

Evidence indicated that she had engaged in a violent struggle with her assailant. About an hour later, her husband found her dead in their living room. At around 2pm, she was seen in the yard of her home on Route 121 in Saxtons River, Vermont. Moore was home alone while her husband was at work. On April 15, 1986, thirty-six-year-old Lynda M.She was found just 500 feet from where Mary Elizabeth's body was found. She had been stabbed and her throat was slit. On April 25, 1986, her remains were found in the woods in Unity, several miles from Route 12. On July 10, 1985, twenty-seven-year-old single mother Eva Marie Morse vanished while hitchhiking from work on Route 12 between Charlestown, New Hampshire and Claremont.Bernice's remains would turn up in the same woods one mile away. Damage to her remains indicated that she had been stabbed. Eighteen months later, on September 19, 1985, her skeletal remains were found on the banks of the Sugar River in an isolated area near Kellyville, eight miles outside of Claremont. She returned and said goodbye soon after.

She briefly left and checked to make sure her car would start. While on the phone, she said there was a car circling the parking lot. Two months later, at 2am on July 20, 1984, twenty-six-year-old Ellen Ruth Fried, a registered nurse from Claremont who worked at Valley Regional Hospital, called her sister from a payphone at Leo's Market.She had been stabbed to death and her throat had been slit. On April 19, 1986, her decomposed body turned up near the Sugar River in Newport, New Hampshire. She set off for her boyfriend’s house she may have tried to hitchhike there. At around 3:30pm on May 30, 1984, seventeen-year-old nurse's aide and high school student Bernice Courtemanche left her home in West Claremont, New Hampshire.Her cause of death could not be determined. Two weeks later, on August 9, her body was discovered in a wooded area off Unity Stage Road in Unity, New Hampshire, about eighty miles from where she was last seen. She was last seen by a friend who dropped her off near exit 13 of the Massachusetts Turnpike. On July 25, 1981, thirty-seven-year-old college student Mary Elizabeth Critchley decided to hitchhike from Massachusetts to her home in Waterbury, Vermont.She had been stabbed over twenty times in the neck and abdomen. The next day, her body was found just yards from where she was last seen. On October 24, 1978, she left work and went to the Chandler Brook Wetland in New London, New Hampshire. The first victim was twenty-seven-year-old Cathy Millican.And police began to suspect that the killings were the work of the same individual. All of the victims suffered similar stab wounds. Police believe that six of the seven women were abducted and taken to remote, wooded areas, where they were murdered. Since 1978, the bodies of seven young women have been discovered within a fifty-mile radius in the Connecticut River Valley along the New Hampshire/Vermont border near Route 91. One such investigation is currently underway in New England. The overwhelming task for authorities is to determine how the serial killer thinks and hopefully learn where and when he might strike again. They are cruel and calculating, choosing victims indiscriminately, with little or no remorse for their actions. Details: Police estimate there may be as many as 100 serial killers living among us, on our streets and in our neighborhoods.
