Hello everyone and welcome to police off the cuff real crime stories.

I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

You know, I've been getting a lot of people sending me emails and concerned about what has taken sort of a life of its own on social media.

And you see the map up on the screen.

And you read the post fears.

Concern grows of a possible New England serial killer.

Now, we've all watched, you know, the Gilgo Beach case

and how for many, many years, we'll pull up the map.

All of these bodies and body parts were found along Gilgo Beach.

And yet for years and years and years, the Suffolk County police denied that there was even a

problem, that any of them were even related.

So under that sort of umbrella, under that culture, many people, you can understand people in Connecticut, not buying this.

All right, you got six bodies, seven body parts with a skull.

What's going on here?

And it's in the New England area across Connecticut, Rhode Island, right? And people are quite concerned, and I think

they should be. But let's see if we can perhaps ally some of your fears by looking at at least

three of the cases and asking, well, what's going on? These are relatively new.

And what are the causes of death of these bodies and body parts? Because if they're connected,

are they connected by geography? Are they connected by the age and the social condition of the victims?

Look, don't forget, in Gilgo, the Gilgo Beach cases, nearly all of the victims were sex workers. So far, we don't know a lot about the

victims here. But I think that if the individual police agencies that have these cases

would be a little more transparent, that perhaps there wouldn't be social media sites popping up

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