SageRhiannon
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I am hoping the upcoming documentary sheds more light on this.
This is my summary of what I was able to get from the book. I am not sure this helps, but you never know.
Skeleton #1 found on 7/2/88 on Rt 140 - Debra Medeiros, 30, last seen late May 1988 - found on back, arms & legs thrust outward, feet toward highway - recently suffered a broken jaw, bones of mouth still wired together - Panties bunched, dropped to side; Bra still twisted around neck - short, small framed - prostitute, drug user.
Skeleton #2 found on 7/30/88 on I195 - Nancy Paiva, 36, last seen 7/7/88 - found on back, no clothing, feet toward highway - short, small framed - drug user.
Skeleton #3 found on 11/8/88 on I195 - Deborah Greenlaw DeMello, 35, last seen 7/11/88 - found clothing up in trees near body - some identified as belonging to other victims, in particular Nancy Paiva - jewelry belonging to Nancy also found at site - prostitute, drug user.
Skeleton #4 found on 11/29/88 on I195 - Dawn Mendes, 25, last seen 9/4/88 - prostitute, drug user.
Skeleton #5 found on 12/1/88 on Rt 140 - Deborah McConnell, 25, last seen May 1988 - fully clothed - a sack of spare clothes lay nearby - drug user.
Skeleton #6 found on 12/10/88 near I195 - Rochelle Clifford, 28, last seen late April 1988 - partially clothed - not right next to highway - possible prostitute, drug user.
Skeleton #7 found on 3/28/89 on Rt 140 - Robin Rhodes, 28, last seen April 1988 - drug user.
Skeleton #8 found on 3/30/89 on Rt 88 - Mary Rose Santos, 26, last seen 7/16/88 - no clothing - somewhat heavy framed - drug user.
Skeleton #9 found on 4/24/89 on I195 - Sandra Botelho, 24, last seen 8/11/88 - no clothing, body found in fetal position - Prostitute, drug user.
Missing:
Marilyn Roberts, 34, last seen June 1988
Christine Monteiro, 19, last seen late May 1988.
Other comments in book about victims:
Not all victims were prostitutes; Several of the skeletons found in fetal-like positions; Police collected articles of clothing with semen present; White pick up truck suspected as being involved.
That's interesting- so they have DNA!
I didn't realize that. being a cold case, I wonder if they've rerun it recently against any databases of convicted sex offenders. Or if the case is just languishing.
I lived not too far from the area when the bodies were discovered, and then a couple of years later ended up spending a lot of time on the New Bedford area where many of the women frequented (for grad school) as well as participating in an athletic group with a large number of people who were in recovery in Fall River. Some of these people travelled the same circles as the victims, so it was a topic that kept resurfacing.
I hope the advances in DNA research could help offer some leads or at least bring the NB case back into the spotlight.
A side note: most of the NB victims were ethnically Portuguese. For a while that seemed to be something that investigators honed in on, and their main POI were also largely Portuguese if I remember correctly. But that could just be a coincidence since New Bedford and Fall River had a huge Portuguese population at the time. Many immigrant families from Portugal and the Azores came to the area work in the fabric mills (Fall River) and fishing/shipping (New Bedford) industries. When those industries dried up, these communities were hit very hard and there was a lot of poverty within them.
Read that where
What on earth does this mean?
I just don't see the New Bedford murders being related and I strongly believe SK's mo evolve over time. It's just such a drastic difference that doesn't make much sense. He kills 11 people in 6 months, none dismembered all dumped along the same highway...then he goes back to LI and kills one or two people every few years, dismembers them and spreads their remains very far apart?
It makes sense to me because I do not believe the dismembered victims are related to G4.
Then it makes even less sense because you have a 20 year gap between victims lol
Yes that gap is troublesome. I have a few other murders I believe may be related, but still a significant gap. There are SKs that take breaks & then return. If New Bedford is related, my only guess would be that the SK stopped for whatever reason or there are other victims attributed to him between those years.
Which other murders in that gap do you think are related? There are a few that I think could be (just curious if there's any overlap)
The book is wrong. There is no DNA from New Bedford. The victims they linked, including 4 that aren't named, were too decomposed.
Or he moved back to Long island. Also, note that there were women killed on the highway that one would take from massachusetts to the port jeff ferry in bridgeport back to CT. I believe these occurred while LH was in law school.