The Beachtown Police Department on Rhode Island has searched for a secret grave following rumors of a New England serial killer spreading like wildfires on social media.
The rumor stems from the discovery of eight remains in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts between March and April, fueling the hysteria of potential New England serial killers on Facebook, Tiktok and other social media.
But so far, local and state police have not linked any of the eight deaths, and it is unclear how many of the victims have been killed in the murder.
“Last week, Narragansett Police recognized awareness of the online circulating posts that the author posted anonymously to a Facebook group dedicated to a New England serial killer,” Narragansett Police wrote on Facebook Thursday. “Only group administrators were able to see the individual’s actual username. The post hinted at the possibility that multiple bodies could have been buried in the Black Point area of Scarborough Beach.”
The private Facebook group, previously known as the “New England Serial Killers,” has lost its name due to Facebook’s policy, but has more than 65,300 members.
Last week, an anonymous member of the group made an eerie confession, urging Narragansett police to investigate.
“It looked like someone was trying to raise a rise. He referenced Rick rolling into the group and mentioned it was prose. One of his poems actually spelled out the word ‘hoologies’ if he spelled out the first letter of the paragraph,” Sergeant. Brent Kuzman told Fox News Digital on Thursday. “So it seemed pretty obvious that this wasn’t a kind of thing, but I never want to be someone who never did anything.”
His fellow officers agreed, and they spent some resources on Monday and Tuesday again on a search with the corpse dog.
“It was negative,” Kuzman said of the post.
“The detective, along with two Risp Cadaver K9s, conducted an extensive search of the area with negative consequences on secret graves,” Narragansett PD said in a Facebook post.
Detective Narragansett has also been in touch with the FBI on the issue. ”
“Obviously you can see it as a waste of resources, but we were making sure it wasn’t entirely true. So it’s that double sword. It’s like responding to a fire alarm in high school,” Kuzman said. “You have to do it all the time, and you don’t want to respond that it’s a benefit to the person doing it, but you want to do your due diligence and make sure there’s nothing to worry about.”
“As we know… a nosy neighbor solved multiple crimes,” Kuzman said.
Over the past two months, a set of eight or human remains has been found in New Haven, Groton, Norwalk and Killley, Connecticut. Foster, Rhode Island. Framingham, Plymouth, and now Springfield, Massachusetts.
Some social media detectives say these findings of human bodies across three neighboring states, particularly the female bodies, may indicate serial killers, but police have not shown that.
The Facebook group has gained over 15,000 new members over the course of several weeks.
Within the Facebook group, Kuzman said, “We have to have some kind of confirmation bias because we are in the group for this reason,” and it is possible that members are creating connections between cases that are not relevant.
According to search engine data, Google’s search for “New England Serial Killer” was spiked around April 7th.
