NH NH - Connecticut River Valley Killer (1980s)

[jaejae]

I would like to give some publicity to this case that of Theresa Allore. It is a Canadian case but the Connecticut River Valley Killer has been mentioned in connection with it. Of course I do not know whether the Connecticut River Valley Killer was responsible or not but the possibility he struck in Canada is worth looking at. Here is a recent video about the case:

Here is a link to the Wikipedia page about the case:

Death of Theresa Allore - Wikipedia

 

[jaejae]

I will give this case another bump. As I say the sister of one of the victim's described her sisters case as like a paper bag blowing in the wind. With a bit of luck it might be possible to get the cases moving although there might be a problem with DNA in these cases I am not sure:

Episode 31: The Connecticut Valley Serial Killer Crime&Stuff podcast

 

[jaejae]

Here is an interesting report about the cases based on the Unsolved Mysteries segment which was titled something along the lines of New Hampshire Killer. There is a good description of the attacker provided by the victim that survived his attack:

Serial Killer...where could he be now?

Serial Killer...where could he be now?
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From the late 170s and in through the 1980s, there were many unsolved abductions and murders, in the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire. Most of the victims were women, of all ages and backgrounds, with one common trait...they were in the wrong plcae at the wrong time.

The first case, likely connected to the others, happened in 1978, in New London, NH....a woman who worked for a publising company in Wilmot NH was found stabbed to death in a small wetland preserve off of a state highway. She was a photographer. Theft was not the motive, all er belongs, as well as money were not taken. She had been stabbed 20 something times, to the upper chest and neck area....many more times than necessary to kill.....a rage-related crime.

The second case that can be closely connected, but no definate cause of death was ever determined,because the remains were so badly weathered.....in Spring of 1981.....her body was found in the woods near a stream, just outside of Claremon NH....about ten minues away from New London NH.

The third occurred, just ten miutes north of Claremont NH, in a town called Plainfield NH.....this was in 1982...an elderly woman, named Sylvia Gray was found bludgeoned and stabbed, a few hundre yards behind her home in the woods, a few days after she had been reported missing.

Then, between 1984 and 1986, three women turned up missing, from the local claremont area...Bernice Courtemanche..the first was a 17 year old hitchhiker, high school student and aide at a local rest home....two months later, a 30 something year old nurse, Ellen Fried, was talking on a pay telephone with her sster, commenting that a car kept drving by that made her nervous.....she was talking on a pay telephone, not far from where Bernice, just earlier that spring had been last seen.....

About a year later, Ellen Fried was found in the woods in Kelleyville NH five miles East in the direction of New London NH......and a few months later...a mile from where Ellen was found. the remains of Bernice were found....both women, of different ages andbackground had alot in common, both had been stabbed to death, taken from the same area of town to a same section of woods in Kelleyvlle NH.

While these two were still labelled "missing" and had not been recovered, a factory worker in her 20s,Eva Morse, was hitchhiking just south of town, and disappeared.....her remains were found in 1986, just a few hudred feet from where the unknown woman was found in 1981.....just west of town...in the woods, she had been stabbed to death...the neck injuries were so severe, it appeared that the killer had attempted to decapitate her.

The three victims, from above, Morse, Courtemanche, and Fried were found as mostly skelatal remains, but there was enough evidence to indicate their injuries...and that they had been brought to the remote woods to be killed where they were found.

Later, in the year of 1986, a 17 year old was jogging along a rural route, just ten miles north of Claremont NH, in a town called Hartland...just across state line into VT....she was found the following day, deep in the woods, stabbed to death......Hartland VT, is just across the river from Plainfeild NH...where Sylvia gray was killed back in 1982.

Durring aheavy snow storm, in january of 1987, about six months after ......A 38 year old nurse was traveling north on I-91, between VT and NH, within the town of hartland....Her abandoned car was found, speckled with blood stains and rammed backwards into a snow bank in the parkinglot of the hartland rest area.....three months later, her body was found, deep in the hartland woods, off of Advent Hill Road.....in the Spring thaw....she had been stabbed to death under an apple tree.

All of the victims were different ages, all were of different backgrounds and physical appearance, but they had one thing in common.....they were all killed within 20 miles of claremont NH area. It has been estimated that the killer was about 20 years old (assuming these killings are connected) when he killed the woman back in 1978.....so t is possible that he is in his 40s today, and possibly harming other people in other states.....

In the late summer of 1988...a woman was stopped at a closed convenience store, 30 miles south of Claremont...she was in her 20s, and 7 months pregnant....a man in an older Jeep Wagoneer pulled into the parking space beside her, and approached her opened drivers side window.....asking "is that phone working?" before the woancould answer, he pulled the door ope and pulled her from her car, waving a knife in her face.....when she resisted and ran from him, he chased her down and stabbed her 20 or so times.....amazingly, she was still living, laying still, until he got back to his vehicle and drove away.....she managed to get back to her car anddrive to a friends hose nearby for help.....she and her baby lived.....but her attackerwas never found.

Its basic speculation...that he was also responsible for the earlier abductions and killings...that he left the area...to escape detection. She discribed this attacker as a man 30 to 35 years of age (in 1988) with a slim build, dirty blond hair, driving a older Jeep Wagoneer, light colored with wood grained trim.....She discribed his demeanor as very calm, not nervous, in a very odd way...as he was attempting to get her to go to his vehicle....one of the tell tale signs that he "knew what he was doing" and he may have done it before.

Where could this guy be, now? in his 40s? Attacking elsewhere? Does this sound like any unsolved or solved cases in your area?...if so contact the New Hampshire State police,or your local law enforcement official, about these unsolved cases in NH and VT....



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Halloween is Right around the corner.. .

 

[Investigative Vermont]

Looking for specific information about The Connecticut River Valley Killer's Victims. Addresses, Surviving Family Members, Education Records, and any other relevant material. If anyone knows of any unsolved missing persons cases from the 70's 80's 90's and 2000's for VT and NH those too might be helpful.

 

[Investigative Vermont]

Vermont and New Hampshire;
Stabbing victim IDs attacker years later: Was he a serial killer?..Michael Nicholaou


Could this man be the Blue Ridge parkway rapist?

Michael Andrew Nicholaou


Third victim dies in murder-suicide

Florida slayings reopen cold case

Authorities investigate whether man was involved in more deaths.

ST. PETERSBURG - A murder-suicide in Florida has rekindled interest in a series of unsolved murders along the Connecticut River Valley that separates New Hampshire and Vermont.

Michael Nicholaou shot his estranged wife and stepdaughter before killing himself New Year's Eve 2005, authorities said. Lynn-Marie Carty, a retired Vermont criminal profiler and a New Hampshire cold case detective recognized Nicholaou's name and started investigating, the St. Petersburg Times reported Sunday.

Respectfully,
dark_shadows

Here is an interesting report about the cases based on the Unsolved Mysteries segment which was titled something along the lines of New Hampshire Killer. There is a good description of the attacker provided by the victim that survived his attack:

Serial Killer...where could he be now?

Serial Killer...where could he be now?
Author: 29831 CategoryCrimes) Created3/10/2001 5:15:00 AM)
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From the late 170s and in through the 1980s, there were many unsolved abductions and murders, in the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire. Most of the victims were women, of all ages and backgrounds, with one common trait...they were in the wrong plcae at the wrong time.

The first case, likely connected to the others, happened in 1978, in New London, NH....a woman who worked for a publising company in Wilmot NH was found stabbed to death in a small wetland preserve off of a state highway. She was a photographer. Theft was not the motive, all er belongs, as well as money were not taken. She had been stabbed 20 something times, to the upper chest and neck area....many more times than necessary to kill.....a rage-related crime.

The second case that can be closely connected, but no definate cause of death was ever determined,because the remains were so badly weathered.....in Spring of 1981.....her body was found in the woods near a stream, just outside of Claremon NH....about ten minues away from New London NH.

The third occurred, just ten miutes north of Claremont NH, in a town called Plainfield NH.....this was in 1982...an elderly woman, named Sylvia Gray was found bludgeoned and stabbed, a few hundre yards behind her home in the woods, a few days after she had been reported missing.

Then, between 1984 and 1986, three women turned up missing, from the local claremont area...Bernice Courtemanche..the first was a 17 year old hitchhiker, high school student and aide at a local rest home....two months later, a 30 something year old nurse, Ellen Fried, was talking on a pay telephone with her sster, commenting that a car kept drving by that made her nervous.....she was talking on a pay telephone, not far from where Bernice, just earlier that spring had been last seen.....

About a year later, Ellen Fried was found in the woods in Kelleyville NH five miles East in the direction of New London NH......and a few months later...a mile from where Ellen was found. the remains of Bernice were found....both women, of different ages andbackground had alot in common, both had been stabbed to death, taken from the same area of town to a same section of woods in Kelleyvlle NH.

While these two were still labelled "missing" and had not been recovered, a factory worker in her 20s,Eva Morse, was hitchhiking just south of town, and disappeared.....her remains were found in 1986, just a few hudred feet from where the unknown woman was found in 1981.....just west of town...in the woods, she had been stabbed to death...the neck injuries were so severe, it appeared that the killer had attempted to decapitate her.

The three victims, from above, Morse, Courtemanche, and Fried were found as mostly skelatal remains, but there was enough evidence to indicate their injuries...and that they had been brought to the remote woods to be killed where they were found.

Later, in the year of 1986, a 17 year old was jogging along a rural route, just ten miles north of Claremont NH, in a town called Hartland...just across state line into VT....she was found the following day, deep in the woods, stabbed to death......Hartland VT, is just across the river from Plainfeild NH...where Sylvia gray was killed back in 1982.

Durring aheavy snow storm, in january of 1987, about six months after ......A 38 year old nurse was traveling north on I-91, between VT and NH, within the town of hartland....Her abandoned car was found, speckled with blood stains and rammed backwards into a snow bank in the parkinglot of the hartland rest area.....three months later, her body was found, deep in the hartland woods, off of Advent Hill Road.....in the Spring thaw....she had been stabbed to death under an apple tree.

All of the victims were different ages, all were of different backgrounds and physical appearance, but they had one thing in common.....they were all killed within 20 miles of claremont NH area. It has been estimated that the killer was about 20 years old (assuming these killings are connected) when he killed the woman back in 1978.....so t is possible that he is in his 40s today, and possibly harming other people in other states.....

In the late summer of 1988...a woman was stopped at a closed convenience store, 30 miles south of Claremont...she was in her 20s, and 7 months pregnant....a man in an older Jeep Wagoneer pulled into the parking space beside her, and approached her opened drivers side window.....asking "is that phone working?" before the woancould answer, he pulled the door ope and pulled her from her car, waving a knife in her face.....when she resisted and ran from him, he chased her down and stabbed her 20 or so times.....amazingly, she was still living, laying still, until he got back to his vehicle and drove away.....she managed to get back to her car anddrive to a friends hose nearby for help.....she and her baby lived.....but her attackerwas never found.

Its basic speculation...that he was also responsible for the earlier abductions and killings...that he left the area...to escape detection. She discribed this attacker as a man 30 to 35 years of age (in 1988) with a slim build, dirty blond hair, driving a older Jeep Wagoneer, light colored with wood grained trim.....She discribed his demeanor as very calm, not nervous, in a very odd way...as he was attempting to get her to go to his vehicle....one of the tell tale signs that he "knew what he was doing" and he may have done it before.

Where could this guy be, now? in his 40s? Attacking elsewhere? Does this sound like any unsolved or solved cases in your area?...if so contact the New Hampshire State police,or your local law enforcement official, about these unsolved cases in NH and VT....



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Here is an interesting report about the cases based on the Unsolved Mysteries segment which was titled something along the lines of New Hampshire Killer. There is a good description of the attacker provided by the victim that survived his attack:

Serial Killer...where could he be now?

Serial Killer...where could he be now?
Author: 29831 CategoryCrimes) Created3/10/2001 5:15:00 AM)
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From the late 170s and in through the 1980s, there were many unsolved abductions and murders, in the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire. Most of the victims were women, of all ages and backgrounds, with one common trait...they were in the wrong plcae at the wrong time.

The first case, likely connected to the others, happened in 1978, in New London, NH....a woman who worked for a publising company in Wilmot NH was found stabbed to death in a small wetland preserve off of a state highway. She was a photographer. Theft was not the motive, all er belongs, as well as money were not taken. She had been stabbed 20 something times, to the upper chest and neck area....many more times than necessary to kill.....a rage-related crime.

The second case that can be closely connected, but no definate cause of death was ever determined,because the remains were so badly weathered.....in Spring of 1981.....her body was found in the woods near a stream, just outside of Claremon NH....about ten minues away from New London NH.

The third occurred, just ten miutes north of Claremont NH, in a town called Plainfield NH.....this was in 1982...an elderly woman, named Sylvia Gray was found bludgeoned and stabbed, a few hundre yards behind her home in the woods, a few days after she had been reported missing.

Then, between 1984 and 1986, three women turned up missing, from the local claremont area...Bernice Courtemanche..the first was a 17 year old hitchhiker, high school student and aide at a local rest home....two months later, a 30 something year old nurse, Ellen Fried, was talking on a pay telephone with her sster, commenting that a car kept drving by that made her nervous.....she was talking on a pay telephone, not far from where Bernice, just earlier that spring had been last seen.....

About a year later, Ellen Fried was found in the woods in Kelleyville NH five miles East in the direction of New London NH......and a few months later...a mile from where Ellen was found. the remains of Bernice were found....both women, of different ages andbackground had alot in common, both had been stabbed to death, taken from the same area of town to a same section of woods in Kelleyvlle NH.

While these two were still labelled "missing" and had not been recovered, a factory worker in her 20s,Eva Morse, was hitchhiking just south of town, and disappeared.....her remains were found in 1986, just a few hudred feet from where the unknown woman was found in 1981.....just west of town...in the woods, she had been stabbed to death...the neck injuries were so severe, it appeared that the killer had attempted to decapitate her.

The three victims, from above, Morse, Courtemanche, and Fried were found as mostly skelatal remains, but there was enough evidence to indicate their injuries...and that they had been brought to the remote woods to be killed where they were found.

Later, in the year of 1986, a 17 year old was jogging along a rural route, just ten miles north of Claremont NH, in a town called Hartland...just across state line into VT....she was found the following day, deep in the woods, stabbed to death......Hartland VT, is just across the river from Plainfeild NH...where Sylvia gray was killed back in 1982.

Durring aheavy snow storm, in january of 1987, about six months after ......A 38 year old nurse was traveling north on I-91, between VT and NH, within the town of hartland....Her abandoned car was found, speckled with blood stains and rammed backwards into a snow bank in the parkinglot of the hartland rest area.....three months later, her body was found, deep in the hartland woods, off of Advent Hill Road.....in the Spring thaw....she had been stabbed to death under an apple tree.

All of the victims were different ages, all were of different backgrounds and physical appearance, but they had one thing in common.....they were all killed within 20 miles of claremont NH area. It has been estimated that the killer was about 20 years old (assuming these killings are connected) when he killed the woman back in 1978.....so t is possible that he is in his 40s today, and possibly harming other people in other states.....

In the late summer of 1988...a woman was stopped at a closed convenience store, 30 miles south of Claremont...she was in her 20s, and 7 months pregnant....a man in an older Jeep Wagoneer pulled into the parking space beside her, and approached her opened drivers side window.....asking "is that phone working?" before the woancould answer, he pulled the door ope and pulled her from her car, waving a knife in her face.....when she resisted and ran from him, he chased her down and stabbed her 20 or so times.....amazingly, she was still living, laying still, until he got back to his vehicle and drove away.....she managed to get back to her car anddrive to a friends hose nearby for help.....she and her baby lived.....but her attackerwas never found.

Its basic speculation...that he was also responsible for the earlier abductions and killings...that he left the area...to escape detection. She discribed this attacker as a man 30 to 35 years of age (in 1988) with a slim build, dirty blond hair, driving a older Jeep Wagoneer, light colored with wood grained trim.....She discribed his demeanor as very calm, not nervous, in a very odd way...as he was attempting to get her to go to his vehicle....one of the tell tale signs that he "knew what he was doing" and he may have done it before.

Where could this guy be, now? in his 40s? Attacking elsewhere? Does this sound like any unsolved or solved cases in your area?...if so contact the New Hampshire State police,or your local law enforcement official, about these unsolved cases in NH and VT....



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The case of Jane Boroski. What evidence is there that the man who attacked her was CRVK?

"30 miles south of Claremont," West Swanzey, NH the location of the attack is nowhere near Claremont, about 45 miles away, it is few miles from Keene NH. This attack differs in one key aspect CRVK never left his victims at the place of their attack, the hallmark of this case is the fact that CRVK dumped the bodies in the secluded woodlands of VT and NH.

Boroski described this attack as following: the man approached here in the car asked her a question the tried rip her out of the car when she struggled he stopped turned and away. Boroski left the vehicle and yelled "Hey ." At this point the man turned back around and proceeded to stab her repeatedly eventually leaving her returning to his car and driving away.

If it was CRVK why didn't he take the body?

Most importantly is the location which is the farthest of all the victims from CRVK's hunting grounds. Is it possible that this was some sort of copy cat? This was after all at the height of hysteria surrounding this case in 88.

 

[Investigative Vermont]

Vermont and New Hampshire;
Stabbing victim IDs attacker years later: Was he a serial killer?..Michael Nicholaou


Could this man be the Blue Ridge parkway rapist?

Michael Andrew Nicholaou


Third victim dies in murder-suicide

Florida slayings reopen cold case

Authorities investigate whether man was involved in more deaths.

ST. PETERSBURG - A murder-suicide in Florida has rekindled interest in a series of unsolved murders along the Connecticut River Valley that separates New Hampshire and Vermont.

Michael Nicholaou shot his estranged wife and stepdaughter before killing himself New Year's Eve 2005, authorities said. Lynn-Marie Carty, a retired Vermont criminal profiler and a New Hampshire cold case detective recognized Nicholaou's name and started investigating, the St. Petersburg Times reported Sunday.

Respectfully,
dark_shadows

If was Michael Andrew Nicholaou (M.A.N.) was CRVK Why have the police not reached that conclusion some 10 years after these facts came to light?

The simple answer is that he was not. The only evidence linking M.A.N. to CRVK is that the man who attacked Jane Boroski drove an older Jeep Wagoner a model car that M.A.N. also happened to own. Jane Boroski's attack is probably not the work of CRVK for a number of reasons.

M.A.N. lived in Holyoke Mass for the majority of the time that CRVK was active Holyoke is about a 2 hour drive from the majority of dump sites. This fact alone pretty much excludes him from the list of suspects because the dump sites CRVK used in areas that you would have to have familiarity with in order to feel comfortable using. It also seems likely that CRVK was revisiting these sites, which, would have been incredibly impractical for someone living two hours away.

 

[Investigative Vermont]

Hi Lynn-Marie,

I've been one of your chief critics for a long, long time now and feel like you have hopelessly compromised this case with your Michael Nicholau obsession, to the point where you've led witnesses as well as survivors (Jane Boroski, who's since ID'ed someone else as her attacker and Nicholau's surviving family members) and the general public to the foregone conclusion that Michael Nicholau and the CT River Valley Killer are one in the same. Even a cursory look at the evidence compared to the behavior patterns of Nicholau would lead in precisely the opposite direction.

Nicholau (Who I will hereby refer to as MN) has all the profile traits of a domestic abuser/mass killer than that of a serial murderer. It's important to note that he committed suicide after killing his wife, a common hallmark of the domestic murderer. It's very much a cut-and-dried case.

You also go out of your way to link MN to Gary Westover and have pressured his family into conceding that it's a possibility. His name isn't on the list of people Westover gave, though, and you well know this. Why you continue to push this assertion is beyond me.

MN was a transplant to New Hampshire, especially the area where the crimes took place. He is not known to have lived in or even visited Claremont and the places where the bodies of Courtemanche, Fried, and Morse were found were remote and not well-known even to many locals. This points directly toward someone with deep, longstanding ties to the area, which MN simply did not possess.

I already discussed the Agnew murder above, and there's no evidence to link MN to that one especially and I'm not even convinced it's a part of the original series of crimes in and around Claremont. If the Westover confession is true (and to me, that seems to be the case), when taken with the physical evidence, we have a highly disorganized offender or group, which is a stark contrast from the Claremont/Kellyville crimes, which were the work of a highly organized offender determined to leave no trace of his activities. (All three bodies were mere bones when discovered.)

I'm leaving Lynda Moore out completely because I'm 100% that one was an isolated incident and the young man that police zeroed in on in that case was most certainly the killer or, if he wasn't, someone very much like him was.

Lastly, Jane Boroski. Yet another disorganized crime that left a survivor, and the strongest feather in your case against MS due to the Jeep Wagoneer. Yes, Jane ID'ed MN, but only many years later and after much prodding by you. And let's not forget that she later fingered someone else, so one can only conclude that her recall of the attack is clouded by time and the fog of trauma. It's unfortunate, but not a unique situation.

Oh, and let's not forget your attempt to link MN to the Colonial Parkway Murders in Virginia, crimes in which the killer's motive, victimology, and signature could not be more different from the CT River Valley Killings. Never mind the fact that MN's move to VA predates the first crime in that series by less than a year. He was surely no more familiar with the backroads and waterways of the Parkway area than he was with Claremont and Kellyville in the CT River Valley region of NH, and though the Parkway crimes were investigated by a ton of different agencies and private investigators who came to conflicting conclusions at times, one thing they all agreed on was that whoever was responsible had a high level of comfort and confidence in his knowledge of local geography - something MN could not have had.

I commend your efforts, as a new set of eyes is always welcome, but respectfully, you've gotten way too close to your theory and it seems, at this point, to be driven more by ego than evidence. Michael Nicholau was not one of the CT River Valley Killers, nor was he the Colonial Parkway Killer. Instead, he was a domestic abuser, a wife-killing creep of the sort that are way too common in this world.

EDIT:
The most important thing against Nicholau is the part I left out - he lived in Massachusetts during the CT River Valley murders!

Good to see someone with a an unbiased feel for this case on here props! Pettibon Junction.

On Gary Westover's Deathbed Confession:

Has anyone considered the possibility that this confession might be fake!
"Uncle Howard was Howard Minnon, a retired sheriff's deputy in Grafton County, NH. Before Westover could continue, Uncle Howard told Cindy to leave the room."-Tampa Bay Times Ben Montgomery

We are talking about a confession that was given to one man with no witnesses. Not mention Westover's own shaded history.
Does any one have any information about Howard F. Minnon? Like what his possible motivations could have been for creating a false confession? Could he have been CRVK? Could he be protecting CRVK?

One of the questions surrounding this case has always been how CRVK was able to get the victims to let their guard down. What if CRVK was Police? or some sort of police impersonator?

 

[Investigative Vermont]

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Gary Westover's Aunt. Here are just a few minutes from her taped interview where she talks about the death bed confession of her nephew Gary, regarding the fact that he thought he was going to hell for what he had done with the gang who killed Barbara Agnew. The priest had been called to Gary's bedside, along with Gary's uncle the sheriff and his aunt and others whose names I will keep private but are all on the taped interview. Gary wanted the killers in the gang caught. Gary wanted to confess so he would not, " go to hell." It is also a written documented fact that Michael Nicholaou and his wife Michelle were inside the same hospital where Barbara Agnew worked just weeks before her murder even though they were living in Virginia at the time. They were visiting MY father's neighbor who was Michelle Nicholaou's grandmother. She was on the same floor as Barbara Agnew worked because she had a flair up of her lupus. It is also a fact that on the week that Barbara Agnew was murdered Michael Nicholaou and Michelle Nicholaou were visiting Michelle's aunt and uncle in Plymouth/Grafton New Hampshire. This same aunt and uncle lived on the opposite end of the street as the family of Gary Westover. Gary was living in a home for the disabled in Manchester N.H. at the time. Gary, who was in a wheelchair, used to visit his family by traveling in the handicapped van. Before his death and on his deathbed, Gary Westover told his uncle the sheriff that when the gang brought him along for the ride and killed Barbara Agnew, they had picked him up in the handicapped van. He also said one of the men carried him over to the body of Barbara Agnew, helped him put his one working hand on the knife and made Gary stab Barbara Agnew. This information is consistent with the fact that her autopsy shows she received one stab wound after her death. He said the men did this to insure that Gary would never tell on them. Gary told his uncle the sheriff that the men knew she was a nurse. Gary's aunt assumed that might be because she had on her uniform. That was incorrect. One of Barbara's best friend's went with one of Barbara's sisters to view her BMW after her murder. That person told me that on Barbara's BMW there was a hospital parking sticker. So it was not difficult for all the world to see what hospital Barbara Agnew worked at.

WHICH HOSPITAL?

 

[Investigative Vermont]

I took a break from looking at this during the holidays and amidst a job search, but I'm back!

Are there any other girls/women who went missing during the murders from the radius of where the other connected victims were kidnapped (and their bodies dumped)--but none of whom have still been located?

That is the question isn't

 

[Investigative Vermont]

Rachel Garden and Laureen Rahn went missing from Manchester, but that's a bit outside the range. Carrie Moss went missing from New Boston in 1989 and was found in Goffstown, which was within the range.

Oh, and Louise Chaput's murder in 2001 was VERY similar to that of Cathy Millican in 1978.

What about Maura Murray 2004 body never found?

 

[Vern]

Hi Lynn-Marie,

EDIT:
The most important thing against Nicholau is the part I left out - he lived in Massachusetts during the CT River Valley murders!

I just want to put my opinion out there on this bit. I am a soldier; my husband is a soldier with PTSD.

When he senses he is becoming triggered (many reasons for this - feeling "enclosed", must have his back to any wall and doors directly visible, desperately avoids having to deal with crowded spaces such as malls and usually finds himself triggered if he has to be in a place with many people [for whatever reason he needs to be there - hospital, grocery store etc] etc), you know what we do? We load our little dog into the car. Little dog sits in my lap as a front seat passenger and hubby drives.

We drive, sometimes for many hours, all over. Parts unknown - all on back roads. If it's not winter, the windows are open. We talk about the scenery, try to figure out where the heck we are based upon any landmarks we can see, or town names. It helps to restore his sense of openness - that he's no longer feeling "enclosed". When his anxiety lifts, we usually have to tell the GPS to "Go Home" as we haven't a clue where we are on the secondary roads through the woods.

I wouldn't rule out anyone, especially a former soldier who has spent some time on any two-way firing range as MN did based on a mere couple hour drive. In my experience we find long, no set destination drives to be quite common occurrences. Especially so if that individual also happened to be self-employed as MN was and capable of setting his own hours of work, places of work, and days of work. Such a person can makes themselves available or not available regardless of what day of the week it happened to be.

IMO.

 

[jaejae]

I just want to put my opinion out there on this bit. I am a soldier; my husband is a soldier with PTSD.

When he senses he is becoming triggered (many reasons for this - feeling "enclosed", must have his back to any wall and doors directly visible, desperately avoids having to deal with crowded spaces such as malls and usually finds himself triggered if he has to be in a place with many people [for whatever reason he needs to be there - hospital, grocery store etc] etc), you know what we do? We load our little dog into the car. Little dog sits in my lap as a front seat passenger and hubby drives.

We drive, sometimes for many hours, all over. Parts unknown - all on back roads. If it's not winter, the windows are open. We talk about the scenery, try to figure out where the heck we are based upon any landmarks we can see, or town names. It helps to restore his sense of openness - that he's no longer feeling "enclosed". When his anxiety lifts, we usually have to tell the GPS to "Go Home" as we haven't a clue where we are on the secondary roads through the woods.

I wouldn't rule out anyone, especially a former soldier who has spent some time on any two-way firing range as MN did based on a mere couple hour drive. In my experience we find long, no set destination drives to be quite common occurrences. Especially so if that individual also happened to be self-employed as MN was and capable of setting his own hours of work, places of work, and days of work. Such a person can makes themselves available or not available regardless of what day of the week it happened to be.

IMO.

Interesting posts with many good points about the military. My particular take has been Lynn Marie Carty had many of the right crimes but wrong suspect. I think the Connecticut River Killer was very likely a military man and this is evidenced in the way the victims were stabbed. I think however he enjoyed his military experience and being exposed to violence and his crimes were a way of reliving these experiences.

 

[Vern]

Interesting posts with many good points about the military. My particular take has been Lynn Marie Carty had many of the right crimes but wrong suspect. I think the Connecticut River Killer was very likely a military man and this is evidenced in the way the victims were stabbed. I think however he enjoyed his military experience and being exposed to violence and his crimes were a way of reliving these experiences.

Oh I agree - this case seems to be someone who certainly enjoyed their 'work'.

And, I'm not saying MN had and OSI or PTSD, just pointing out that ruling out a former soldier based on geographics of mere hours doesn't make any sense in my experience. Some deal with their issues in violent ways and some withdraw and want to be with only their trusted peeps, some deal with issues fine. Those I know who suffer all enjoy the freedom of being out in the car away from "life"; it is their happy place in common between all three of the groups.

 

[evillano]

Doubling back on one of the victims...what were the exact/rough circumstances of Bernice's disappearance and how she died?

I've read that she was taken by a white vehicle and was found nearly totally decomposed with stab marks and head damage? But wanted to see if anyone had more specific or elaborate details.

I'm trying to confirm/reject a theory I have on another case.

 

[Pettibon Junction]

Doubling back on one of the victims...what were the exact/rough circumstances of Bernice's disappearance and how she died?

I've read that she was taken by a white vehicle and was found nearly totally decomposed with stab marks and head damage? But wanted to see if anyone had more specific or elaborate details.

I'm trying to confirm/reject a theory I have on another case.

I believe the extent of what they could determine was death by stabbing due to nick marks on the rib bones. I'm not sure if they could figure much more than that due to the advanced state of decomposition.

 

[evillano]

I believe the extent of what they could determine was death by stabbing due to nick marks on the rib bones. I'm not sure if they could figure much more than that due to the advanced state of decomposition.

Thank you--am I remembering correctly that she was thought to have last been seen hitchhiking and getting into a white vehicle?

 

[Pettibon Junction]

Thank you--am I remembering correctly that she was thought to have last been seen hitchhiking and getting into a white vehicle?

Yes. A business owner in Claremont saw her get into a white sedan with two men in it. There was also a disputed sighting of multiple men forcing a woman into a van at a rest stop where Barbara Agnew's car was later found abandoned. (This sighting was disputed due to timeline issues; Paul Oakes was eventually ruled out as a suspect in this case based on the same criteria.)

 

[evillano]

Crap, there goes my theory--given, it was a long shot, but thought I might have something.

Kathleen Randall was hitchhiking from her school in Boston in 1972 and was thought to have been picked up by a white station wagon possibly with NH plates--later to be found in the remote woods of Yudicky Farm in NH. She was pretty thoroughly decomposed, so it was hard to tell exactly what was done to her up to her death and the full details were never disclosed to the public. What was released was that she had her jaw broken and looked to have been beaten then strangled.

I figured, two young women a decade apart both picked up by white vehicles while hitchhiking and dumped in woody areas in NH...little odd. If you're good at something like this and you haven't been caught, why stop? But alas, not the same car. Still, was worth pursuing. I'll keep note of it just in case; you never know.

 

[jaejae]

I will share this blog entry as it looks pretty interesting and mentions the Connecticut River Valley Killer as possibly connected to another crimes and also has some good composite sketches comparison:

Mystery in Allenstown, NH: Carol Ann Fitzmaurice

My feeling is 1970 is a bit early for the Connecticut River Valley Killer but interesting.

 

[jaejae]

I will give these cases a bump again as there appear very cold. There is some interest in them and here is a recent Podcast from You Tube. As I have mentioned before the sister of one of the victims described her loved ones case as like a paper bag blowing in the wind: