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Connecticut 'serial killer' suspected of murdering 7 women
Pictured: Connecticut 'serial killer' suspected of murdering at least seven women found buried behind a mall identified as inmate serving time for manslaughter
- Authorities investigating a possible serial killer found the remains of at least four women behind a Connecticut strip mall
- The remains of three other women were found behind the strip mall in 2007
- The suspect, William Howell, 45, is behind bars for 2003 killing of Nilsa Arizmendi
- He is believed to have killed all seven victims
- One of the recently discovered victims has been identified as Melanie Camilini, a mother of two from Seymour
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A man suspected of murdering at least seven women and burying their bodies behind a shopping center in Connecticut has been identified as a convicted killer.
Sources named the suspected serial killer today as 45-year-old William Devin Howell, who is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence on an unrelated manslaughter charge.
Howell was believed to be responsible for the slayings of Diane Cusack, Joyvaline Martinez, Mary Jane Menard, Melanie Camilini and three additional victims whose partial skeletal remains have been unearthed behind the Hartford Road Plaza mall.
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Portrait of a killer: William Howell, 45, has been identified as a prime suspect in the murders of at least seven women. Howell is currently serving a 15-year sentence on a manslaughter charge for the 2003 killing of 33-year-old Nilsa Arizmendi
33-year-old Nilsa Arizmendi
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Howell's current sentence at the Garner Correctional Institution stems from the killing of 33-year-old Nilsa Arizmendi, reported NBC Connecticut.
The Westerflled resident vanished nearly 12 years ago and her body was never found.
Arizmendi, who was a drug addict, was last seen alive July 25, 2003, climbing into Howell's van to smoke crack cocaine, reported New Britain Herald.
Howell, a drifter who was working odd jobs mowing lawns around Connecticut, was arrested in 2004 in North Carolina and his van was seized as evidence.
Inside, police found Nilsa Arizmendi's blood on a pillow, as well as the blood of an unidentified woman. Officers also recovered a videotape showing two other women, whose fate remains unknown to this day.
In August 2007, Howell pleaded guilty to a manslaughter charge as part of a deal with the prosecution.
The 33-year-old inmate is due for release in 2019.
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Found: Authorities investigating a possible serial killer found the remains of four more victims behind a Connecticut strip mall, one of the victims has been identified as Melanie Camilini (photographed)
Victims: The partial remains of Diane Cusack (top), Joyvaline Martinez (center), and Mary Jane Menard (bottom) were discovered by a hunter in 2007
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One of the newly discovered victims of the Connecticut serial killer has been identified as Melanie Ruth Camilini, a mother of two from Seymour, who was last seen in Waterbury in 2003.
Authorities said they are still attempting to identify the others.
Camilini was last seen with two men, according to lostnmissing.org. The mother-of-two was reported missing by her mother in April 2013, several weeks after her disappearance in January.
New Britain police Chief James Wardwell said on Monday that testing on the remains found behind the shopping center on April 28 showed they belonged to four new victims.
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If the serial killing theory proves true, the case would rival that of Connecticut's most notorious serial killer, Michael Ross, who admitted slaying eight women and girls in Connecticut and New York in the 1980s and was put to death in 2005 in New England's first execution in decades.
In a strange coincidence, the body of a teenage girl, Elizabeth Honsch, was found behind the strip mall in 1995. A week later, the body of her mother, Marcia Honsch, was found near an entrance to Tolland State Forest in western Massachusetts. Each had been shot in the head.
Police have said they don't believe those two killings are related to the cases of Cusack, Martinez and Menard.
Marcia Honsch's husband and Elizabeth Honsch's father, Robert Honsch, was charged with murder. He pleaded not guilty and awaits trial. Authorities say he killed his family and then started a new life and a new family.
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Total: The wooded area where the bodies were found is about 12 miles southwest of Hartford, a total of seven victims were found
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Investigators have returned to the site annually, but a specially trained FBI dog helped locate the new victims.
The wooded area where the bodies were found is about 12 miles southwest of Hartford. The partial remains of Diane Cusack, 53, Joyvaline Martinez, 23, and Mary Jane Menard, 40, were discovered by a hunter in woods behind the strip mall around the same time William Howell pleaded guilty to Nilsa Arizmendi's killing.
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3ZxZC9kZ2
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