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Who Killed...?

Who Killed the Women of New Bedford, Mass.?

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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0:00.0

Slow Burn Media and Bill Huffman present this week's episode of Who Killed the Women of New Bedford Mass.

0:08.7

30 years ago marked the beginning of a reign of terror.

0:12.0

The women who went missing had two things in common.

0:14.6

They were drug addicted and each from or at least last seen in New Bedford.

0:19.0

Nine were found murdered along local highways. Two were never found, and the killer was never caught.

0:25.6

Analyzed a lot of these areas, and it would lead us to believe that we want to go back to those areas

0:30.6

and look for at least two people in hopes of finding them if they are there.

0:34.6

Now, no one has ever been charged for the murderers, leaving a cloud

0:38.4

of mystery hanging over southeastern Massachusetts for three decades. As we headed into

0:43.9

1989, six bodies had been found in the highway murder case. On the end of March, there would be two

0:49.7

more. No arrests had been made. The families of victims had suffered most.

0:55.0

The condition of the bodies made it difficult for medical examiners to determine a cause of death,

1:01.0

except with two victims. Investigators say they were strangled.

1:05.0

Eleven women missing nine bodies recovered.

1:08.0

Thirty years ago this month, women started disappearing from New Bedford.

1:12.3

In just a six-month time period, 11 victims vanished. One of those horrific crimes that

1:19.1

Southern New England has ever seen, and it's still unsolved to this day. The A says police are now

1:25.2

looking at a number of possible suspects.

1:29.8

Tony DeGrazio became a suspect.

1:32.6

James Baker was a truck driver.

1:37.4

I wish to state that I demand that your harassment of me be stopped immediately.

1:43.8

Investigators found the remains of nine women between the ages of 19 and 36 years old. And they all tend to kill within a comfort zone with an anchor point that could be the killer's

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