Online Sleuths Count the Unexplained Deaths Piling up in New England | Crime Alert 5PM 04.28.25

Eight dead. Is there a connection between these cases in the northeast? Crime Online's investigative team reports for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, tonight on Merit Street Media. Check your local listings.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime a art hourly update Breaking crime News Now eight dead.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Is there a connection between the cases in the northeast
with crime onlines Jackie Howard, Dave Mack and Holden Zeppel
I'm Drew Nelson.

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Page Fannin thirty five is reported missing March fourth, after
failing to open her West Islip, Long Island hair salon
and not returning calls from family members. The next day,
police get a tip that Page may have been seen
in Wilton, Connecticut, near Schneck's Island. March sixth, Wilton PD
teams up with Norwalk PD to search the area with drones.
An officer spots closed on the bank of the Norwalk River.

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Family members confirmed the items belong to Page.

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Despite fast moving water from heavy rain, police and fire
teams search the Norwalk River. Divers locate pages remains near
Maine Avenue and Gristmill Road. Authorities have not released her
cause of death. In Plymouth, Massachusetts, a man searching for
deer antlers finds a human skull missing its jaw. Police
block off the area but finds no other remains. The

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skull sent to the state crime lab for anwtheralys grout,
and Connecticut police discover a woman's body in a suitcase
outside Colonel Ledyard Cemetery. Investigators believe the remains were dumped
there in mid February.

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Denise Leary grows up in Connecticut with her four siblings,
but raises her two children in Atlanta. When Denise's mom
suffers a stroke, Denise and her son move back to
New Haven to help. Ahead of a date, Denise asks
her son to help her turn off the phone's location
sharing before she goes out. A few days later, when
missus Leary's nurse arrives, Denise does not come out of

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her room to greet her or offer a hand. Denise's
son knocks on her bedroom door, but with no answer.
He calls nine to one one and paramedics break down
the door, but his mother isn't inside. New Haven PD
find Denise's cell phone and makeup palette outside in abandoned home,
but no signs of Denise.

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Then, in late.

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March, Leary's decomposed remains are found behind a backyard fence.
Calls him death undetermined. Warwick, Rhode Island, Michelle Romanos starts
missing her daily dog walks report her missing. Eight months later,
her remains are found in Foster thirty miles away. Police
call her death suspicious, but do not reveal further details.
Skeletal remains of a man are discovered near Davis's Brook

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in killing Lee, Connecticut. Police believe he likely died about
a year ago and said there is no link to
Romano's death. In Massachusetts, firefighters battling of brush fires stumble
across another human skeleton. Investigators say those remains had been
there for several months. Megan Meredith is found dead on
a bike trail along the Connecticut River in Springfield, mass

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Police are investigating her death as a homicide. Officials continue
to urge calm, but online rumors of a serial killer
in New England are growing. Investigators maintained there is no
confirmed link between the recent discoveries. For full details on
the possible case of a serial killer in New England,
join Nancy Tonight at six' nine at Midnight eastern On
Merritt Street. Media you can check your local listings to

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grace wherever you get your. Podcasts more crime and justice.
News after, this fourteen year Old Lydia Anne perkins disappears
from The Cardinal valley neighborhood Of, Lexington, Kentucky october twenty

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sixth of nineteen ninety. Seven she had been visiting her
boyfriend's house with her younger brother earlier that. Day her brother,
left Then lydia. Left she made it back to her
family's home On Rugby road and called her. Cousin she
was never seen or heard from. Again her family reported
her missing within. Hours for the first two, years police
Treated lydia as a runaway because she had a history

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of running. Away she had never gone far from her neighborhood,
before though she had never stayed away long. Either lydia
was born six weeks. Premature her twin sister died at.
Birth she grew up very close to her younger, Brother,
justin who was with her that. Day he later, said,
quote my best. Friend you always look for somebody to go.
To twenty five years after her, death her, Mother Sherry,

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thompson lights a candle For lydia every holiday. Season she,
says after a quarter, century, QUOTE i never thought that
twenty five years would go by without my. Daughter you want.
Justice you want to find out who did this to
her so you can protect other. Children, justin who is
now a father himself said he wants his daughters to
always stay close to each other the way he stayed
close To. Lydia lydia had shoulder length red hair which

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may have been dyed black or bright. Red she was
white with hazel. Eyes when she, disappeared she was four
eleven ninety. Pounds she had a brown circular birthmark on
the right side of her, neck scars on her right
eyebrow and. Forehead today she would be forty. Two anyone
with information has urged to contact The Lexington Fayett Urban
County division Of police eight five nine two five eight

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Nelson how could a, beautiful young first grade teacher be
stabbed twenty, times including in the, back allegedly die of? Suicide,
yes that was a medical examiner's official ruling after a

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closed door. Meeting he first named it a. Homicide why
what happened To Ellen greenberg a Huge american miscarriage of.
Justice for an in depth look at the, facts see
What happened To ellen On. Amazon all proceeds to The

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National center For missing And Exploited. Children