New England Serial Killer

Fourteen bodies have been found across New England. This has sparked rumors of a possible serial killer. Police have tried to debunk these rumors, but the killings include bodies being dismembered which forces the public into believing there is a serial killer.

            Recently, New England authorities are not sharing information to decrease speculations about a serial killer because of the discovery of 12 sets of human remains between March and April.

            Since early March, authorities have found human remains, primarily of women, in places like Framingham, Plymouth, and several Connecticut towns, including New Haven and Killingly, as well as Foster, Rhode Island. 

On March 6, the remains of a woman, Paige Fannon, 35, of West Islip, N.Y., were found in the Norwalk River near the abandoned Grist Mill Road Bridge in Norwalk, near the Wilton border, police said.

That same day, March 6, a human skull was found in the woods off Route 3 in Plymouth, on the Massachusetts coast. Authorities have not yet determined age or gender.

On March 19, human remains were found near the Colonel Ledyard Cemetery in the seaside Connecticut town of Groton. The remains belong to a female between the ages of 40 and 60 and were left near the cemetery in mid-February. The woman may have been missing before that. Her remains were found in a suitcase, police said.

March 21, the body of a third Connecticut woman, identified as Denise Leary, 59, was found in New Haven, about 40 minutes away from Norwalk, according to New Haven Police, NBC Connecticut reports. She was announced missing in august. 

Police identified another body pulled from the Connecticut River in Rocky Hill as a woman who had been missing from Glastonbury since March, 72-year-old Mary Colasanto.

Five days after that, the body of a woman was found in the woods in Foster, R.I., police said.

Michele Romano, 56, was reported missing from the coastal town of Warwick in August. Her death has been determined to be suspicious in nature, police said. Authorities have not yet said how she died.

On March 25, a separate body was found in Taunton. The individual was identified as Samuel Stovall, 51.

            The body of 45 year old Meggan Meredith was found in a secluded area on a Tuesday morning in April 2025. The Hampden District Attorney’s office confirmed her identity and announced that her death was being investigated as a homicide.

After Meredith’s body was found last week, Hampden County DA Anthony Gulluni released a statement with the title, “in response to recent incidents of violence in our community.” 

“We understand the unease that comes with such acts of violence, and we want the community to know that each of these cases is being thoroughly investigated in close coordination with our law enforcement partners,” Gulluni said in a statement. “Our hearts go out to the families who are grieving.”

A 56-year-old woman’s body was later found in the woods near Springfield’s Camp Angelina, this caused thousands of people joining online groups to discuss fears of a possible serial killer.

April 9, human remains were found on Woodward St. in Killingly, the Connecticut State Police told PEOPLE in an email. They have not yet been identified. 

            Authorities in New England found a body behind a school in Massachusetts adding to the number of people found dead in the region since February.

Another case, Stephan Myers, 39, was found behind Bristol Plymouth High School in Taunton, Massachusetts at a construction site early Wednesday morning. Officials said Meyers was shot one time and was found deceased.

Myers is the 14th body to have been found since February in the New England area, fueling fears online that there could be a serial killer in the area. 

            Despite all of the accusations, authorities presume there is no serial killer because none of the deaths have similar patterns besides the locations and the majority being female.

“I think it would be wise for the investigators to share details of their cases as they are uncovered, so that they can rule in or out the possibility that these cases are linked. The Gilgo Beach murders were not initially thought to be linked, but over time the thinking about the cases shifted as evidence began to mount and point towards the same perpetrator.  Only time will tell if that will happen in this situation too,” NHS forensic science teacher Bridget Berechid said.

“We need to know more about the actual cases and the actual bodies that they are finding like what’s their synopsis, are they related? Are they not? Could this be a group of people that’s doing this? Were they sex workers? Were they not?” NHS security guard Shanta said, “Are there missing persons reports on them? Since it’s mostly women, what I think of is Gilgo Beach in Rhode Island when all the women were going missing and no one took it seriously until that one woman kept advocating for her daughter, so that’s my opinion” 

“My opinion is that it’s not an actual serial killer and that it’s a made up story that’s been spreading throughout the internet… with what’s found in CT they are all so different, like one is skeletal remains meaning they were there for a long time and the others were normal bodies meaning they were there for a short period of time. Obviously if they are across certain towns we would connect with the investigators in each town. We would have to look at how the body was killed or what weapons they used like one of them was stabbed versus shot versus strangled so they are all different meaning it's unlikely the same person who did all three,” NHS school resource officer SRO McDermott said.