Welcome back to another week, of Unsolved, everyone. This week we have another older case, this time from all the way in New Hampshire.

From around 1978 to 1987 in the areas surrounding Claremont, New Hampshire, a serial killer is suspected to have killed at least seven women. One of the biggest hurdles in investigating serial murders is finding enough evidence to connect each separate case to each other, but this was not as much of a problem in this case. This first two sets of remains to be found were found months apart, but only 1000 feet from each other and both killed by stab wounds. Cause of death was not easy to determine because of the state of decomposition, though. Between when these two bodies were found, another woman was found stabbed to death in her own home, and then another set of remains was found with stab wounds being the cause of death. These events coincided in a very narrow timeline, which was enough for investigators to connect the cases and even look further back and notice that two other stabbing cases could also have a connection.

The first two women killed were Cathy Millican (27) and Mary Critchley (37), and these were the victims who police only connected to this killer after they decided to look further back into their past stabbings. Millican was in the area taking pictures of wildlife when she was killed, and when her body was found, she had suffered 29 stab wounds. Three years later, Critchley disappeared after last being seen hitchhiking along Interstate 91.

The next several killings were done under very similar circumstances except for that of Lynda Moore (36). She lived near Interstate 91 where Critchley was abducted from, but she was not outside alone, but in her own home when she was attacked. This case was also significant because it had witnesses who described seeing a sticky, dark-haired man with a blue bag near the home on the day Moore was killed. Enough information was gathered to draw a composite sketch, which was a very promising lead.

This case intensified even more in 1988 when Jane Boroski was attacked near a closed store. She was stabbed 27 times before the man drove away, but she managed to get into her car and go to her friend’s house, where she again saw her attacker who had followed her. When people came to help her he drove away, but she was able to both give a description of him and the first few characters of his license plate. This was apparently enough to scare the killer, because there were no more attacks in the area after that, but the police were also unable to find the man.

The case has gone cold since then, and no new information has been found, but many wonder if the killer really stopped or if they moved to a new location to kill even more women.