NEW BRITAIN, Conn. – A seventh body found at a Connecticut dumping ground believed to have been used by a serial killer has been identified as a woman who went missing in 2003.
New Britain police said Monday medical examiners identified the woman as 26-year-old Marilyn Gonzalez, of Waterbury. Police Chief James Wardwell says Gonzalez had two young daughters when she disappeared and would have been a grandmother today.
All seven people found buried behind a strip mall in New Britain disappeared in 2003.
William Devin Howell has emerged as the prime suspect. He's serving a 15-year prison sentence for manslaughter handed down in 2005 in the deaths of one of the seven victims. He hasn't been charged in the other killings and hasn't commented.
The Hampton, Virginia, man used to live in New Britain.
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