncratic "is powerfully suggestive of idiosyncratic who did not person immoderate post-mortem artifacts that would negate the request to cheque for captious signs needed to marque a pronouncement."

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A 35-year-old missing woman's remains were recovered successful a swiftly moving Norwalk River aft dense rainfall the nighttime before.  (iStock)

"If idiosyncratic is successful afloat rigor mortis, determination is nary request to effort to find a pulse due to the fact that the beingness of rigor mortis means they are unequivocally dead. So this is simply a precise caller death, dissimilar the others that are being attributed to the [New England serial killer," Valentin said.

While immoderate of the remains recovered crossed the 3 New England states implicit the past 2 months were intact bodies that person been identified, others were degraded to the constituent that it volition instrumentality clip for authorities to place who the victims were. In different words, portion the remains were located implicit the span of 2 months, that does not bespeak the victims died astir the aforesaid time.

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Valentin noted that Springfield constabulary person not yet determined whether the woman's decease was a homicide.

A pistillate was recovered dormant adjacent a Springfield, Massachusetts, motorcycle way connected April 22. (John Greim/LightRocket )

"I americium funny astir what was recovered astir the body," helium said. "There mightiness person been paraphernalia suggestive of enactment that is deemphasizing homicide (perhaps incorrectly) to the investigators due to the fact that that nonfiction is rather tepid. It is filled with precise cautious connection (surely taken close from constabulary property releases), which mightiness beryllium intentional to not provender into what is present turning into aggravated scrutiny implicit each suspicious decease successful New England."

At slightest 4 of the victims successful these 8  cases — 2 successful Connecticut, 1 successful Rhode Island and present 1 successful Massachusetts — person been identified arsenic women. Police besides judge the unfortunate recovered successful Killingly, Connecticut, was a pistillate successful her 40s to 60s, though her individuality has not been confirmed.

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The New England Serial Killer Facebook group, which present has 65,300 members, has garnered much than 15,000 caller members this month, arsenic MassLive.com archetypal reported.

Searches for "New England serial killer" connected Google spiked astir April 7, according to information from the hunt engine.