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About Dark Waters: The Hunt for the Connecticut River Valley Killer

In the quiet woods of New England, a predator was waiting. Between 1978 and 1988, a series of brutal, unsolved murders terrorized the Connecticut River Valley. Women — all alone, all vulnerable — vanished from roadsides, hiking trails, and even their own yards, only to be found stabbed dozens of times and left in the wilderness. Then, one summer night in 1988, the killer made a mistake. Jane Boroski, a young pregnant woman, was stabbed twenty-seven times and left for dead — but she lived. Her harrowing escape remains the single thread connecting a decade of terror to the man who still walks free. Dark Waters is the full account of the Connecticut River Valley Killer: his victims, the investigation that failed to catch him, and the survivor who faced him and lived to tell the tale. Combining meticulous research with chilling narrative, this book dives deep into the mystery of one of America’s most elusive serial killers — and asks how a monster could hunt in plain sight for so long. Because the river still runs. And the woods still keep their secret “In the shadows of the valley, he hunted. In the silence of the woods, his secrets remain.”

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