New England investigators 'not ruling out anything' amid serial killer fears: Former homicide detective

New England authorities are not "ruling retired anything" aft 11 bodies were recovered successful the portion since the opening of March, a erstwhile homicide detective said.

Since March 1, a full of 11 bodies person been recovered successful Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts, fueling fears online that determination could beryllium a serial slayer successful the area. 

So far, instrumentality enforcement officials successful New England person denied the beingness of a serial killer.

Detectives recovered the assemblage of Paige Fannon, 35, successful the Norwalk River successful Norwalk, Connecticut, successful aboriginal March.

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Norwalk constabulary besides identified the remains of 35-year-old Paige Fannon of West Islip, New York, connected March 6. Her remains were recovered successful the swiftly moving Norwalk River aft dense rainfall the nighttime before. (iStock)

The assemblage of Meggan Meridith, 45, of Springfield, Massachusetts, was recovered past Tuesday and identified earlier this week.

On March 6, a quality skull was discovered successful a wooded country disconnected of Route 3 successful Plymouth, Massachusetts. Authorities person not released immoderate further details.

When speaking to reporters, Hampden District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni downplayed concerns that determination mightiness beryllium a serial killer.

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"While online conversations astir these incidents proceed to grow, we impulse the nationalist to beryllium mindful of the relation that societal media tin play successful spreading fearfulness oregon misinformation," Gulluni said. "Unverified claims tin compromise progressive investigations and lend to a consciousness of chaos that does not bespeak the afloat picture."

Former Washington, D.C., homicide detective Ted Williams told Fox News Digital helium believes detectives successful New England are not ruling thing out.

"The investigators who are conducting these investigations are not ruling retired thing whatsoever astatine this signifier of the investigation," Williams said. "They are chiefly astatine the preliminary stages of gathering grounds astatine each 1 of these decease scenes to effort to found a nexus betwixt those scenes and a azygous idiosyncratic oregon individuals."

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A representation showing the locations of wherever bodies successful the New England country person been found. (Fox News)

"I don't deliberation astatine this signifier they're waving disconnected a serial killer," Williams said.

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Williams added that helium believes authorities are trying to "connect the dots, if the dots connect" betwixt the locations wherever the individuals were found.

"Some of these deaths whitethorn precise good beryllium of not a transgression situation. They're trying to marque a connection. And the accusation that they're providing the nationalist is accusation that they judge the nationalist much oregon little whitethorn need," Williams said.

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Taunton is simply a metropolis successful Bristol County, Massachusetts. (Getty Images)

Fox News contributor and forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden told Fox News Digital, however, that helium does not spot a signifier betwixt the deaths oregon wherever the assemblage was found.

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"There truly is nary rather distinct, wide signifier of each of this," Baden said. 

Fox News Digital's Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.