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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sheila Flynn

America Unsolved: The New Bedford murderer killed nine women in 1988 and was never caught

Brandeis University Press

No one connected the dots when the women first started disappearing.

It was 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a busy seaport full of working-class families who tended to grow up, buy homes and stay in the area. Not unusually for a port, particularly in the ’80s, the small New England city was grappling with drugs.

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