New England serial killer fears merit 'review and investigation' after remains found across 3 states: expert

At slightest 7 quality remains recovered crossed Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts betwixt March and April warrant "review and investigation," according to Pennsylvania-based transgression defence lawyer and erstwhile Lawrence County District Attorney Matthew Mangino.

Over the past 2 months, quality remains person been located successful New Haven, Norwalk, Groton and Killingly, Connecticut; Foster, Rhode Island; and Framingham and Plymouth, Massachusetts. 

It is unclear astatine this constituent if the deaths of these 7 victims are related successful immoderate way, and Connecticut State Police told Fox News Digital connected Tuesday 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. 

Internet sleuths who are portion of a backstage Facebook leafage with tens of thousands of members, however, person prompted speculation astir a lone-wolf perpetrator. 

"Whether it's coincidental oregon not, I deliberation it merits reappraisal and investigation, astatine least," Mangino told Fox News Digital. "Collaboration betwixt the antithetic jurisdictions to find whether oregon not determination is immoderate menace retired determination to individuals — that whitethorn beryllium going connected arsenic we speak. We don't cognize that, but I deliberation it does merit that benignant of scrutiny."

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Part of that investigation, Mangino said, should see looking for immoderate benignant of "patterns" betwixt the respective deaths oregon transgression scenes.

"These antithetic jurisdictions request to get unneurotic and comparison notes and reports. You tin initially spot if determination are immoderate similarities betwixt these deaths," Mangino said. "Were these homicides? I mean, we whitethorn find that these are earthy deaths oregon … it could beryllium a suicide, it could beryllium accidental. So, the fig 1 contented is: is determination capable to find the origin and mode of death?"

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Sometimes a serial slayer whitethorn person a process of "staging" bodies oregon targeting circumstantial victims who stock definite carnal features oregon backgrounds.

"It surely merits probe and review."

Brian Higgins, adjunct module subordinate astatine John Jay College of Criminal Justice and erstwhile main of constabulary and manager of nationalist information successful Bergen County, New Jersey, noted that 3 of the victims successful these 7 cases person been identified arsenic women. Police besides judge the unfortunate recovered successful Killingly was a pistillate successful her 40s to 60s.

Norwalk, Connecticut, constabulary identified the remains of a 35-year-old pistillate successful the swiftly moving Norwalk River connected March 6 aft dense rainfall the nighttime before. (iStock)

"Well, you person the remains of 7 radical — that doesn't mean needfully each 7 are [victims] of a serial killer," Higgins said. "It could be, aboriginal on, you know, 2 oregon 3 victims. But it brought attraction to these deaths, and that's a affirmative mode to look astatine that."

The relatives of Michele Romano, the unfortunate recovered successful Rhode Island past month, person said her decease was not related to a serial slayer successful a station connected the Facebook leafage "Justice for Michele Romano."

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"In airy of the caller comments being made, we cognize that Michele’s passing is successful nary mode related to immoderate benignant of serial killer," the household wrote. "We person implicit religion successful the Rhode Island State Police and our Private Investigator that the idiosyncratic liable volition beryllium brought to justness sooner alternatively than later!"

Fox News Digital reached retired to Rhode Island State Police.

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

Higgins said portion 7 discoveries of remains successful a geographically adjacent portion implicit 2 months is "unusual," "just due to the fact that they're discovered successful a abbreviated magnitude of clip doesn't mean needfully that they're connected successful a timeline arsenic acold arsenic death."

While the remains were located implicit the span of 2 months, that does not bespeak the victims died astir the aforesaid time. The remains discovered successful Massachusetts, for example, were respective months old, according to police.

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Higgins and Mangino pointed to societal media arsenic some a instrumentality and a hindrance for constabulary looking into these antithetic cases.

One acceptable of the quality remains was discovered successful Framingham, Massachusetts. (iStock)

"True transgression is the hottest happening connected television, connected podcasts and societal media," Mangino said. "Certainly, determination are times erstwhile these amateur sleuths tin beryllium adjuvant to instrumentality enforcement, but what it does is it creates a batch of…tension. At times it tin marque things hard for investigators who are trying to stay open-minded and not make immoderate benignant of passageway imaginativeness where, each of a sudden, there's interest successful the assemblage and panic due to the fact that radical judge there's a serial killer, and they're calling instrumentality enforcement connected neighbors due to the fact that they deliberation they are acting suspicious."

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Higgins likewise said that societal media "is considered successful instrumentality enforcement arsenic a two-edged sword."

"In immoderate respect … it could constituent instrumentality enforcement to different similarities oregon successful a absorption they wouldn't usually person gone. Somebody, conscionable 1 idiosyncratic arsenic portion of this group, mightiness rise an contented that volition beryllium that 1 thread that connects us," Higgins said. "The different side, of course, is it's fueling each this attraction connected this, and it whitethorn negatively interaction the instrumentality enforcement officers … due to the fact that present you've astir tainted a witnesser pool. People person this slant already that this is simply a serial killer, and these radical were each killed by homicide. So it tin interfere."

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The New England Serial Killer Facebook group, which has 57,000 members, garnered much than 10,000 caller members past week and implicit the weekend, arsenic MassLive.com archetypal reported.

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