Massachusetts authorities are investigating the loss of life of a girl discovered unresponsive off a motorbike path in Springfield on Tuesday.
Springfield Police Division spokesperson Ryan Walsh mentioned officers responded to reviews of an unresponsive individual close to a motorbike path on the 1500 block of Corridor of Fame Avenue.
Upon arrival, officers found a girl who was pronounced lifeless shortly after.
“The SPD Murder Unit below the course Captain Trent Duda is conducting an unattended loss of life investigation at the side of the @HampdenDA Homicide Unit, pending an post-mortem by the Medical Examiner,” Walsh mentioned.
The lady’s loss of life comes amid rumors circulating on-line a couple of attainable 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 form of connection between the eight victims’ deaths.
Walsh advised Fox Information Digital that the girl’s reason for loss of life might be decided by a medical expert, and added that “web rumors are simply that.”
The rumors started circulating on a Fb group known as “New England Serial Killer,” which has since modified its title as a consequence of Fb guidelines and laws. Over the past two months, human stays have been positioned 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 any info presently suggesting any connection to related stays discoveries, and there may be additionally no recognized menace to the general public presently,” concerning the deaths in Connecticut.
Peter Valentin, chair of the Forensic Science Division on the College of New Haven’s Henry C. Lee Faculty of Prison Justice and Forensic Sciences, advised Fox Information Digital the truth that police responded to reviews 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 any must attempt to discover a pulse as a result of the presence of rigor mortis means they’re unequivocally lifeless. So it is a very latest loss of life, not like the others which can be being attributed to the [New England serial killer,” Valentin said.
While some of the remains found across the three New England states over the last two months were intact bodies that have been identified, others were degraded to the point that it will take time for authorities to identify who the victims were. In other words, while the remains were located over the span of two months, that does not indicate the victims died around the same time.
Valentin noted that Springfield police have not yet determined whether the woman’s death was a homicide.
“I am curious about what was recovered around the body,” he said. “There might have been paraphernalia suggestive of activity that is deemphasizing homicide (perhaps incorrectly) to the investigators because that article is quite tepid. It is filled with very cautious language (surely taken right from police press releases), which might be intentional to not feed into what is now turning into intense scrutiny over every suspicious death in New England.”
At least four of the victims in these eight cases — two in Connecticut, one in Rhode Island and now one in Massachusetts — have been identified as women. Police also believe the victim found in Killingly, Connecticut, was a woman in her 40s to 60s, though her identity has not been confirmed.
The New England Serial Killer Facebook group, which now has 65,300 members, has garnered more than 15,000 new members this month, as MassLive.com first reported.
Searches for “New England serial killer” on Google spiked around April 7, according to data from the search engine.
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