SPRINGFIELD - "I'm innocent!" Alfred J. Gaynor yelled as he was hauled away in handcuffs from a Pittsfield courtroom nine years ago.
Convicted of murdering four women in what prosecutors portrayed as a string of serial killings, Gaynor maintained his innocence as he was sent off to spend the rest of his life behind bars.....
From 1990 until the time of Gaynor's arrest in April 1998, there were more than a dozen unsolved killings of women in Springfield; ten remain unsolved to this day.
Police are looking at Gaynor as a possible suspect in four more homicides from between April 1995 and November 1997, according to Capt. Robert T. McFarlin, head of the Criminal Investigations Bureau.
Specifically, he said, police are investigating whether he is involved in the following homicides:
--Vera E. Hallums, 34, who was found tied up, beaten and strangled in her Leland Drive apartment April 20, 1995;
--Jill Ann Ermellini, 34, found naked June 16, 1997, in the cab of a truck in an Indian Orchard junkyard;
--Robin M. Atkins, 29, found strangled, bound and gagged in a downtown alley on Oct. 25, 1997; and
--Yvette Torres, 33, whose partially clothed body was found in her Healy Street apartment on Nov. 15, 1997.
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