Massachusetts officials are investigating the death of a woman who was found unresponsive on a bike path in Springfield on Tuesday.
Springfield Police Department spokesman Ryan Walsh said officers responded to reports of unresponsive people near the bike path in the 1500 block of Hall of Fame Avenue.
Upon arrival, officers found a woman who was declared dead soon after.
“The SPD murder unit, under Captain Trent Duda’s command, is working with the @hampdenda murder squad to conduct an unmanned death investigation and is awaiting an autopsy by the prosecutor,” Walsh said.
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Downtown Main Street in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA (istock)
The death of the woman comes amid rumors circulating online about a possible New England serial killer, mostly after the deaths of seven and eight people between March and April in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. As of Wednesday, authorities had not announced any relationship between the deaths of the eight victims.
Walsh told Fox News Digital that the cause of death would be determined by a medical examiner, adding, “That’s exactly the only rumors about the internet.”
Rumors began to spread on Facebook groups called “New England serial killers.” This has been renamed due to Facebook rules and regulations. For the past two months, human remains have been found in the chillary New Haven, Norwalk, Groton, Connecticut. Foster, Rhode Island. and Framingham, Plymouth and now Springfield, Massachusetts. Some social media users say these discoveries of human remains, particularly women’s bodies, across three adjacent states, could indicate serial killers.
A set of human remains was found in Groton, Connecticut. (istock)
However, Connecticut State Police told Fox News Digital last week that “at this time there is no information to suggest a connection to similar findings, and at this time there is no known threat to the public.”
Peter Valentin, chairman of the forensic medical school at Henry C. Lee, University of New Haven’s College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, told Fox News Digital that police responded to reports of people who were unresponsive.
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The body of the 35-year-old missing woman was found on the fast moving Norwalk River after heavy rain the night before. (istock)
“If someone is doing full Mortis, you don’t need to find a pulse, as Mortis’ strict presence means they are clearly dead. So this is a very recent death.[NewEnglandserialkiller”Valentinsaid[NewEnglandserialkiller”Valentinsaid
Some of the bodies found in three New England states in the past two months have been identified as unharmed, but some have deteriorated in that it takes time for authorities to determine who the victim was. In other words, the bodies were placed over two months, but that does not indicate that the victim died almost simultaneously.
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Valentin noted that Springfield police have not yet decided whether the woman’s death was a murder.
A woman was found dead on April 22nd near a bike path in Springfield, Massachusetts. (John Graeme/Light Rocket)
“I’m interested in what’s recovering around my body,” he said. “The article is so stuffed toys, so there may have been tools to suggest an activity that is being emphasized (probably wrongly) to the investigator. It is filled with very careful language (which is certainly taken from a police press release).
At least four victims in these eight cases — two in Connecticut, one in Rhode Island and one in Massachusetts — have been identified as women. Police also believe that the victims found in the Connecticut murder are women in their 40s and 60s, but her identity has not been confirmed.
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The New England serial killer Facebook group, which currently has 65,300 members, has attracted more than 15,000 new members this month. MassLive.com was first reported.
According to search engine data, Google searched for “New England Serial Killer” around April 7th.
