Massachusetts authorities are investigating the dying of a lady discovered unresponsive off a motorbike path in Springfield on Tuesday.
Springfield Police Division spokesperson Ryan Walsh mentioned officers responded to studies of an unresponsive individual close to a motorbike path on the 1500 block of Corridor of Fame Avenue.
Upon arrival, officers found a lady who was pronounced lifeless shortly after.
“The SPD Murder Unit below the course Captain Trent Duda is conducting an unattended dying investigation at the side of the @HampdenDA Homicide Unit, pending an post-mortem by the Medical Examiner,” Walsh mentioned.
The girl’s dying comes amid rumors circulating on-line a few potential New England serial killer following the deaths of seven and now eight individuals, largely girls, between March and April in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. As of Wednesday, authorities haven’t introduced any type of connection between the eight victims’ deaths.
Walsh advised Fox Information Digital that the lady’s reason for dying shall be decided by a health worker, and added that “web rumors are simply that.”
The rumors started circulating on a Fb group referred to as “New England Serial Killer,” which has since modified its identify because of Fb guidelines and rules. Over the past two months, human stays have been situated in New Haven, Norwalk, Groton and Killingly, Connecticut; Foster, Rhode Island; and Framingham, Plymouth and now Springfield, Massachusetts. Some social media customers say these discoveries of human stays — notably, feminine stays — throughout the three neighboring states might point out a serial killer.
However Connecticut State Police advised Fox Information Digital final week that “there isn’t a data at the moment suggesting any connection to related stays discoveries, and there’s additionally no recognized menace to the general public at the moment,” relating to the deaths in Connecticut.
Peter Valentin, chair of the Forensic Science Division on the College of New Haven’s Henry C. Lee Faculty of Felony Justice and Forensic Sciences, advised Fox Information Digital the truth that police responded to studies of an unresponsive individual “is strongly suggestive of somebody who didn’t have any autopsy artifacts that will negate the necessity to test for very important indicators wanted to make a pronouncement.”
“If somebody is in full rigor mortis, there isn’t a must attempt to discover a pulse as a result of the presence of rigor mortis means they’re unequivocally lifeless. So this can be a very latest dying, in contrast to the others which are being attributed to the [New England serial killer,” Valentin mentioned.
Whereas among the stays discovered throughout the three New England states over the past two months had been intact our bodies which have been recognized, others had been degraded to the purpose that it’ll take time for authorities to establish who the victims had been. In different phrases, whereas the stays had been situated over the span of two months, that doesn’t point out the victims died across the identical time.
Valentin famous that Springfield police haven’t but decided whether or not the lady’s dying was a murder.
“I’m inquisitive about what was recovered across the physique,” he mentioned. “There may need been paraphernalia suggestive of exercise that’s deemphasizing murder (maybe incorrectly) to the investigators as a result of that article is kind of tepid. It’s crammed with very cautious language (absolutely taken proper from police press releases), which is perhaps intentional to not feed into what’s now turning into intense scrutiny over each suspicious dying in New England.”
No less than 4 of the victims in these eight circumstances — two in Connecticut, one in Rhode Island and now one in Massachusetts — have been recognized as girls. Police additionally imagine the sufferer present in Killingly, Connecticut, was a lady in her 40s to 60s, although her identification has not been confirmed.
The New England Serial Killer Fb group, which now has 65,300 members, has garnered greater than 15,000 new members this month, as MassLive.com first reported.
Searches for “New England serial killer” on Google spiked round April 7, based on information from the search engine.
