Massachusetts authorities are investigating the demise of a girl discovered unresponsive off a motorbike path in Springfield on Tuesday.
Springfield Police Division spokesperson Ryan Walsh mentioned officers responded to studies of an unresponsive particular person 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 Homicide Unit under the direction Captain Trent Duda is conducting an unattended death investigation in conjunction with the @HampdenDA Murder Unit, pending an autopsy by the Medical Examiner,” Walsh mentioned.
The lady’s demise comes amid rumors circulating on-line a couple of doable New England serial killer following the deaths of seven and now eight folks, largely ladies, 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 instructed Fox Information Digital that the girl’s reason behind demise can be decided by a health worker, and added that “internet rumors are just that.”
The rumors started circulating on a Fb group referred to as “New England Serial Killer,” which has since modified its title on account of Fb guidelines and laws. 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 could point out a serial killer.
However Connecticut State Police instructed Fox Information Digital final week that “there is no information at this time suggesting any connection to similar remains discoveries, and there is also no known threat to the public at this time,” concerning the deaths in Connecticut.
Peter Valentin, chair of the Forensic Science Division on the College of New Haven’s Henry C. Lee School of Legal Justice and Forensic Sciences, instructed Fox Information Digital the truth that police responded to studies of an unresponsive particular person “is strongly suggestive of someone who did not have any post-mortem artifacts that would negate the need to check for vital signs needed to make a pronouncement.”
“If someone is in full rigor mortis, there is no need to try to find a pulse because the presence of rigor mortis means they are unequivocally dead. So this is a very recent death, unlike the others that are being attributed to the [New England serial killer,” Valentin mentioned.
Whereas a number of the stays discovered throughout the three New England states during the last 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 similar time.
Valentin famous that Springfield police haven’t but decided whether or not the girl’s demise was a murder.
“I am curious about what was recovered around the body,” he mentioned. “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.”
Not 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 ladies. Police additionally imagine the sufferer present in Killingly, Connecticut, was a girl in her 40s to 60s, although her id 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, in response to knowledge from the search engine.
