Probe of Connecticut serial killings leads detectives to suspect's former home in Virginia
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Police in Connecticut say an investigation into the suspected serial killings of seven people has led detectives to a Virginia home where a key suspect once lived.
New Britain police Chief James Wardwell said Thursday authorities including an FBI police dog team were searching a home in Hampton, 500 miles southwest of New Britain.
The search is connected to the discovery of seven bodies behind a strip mall in New Britain. Police believe all the victims were killed in 2003 by one person but haven't publicly named the person.
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However drifter William Devin Howell grew up in Hampton and is serving a 15-year prison sentence in the killing of a woman whose body was among those behind the strip mall. Public records show he lived at the home being searched.
Howell hasn't been charged in the other killings.