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Joseph "Mad Dog" Taborsky (March 23, 1924 – May 17, 1960) was an American serial killer who was sentenced to death after a string of robberies and murders in Connecticut during the 1950s. Six people were killed during these events, which became known as the "Mad Dog Killings."
William Devin Howell (born February 11, 1970) is an American serial killer who was convicted of murdering seven women in 2003. He is one of the worst serial killers in Connecticut history.
At the time, it was the worst mass murder in Connecticut history. [1] Two local men were convicted of the murders: Ronald F. "Tiny" Piskorski, a 25‐year‐old former bar bouncer and circus‐bear wrestler, and Gary B. Schrager, a 31‐year‐old drifter.
Investigators ruled the death a homicide. The victim was described as white, average height, with an athletic type body. In May 2024, the woman was identified as 65-year-old Constance Bassignani, who had been last seen on Memorial Day Weekend in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Her husband is considered a person of interest in her murder. [22] [23 ...
On July 23, 2007, two home intruders entered the home of the Petit family in Cheshire, Connecticut, United States.The perpetrators, Linda Hayes (known as Steven Hayes at the time) [b] and Joshua Andrew Komisarjevsky, initially planned only to burgle the house, but went on to murder Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, 17-year-old Hayley Petit and 11-year-old Michaela Petit.
Michael Bruce Ross (July 26, 1959 – May 13, 2005) was an American serial killer who was executed by the state of Connecticut in 2005. He was the last person executed in Connecticut before the state ended capital punishment in 2012.
Emanuel Lovell Webb (born April 9, 1966), known as The East End Killer, is an American serial killer who raped and killed four women in Bridgeport, Connecticut, from 1990 to 1993. After the murders were connected and a search for the killer was underway, Webb moved to Georgia , where he raped and killed a woman in Vidalia in 1994.
Lorne Joe Acquin (March 21, 1950 – June 2015) [2] was a Canadian-American mass murderer who killed his foster brother's wife, her seven children, and their niece in their home at Cedar Hill Drive in Prospect, Connecticut, on July 22, 1977, by beating them to death with a tire iron.