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The Connecticut Valley Killer's murders don't get enough attention.
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The Connecticut Valley Killer's murders don't get enough attention.

The Connecticut River Valley Killer (also known as the Valley Killer) is an unidentified serial killer who operated in the Connecticut River Valley region, primarily between New Hampshire and Vermont (USA), from 1978 to 1988. He is believed to be responsible for at least 7 murders of young women, with a consistent pattern: most victims were stabbed multiple times, often with deep cuts to the throat and chest/abdomen. Many bodies were dumped in remote, wooded areas near Interstate 91.

Key victims:

Catherine Millican (27, 1978): Was birdwatching in New London, NH. Found with at least 29 stab wounds near where she was last seen.

Mary Elizabeth "Betsy" Critchley (37, 1981): Disappeared while hitchhiking near the MA-VT border. Body found in Unity, NH.

Bernice Courtemanche (17, missing 1984): Nurse’s aide who hitchhiked in Claremont, NH. Remains found in 1986 in Kelleyville with stab wounds and slit throat.

Ellen Fried, Eva Morse, and others found in similar wooded dump sites.

Lynda Moore (36, 1986): Brutally stabbed inside her home in Saxtons River, VT, in a frenzied attack.

Barbara Agnew: Found in Hartland, VT.

Several bodies were discovered in a short period in 1985-1986, alerting authorities to a possible serial killer. Victims were often in vulnerable situations (hitchhiking or alone in isolated areas).

The case became even more notable on August 6, 1988, when Jane Boroski, 22 and seven months pregnant, was attacked in a parking lot in West Swanzey, NH. A man stabbed her 27 times, but she miraculously survived (along with her baby). She is the only known survivor and provided a description of the attacker. The killings stopped after this incident.

The case remains unsolved to this day. There is some debate about whether all cases are definitively linked, but the similarities in MO, locations, and wound patterns are compelling. No conclusive DNA or arrests have been made.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_River_Valley_Killer

u/Filipe_258 — 21 hours ago
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Attleboro woman pleads not guilty to murder in newborn son’s 1985 death

A woman has been charged with the murder of her newborn son more than 41 years ago in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Dianne Curry Peck, 59 has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge Tuesday and was released on $10,000 bail. She is going to have a huge uphill battle in court as it was proven to be her baby who was alive and well right after birth only to be left in the freezing winter which lead to his death.

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u/Dont_lookbehind — 3 days ago
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Why does the State of Wisconsin have ZERO custody or prison records for Jeffrey Dahmer? Inside the missing files anomaly.

Lionel Dahmer’s Story vs. The Missing Records

What if the ultimate "monster" of the 1990s was entirely manufactured?

In the attached video footage, Lionel Dahmer recalls visiting his son at Columbia Correctional Institution, anchoring a tragic family backstory that the public has bought into for over three decades.

https://reddit.com/link/1ump3og/video/zm5qhlcjq2bh1/player

But our investigation has uncovered a catastrophic flaw in this script: The state of Wisconsin has zero record of Jeffrey Dahmer ever being in custody—because his entire case wasn't a failure of bureaucracy. It was a highly orchestrated political hoax.

I’ve spent the last few months deeply investigating the official documentation surrounding the Jeffrey Dahmer case, and what I just uncovered genuinely defies explanation.

We all know the official script carved into public memory like scripture: Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in 1991, sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms in 1992, and beaten to death by Christopher Scarver at Columbia Correctional Institution in 1994.

Case closed. Monster vanquished.

But as an investigator, I don’t look at the media narrative. I look at the paper trail. And when I ran standard public records requests under Wisconsin law to look at Dahmer's Adult Institution Case File and pre-trial logs, the paper trail didn't just run cold. It completely vanished.

Here is exactly what I uncovered.

1. The 10% Archive That Literally Does Not Exist

Wisconsin Public Records Law (Wis. Statutes 19:31 - 19:39) establishes strict transparency protocols.

Per the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC), when a high-profile case file is closed, a mandatory 10% of the archives must be transferred to the State Historical Society for permanent preservation, while the remaining 90% is confidentially destroyed after 7 years.

I submitted public records request R038832-061125 for Dahmer’s complete Adult Institution Case File. When they claimed it was destroyed, I immediately followed up with records request case ID #534474, pushing for Termination File #432388 (the specific file number for Dahmer's closed status) directly from the Wisconsin Historical Society.

The response I received from the state historians was a total bombshell:

Read that again.

For the most notorious, historically significant “prisoner“ in Wisconsin history, the permanent archive is entirely blank.

No intake forms. No medical charts. No commissary logs. No visitor lists.

Nothing.

2. No Pre-Trial Detention Logs Either

I figured if the state prison records were somehow entirely lost to "bureaucracy," the county records from his initial arrest period (July 22, 1991, to February 17, 1992) would still be intact. During this time, Dahmer was reportedly held under the jurisdiction of the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office.

I reached out to the Milwaukee County Office of the Sheriff requesting his booking, intake, and disciplinary logs. The official response? “We have no records on file responsive to your request.”

We are looking at the complete, systemic erasure of what should be one of the most heavily documented incarcerations in American history.

The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office response to my public records request for Jeffrey Dahmer’s pre-trial detention records. The office states: “we have no records on file responsive to your request…”—a complete absence of booking, intake, and disciplinary logs for one of the most documented prisoners in U.S. history.

3. "Media Asset" or Maximum-Security Prisoner?

When you realize the records don't exist, the existing footage of Dahmer inside Columbia Correctional takes on a completely different, highly disturbing context. Look closely at the anomalies:

  • The Unrestrained Wardrobe: In his infamous April 1994 Stone Phillips interview with NBC, Dahmer is filmed walking completely freely through administrative hallways. He is wearing a full leather belt—a jarring detail for a maximum-security inmate who explicitly confessed to frequently strangling his victims with straps.
  • The Hollywood Talent Agent: My wider investigation uncovered documents indicating that the man we know as Jeffrey Dahmer was actually represented by the Metropolitan Talent Management Agency. A "serial killer" with a Hollywood agent negotiating his public appearances and film rights behind bars.
  • The Scripted Dialogue: In his February 1993 Inside Edition interview, Dahmer literally quotes lines from a 1992 horror-comedy movie about himself, passing them off as authentic "memories" of his crimes.

The ‘worst serial killer’ of modern times walks freely to his Stone Phillips TV interview in April 1994 (NBC). Notice the jarring detail: Dahmer is wearing a belt, despite having confessed to frequently strangling his victims with a strap.

Costume check for Dahmer: Just me, my slightly-too-long haircut, and my pre-Internet talk show interview drip.

The $30 Billion Agenda

When the paper trail completely vanishes, you have to look at who profits when the story stays alive. Every single interview, documentary segment, and staged walk through those hallways wasn't news—it was content creation building asset value for film rights.

But it goes deeper politically. The "Milwaukee Cannibal" narrative was carefully constructed to inject maximum terror into the American psyche at a critical legislative crossroads. By generating unprecedented public panic, the architects of this narrative successfully manufactured the political leverage needed to push through the authoritarian 1994 $30 Billion Crime Bill—the most aggressive, sweeping expansion of the carceral state in U.S. history.

I don't expect anyone to take my word for it. I want you to look at the institutional responses for yourselves.

Is it possible that a modern state bureaucracy 'accidentally' purged every single day-to-day document for its most famous inmate? Or are we looking at proof of an orchestrated psychological operation where the "monster" was nothing more than a managed media asset?

Let’s talk in the comments. I want to know if anyone else here has run into total document erasure when filing FOIA requests on high-profile Wisconsin cases from the 1990s.

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u/Emotional-Brief-1775 — 2 days ago
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Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann to serve life sentence at Elmira Correctional Facility, records show

Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann to serve life sentence at Elmira Correctional Facility, records show..

Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann will serve his life sentence at Elmira Correctional Facility, according to a listing added to the state Department of Corrections database Friday.

It was not immediately clear if Heuermann, 62, has been transferred to the facility yet. He was moved June 18 from Suffolk County to Green Haven Correctional Facility for admission procession, a DOC spokesperson said last week.

Authorities at Green Haven were to evaluate his criminal history, security risk, medical status, mental health and program needs, and then use that information to determine which state prison is the best fit for the serial killer.
Elmira Correctional Facility, often referred to as “The Hill,” is a maximum security facility in upstate Elmira, about 60 miles west of Binghamton and more than 270 miles from Heuermann’s hometown of Massapequa Park.

Heuermann was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole last Wednesday. He admitted April 8 to strangling eight women — Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Amber Lynn Costello, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Jessica Taylor, Sandra Costilla, Valerie Mack and Karen Vergata — and dumping their bodies across Suffolk County, including near Gilgo Beach. The killing spree began in 1993 and continued until 2010.

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u/CatchLISK — 3 days ago
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During Robert Blake’s Civil Trial (2005): “He’s going to be judged someplace else,” said Christian Brando.

During his testimony in Robert Blake civil trial in 2005, Christian Brando repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right because he did not want to become involved in what he viewed as unreasonable questioning from Blake’s attorneys, especially since he was not closely involved in the victim’s life during her marriage to Robert Blake. However, he told the judge:

“This has been going on for five years. Mr. Blake’s been pointing the finger at me. I had absolutely nothing to do with this.”

Despite the fact that the Los Angeles police investigated and cleared him of any involvement, Robert Blake’s legal team attempted to shift blame toward him in a desperate move to protect their client.

Brando was subpoenaed in Blake’s civil trial. With his lawyer, Bruce M. Margolin, by his side, he invoked his Fifth Amendment right. Margolin said his client did not answer most of the attorneys’ questions because he did not want to open a “Pandora’s box” that would make his personal life the focus of the trial.

Brando also did not want to make statements in court that could be taken “out of context,” Margolin added.

“Blake’s defence apparently is trying to imply that [Brando] is involved in Blake’s domestic dispute with his wife,” Margolin said outside court.

“This was an attempt to implicate Christian in something he had no part in,” Margolin stated. “He does not in any way want to be implicated in this attempt.”

Outside the courthouse, reporters asked Brando whether he had any idea who may have killed Bonny Lee Bakley. He shrugged, smiled, and replied:

“Probably sitting up in the room there.”

— referring to Robert Blake, who was present in the courtroom.

Christian Brando was also asked how he felt about Blake being acquitted in the criminal trial.

“He’s going to be judged someplace else,” he said.

(Associated Press, 2005)

u/Useful_Culture_3082 — 3 days ago
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Thai police probe links between teen’s killing and past murders

“I’m already in his room, his room is very messy.”

The message from Thai teenager Tunchanok Donhomla to her friends over the Line app in the early hours of Thursday was the last they heard from her.
Less than two days later, the naked body of the 17-year-old, who had travelled from her home in northeast Thailand for a holiday with friends in the seedy coastal town of Pattaya, was found folded into a large black suitcase at the side of railway tracks.

Thai police are now investigating whether there are links between Ms Tunchanok’s murder and two unsolved murders from 2025 in which a woman believed to be in her 30s was discovered floating in a Pattaya reservoir and another woman was found dead inside a suitcase near a golf course in Ban Lamung.

“To what extent it connects is something we have to work on,” Pattaya City police chief Anek Srathongyoo told The Australian on Tuesday. “We will try to see if there are links but I haven’t assumed the person who did this case must have done the previous ones; that’s not necessarily true.”

Video taken by friends of Ms Tunchanok early on Thursday as well as CCTV footage shows the petite 17-year-old, known as “Cake” to her friends, walking hand in hand with a man Thai police have identified as 45-year-old Ballarat-born Simon Peter Carman just after 3.30am. The two head into the Jomtien Condominium apartment building, where Carman rented a flat for $100 a week.

It is just 10 minutes from where police found her body.
Authorities say a violent argument broke out between the pair inside the apartment – some reports suggest over payment for sexual services – and this escalated into a fatal struggle.

Colonel Anek said Carman alleges the young woman “used a knife to threaten him” and “he confessed he killed her after they had an argument”.

“He didn’t know what to do so he put the victim in a suitcase and kept it in the bathroom for about a day. After that, in the evening, he took the bag … loaded it on to the back of a motorcycle, and went to dump it,” Colonel Anek said.

In the hours between her death and when Carman is alleged to have dumped her body, he appeared to be “living life normally … walking to buy things, carrying a basket … until about 9pm when we saw a large bag brought down and loaded on to a motorcycle”, the police chief added.

CCTV footage shows Carman dragging a large suitcase out of his room and leaving the apartment on a motorcycle around 9.25pm on Thursday with the suitcase strapped to the back. He speeds alongside the railway tracks until he disappears from view for nine minutes and returns to the apartment building around 10pm.

He was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok on Friday evening moments before boarding a Jetstar flight to Perth – bearing scratch marks to his face, arms and hands – after friends reported Ms Tunchanok missing.

Colonel Anek said he was aware of a prior firearms case against Carman in Perth, but no guns were found in his apartment, nor had there been any official complaints about his behaviour from neighbours.

Police are awaiting the results of an autopsy but Ms Tunchanok’s father and stepmother have since taken her remains back to her home province for burial. Both parents described her as helpful and self-sufficient, and have demanded Carman face the death penalty for her death.

Colonel Anek said Carman had not yet received visitors at the Special Pattaya prison in Bang Lamung district where he is being held, but police had arranged for a lawyer to be present during interrogations. Carman has been charged with murder, moving and concealing a corpse and abducting a minor for indecent purposes.
The charges may carry penalties of anything from 15 years’ jail to the death penalty, depending on his level of co-operation.

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u/The_Dingo_Donger — 5 days ago

37 Women Murdered or Missing 2003 to 2020 in Springfield Ohio (City of 60K)

There are more stories; some women ruled OD or Undetermined. Total exceeds 50+. Are some of the women connected? Serial Killer? or just wrong place, wrong time. Who's ready to talk?

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u/Outside-Lychee-9184 — 4 days ago
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⚖️ BREAKING: VERDICT REACHED IN TN v. Blaise Taylor

⚖️ BREAKING: VERDICT REACHED IN TN v. Blaise Taylor

The jury has returned its verdict in TN v. Blaise Taylor.

Blaise Taylor has been found GUILTY on all counts.

After hearing testimony from witnesses, experts, investigators, and reviewing all evidence presented during trial, the jury has now reached its decision.

This marks the conclusion of the trial phase and the beginning of the next chapter in the case.

We will continue to monitor court proceedings and future developments.

Thank you to everyone who followed this case with us throughout the trial.

Infographic will be uploaded for our wrap up on this case, keep an look out!

Side Bah – Stay Sharp
Reporter – MoonTygr713 🌙🐅

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u/sidebahinvestigates — 4 days ago

Why did Solomon Henderson attack failed ?

Solomon Henderson Aka the Antioch Highschool Shooter on 2025 January 22 did a school shooting in Nashville in Antioch Highschool. He's attack lasted 17 seconds and he managed to kill 2 people including himself and injured 1,he used a 9mm Taurus 62C semi-

automatic pistol with 15+ bullets. So he had every right condition but he only managed to kill 2 it's just realy weird to me. I would like if somebody explained why did he got just 1 girls death and himself , Rip to the victims

u/Crepperfan_1012 — 4 days ago
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Long unsolved murders in Philadelphia

First time poster here. I graduated from George Washington High School in 1975. In March of my senior year, a young girl I only peripherally knew from one of my classes was murdered and her body discovered at a farm in Wrightstown, Bucks County. Her name was Valerie Seibert (or Siebert - uncertain of correct spelling) and she was a year behind me.

She and I had the same typing class and we both used to ride the 84 bus to and from Washington. I knew her well enough to only say “Hi”, partially because she was gorgeous and I definitely wasn’t. She was a tall, auburn-haired, better-looking version of a teenage Barbara Streisand who always seemed to me to be either preoccupied or aloof.

Upon learning of her family life following her death, I had a much clearer understanding of my perception of her. Her mother was arrested shortly after her killing for receiving stolen property and drug charges (if memory serves) and suspicion arose that she may have either had a hand in or inadvertently caused her daughter’s death. She may have had some affiliation with the Pagans or Warlocks motorcycle gangs.

As far as I know, no one has ever been charged with her murder. She was found at that farm in Bucks County with gunshots in her arm and her side. It’s been 51 years since her killing and I’d like to know if anyone has any info or updates about the inquiry into her death.

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u/GottaBunique2 — 5 days ago
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The Scrubbed 1991 Court Video from the Jeffrey Dahmer Case: Why did the defense agree to destroy biological evidence 15 days after his arrest?

When police entered apartment 213 in July 1991, the media painted an open-and-shut case. But the deeper you dig into the actual legal transcripts, the more the official story crumbles into a sensationalized media show designed to cover up uncomfortable truths.

Far from the airtight case we were fed, my extensive investigation into the official narrative of WI v. Jeffrey Dahmer (1992) uncovers a trail of severe constitutional violations, vanishing forensic material, and a shocking failure of due process. This series aims to completely unravel the trial as a manufactured piece of legal theater.

The Scrubbed Evidence They Didn't Want You to See

A central pillar of this investigation hinges on this televised broadcast of Dahmer’s second court appearance on August 6, 1991. In a bizarre and legally baffling move, just 15 days after his arrest, the defense actively recommended returning and disposing of key biological evidence before guilt was ever established or a proper chain of custody was secured.

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Inside the Full Investigation:

  • The Fourth Amendment Violation: Why the initial police entry into apartment 213 was completely illegal, legally rendering all subsequent discoveries "fruit of the poisonous tree."
  • The Vanishing Evidence: How the defense and prosecution weaponized a flawed, unrecorded confession while completely bypassing physical, forensic proof.
  • The Illusion of Justice: How the court rushed through procedural requirements to put on a spectacular media performance while burying the truth.

Decide For Yourself

You can choose to stick with the standard mainstream media narrative, or you can look at the unredacted legal reality of the Jeffrey Dahmer case and draw your own conclusions.

This is the foundational piece of a larger project I've been building on my Substack since April 2025. If you want to dive into the trial anomalies, the constitutional violations, and the evidence that vanished, the link to the full breakdown is in the comments below.

u/Emotional-Brief-1775 — 7 days ago