Is there a New England serial killer? Former FBI agent with regional ties reveals his theory

New England authorities are not sharing "enough" accusation to quash speculation astir a serial slayer pursuing the caller discoveries of 12 sets of quality remains betwixt March and April, according to erstwhile FBI teacher and certified constabulary teacher Scott Duffey.

The discoveries of 12 quality remains successful Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts betwixt March and April, with fewer details from constabulary arsenic to however the 12 victims died, person prompted rumors of a serial slayer online. 

"From what I've seen oregon heard, archetypal and foremost, not capable is being enactment retired there, truthful we'll proceed to make that serial slayer idea," Duffey said of societal media sleuths. "But astatine the aforesaid time, thing has been said to marque immoderate benignant of transportation [between victims]. And truthful that's what leads maine down to … fto instrumentality enforcement proceed to reply the questions that they request to answer. But thing that I person seen would originate to a serial slayer [being] liable for immoderate oregon astir of these radical who person been found."

The erstwhile FBI investigator, who is primitively from Norwalk, said that aft looking into what accusation was disposable astir the 12 deaths, helium reassured his household of his content that determination is not a serial slayer roaming New England.

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This representation shows the locations wherever bodies person been recovered successful New England. (Fox News)

"I personally don't deliberation there's anybody connected the escaped targeting women successful New England … on the waterways and pathways," Duffey said. "But astatine the aforesaid time, you tin disregard a serial slayer retired there, but don't fto your defender down. … An idiosyncratic who's looking to instrumentality vantage of a susceptible concern volition bash so. … I ever speech astir the buddy system. If you're going retired running, if you're going retired determination dark, and you're going to beryllium extracurricular … walking, trailing, whatever, instrumentality idiosyncratic with you, person your telephone and conscionable beryllium alert of your surroundings."

"I personally don't deliberation there's anybody connected the escaped targeting women successful New England … on the waterways and pathways."

Of the 12 bodies recovered successful the 3 states implicit the past 2 months, fewer developments person been made successful the victims' respective cases, but constabulary are investigating each of them. 

Last week, however, Connecticut constabulary arrested a antheral named Donald Coffel successful transportation with the execution of a Groton woman, his roommate, Suzanne Wormser, who was recovered dismembered and stuffed into a suitcase successful March. Police said a preliminary probe revealed that helium allegedly murdered her implicit an statement astir ace cocaine.

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Donald Coffel appears virtually for an April 28, 2025, proceeding from a infirmary due to the fact that helium has cancer. (FOX 61)

The Connecticut State Police precocious told Fox News Digital 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.

Other remains person been located successful New Haven, Norwalk, Groton, Killingly and Rocky Hill, Connecticut; Foster and Pawtucket, Rhode Island; and Framingham, Plymouth, Springfield and 2 bodies successful Taunton, Massachusetts. Some societal media sleuths accidental these discoveries of quality remains, peculiarly pistillate remains, successful the 3 neighboring states whitethorn bespeak a serial killer, but constabulary person made nary denotation of that being the case.

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

"It doesn't instrumentality a batch to make a conspiracy," Duffey said. "And erstwhile you person a vacuum of accusation … and past 1 idiosyncratic puts out, really, somewhat of a logical idea, and past it catches, and past radical commencement pursuing that thought adjacent though there's nary grounds to backmost it up."

"It doesn't instrumentality a batch to make a conspiracy."

The serial slayer rumors, which stem from a backstage Facebook radical with astir 70,000 users each searching for answers surrounding these caller morbid discoveries, besides led Rhode Island constabulary connected a hunt for clandestine graves on Narragansett Beach past week aft an anonymous subordinate of the radical made an eerie confession that prompted the Narragansett constabulary to investigate.

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"It looked similar idiosyncratic was trying to get a rise. I mean, helium referenced Rick Rolling [in] the group, helium referenced this being prose. One of his poems really spelled retired the connection ‘hoax’ if you spelled retired the archetypal missive of the paragraphs," Det. Sgt. Brent Kuzman told Fox News Digital connected Thursday. "So, it seemed beauteous evident that this was benignant of a thing thing, but I ne'er privation to beryllium the idiosyncratic that didn't bash something."

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Police successful Narragansett, R.I., investigated a study astir clandestine graves. (John Greim/Loop Images/Universal Images Group)

His chap officers agreed, and they expensed immoderate resources for searches connected April 21 and again connected April 22 with cadaver dogs. The searches came up negative.

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Duffey believes constabulary successful the country who are called to respond to suspicious deaths volition person their oculus connected the Facebook leafage and related societal media discussions.

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"The enigma is decidedly a hook," helium said. "And conscionable similar anybody else, I'm waiting for much and much answers to travel out. But also, I deliberation with what has travel out, I consciousness powerfully that it is conscionable that – a acceptable of circumstances that caught a societal media whirlwind – and present instrumentality enforcement has to benignant of temper it down with grounds and accusation coming from credible sources."

The Facebook radical has garnered astir 20,000 caller members implicit the past month. Searches for "New England serial killer" connected Google spiked astir April 7, according to information from the hunt engine.