New England serial killer fears stoked by 12th body found in 3 months, 2 in same small town

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Authorities successful New England recovered a assemblage down a schoolhouse successful Massachusetts and are suspecting foul play, adding to the fig of radical recovered dormant successful the portion since February.

The Bristol County District Attorney's Office said Stephan Myers, 39, was recovered down Bristol Plymouth High School successful Taunton, Massachusetts astatine a operation tract aboriginal Wednesday morning, according to Boston 25. Officials said Meyers was changeable 1 clip and was recovered deceased.

Authorities said determination isn't a transportation betwixt Myers and the school.

In a statement, the Bristol Plymouth High School successful Taunton told WPRI determination was nary menace to students oregon unit and the gathering wasn't placed connected lockdown.

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Authorities successful Taunton, Massachusetts recovered a assemblage down a precocious school. (WPRI)

Myers is the 12th assemblage to person been recovered since February successful the New England area, fueling fears online that determination could beryllium a serial slayer successful the area.

On March 25, a abstracted assemblage was recovered successful Taunton. The idiosyncratic was identified arsenic Samuel Stovall, 51, and authorities said his decease hasn't been deemed suspicious.

New England instrumentality enforcement officials person truthful acold denied these deaths are connected with a serial killer.

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

The assemblage of Meggan Meridith, 45, of Springfield, Massachusetts, was recovered connected March 22.

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

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Taunton, Massachusetts authorities are suspecting foul play successful the decease of Stephan Myers. (WPRI )

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

"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 thinks detectives aren't 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."

Taunton is simply a metropolis successful Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the spot of Bristol County. (Getty Images)

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

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

However, Fox News contributor and forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden told Fox News Digital helium doesn't spot a pattern.

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