The area on the border of New Hampshire and Vermont known as the Connecticutt River Valley seems an unlikely place to be the host of a serial murderer. But in the late 1970's and early 1980's not one, but two, such killers roamed the scenic region in search of victims. One, Gary Schaefer, was eventually captured but the other remains uncaught to this day.

The unknown slayer's first victim was likely Cathy Millican, 26, her body found on September 25, 1978, in a wetlands preserve near New London, New Hampshire. She had been stabbed to death. It was not until Schaefer had claimed his three victims that the Valley Killer struck again on May 30, 1984. Nurse's aid Bernice Courtemanche, 17 when she disappeared, was not found until almost two years after her disappearance. A subsequent autopsy revealed evidence that she too had been stabbed to death.

Nurse Ellen Fried went missing on July 10, 1984, but her remains were not discovered until over a year later in rural New Hampshire. Her autopsy also showed signs that she had died by knife. Eva Morse was last seen hitchhiking in Charlestown, New Hampshire, after leaving her place of work on July 10, 1985. Her corpse was not located until logger found it on April 25, 1986, with obvious evidence of knife wounds. Next was Lynda Moore, stabbed to death in her home outside of Saxtons River, Vermont, on May 15, 1986. Courtemanche, Fried, and Morse had all disappeared from Claremont , New Hampshire.

Another nurse was murdered by the elusive killer in January of 1987. Barbera Agnew, 36, disappeared on her way home from a ski trip. Her car was soon found abandoned at a Vermont rest stop but her body was not discovered unti March 28. She too was the victim of a vicious stabbing with wounds in the neck and lower abdomen area, which investigators were learning was the Valley Killer's signature. Two more murders, one dating back to 1968, are also considered as possible victims of the elusive killer despite the fact that both victims were strangled, not stabbed.

The best lead in the series involved the attack of Jane Boroski, apparently a survivor of the relentless slayer. Borowski was cornered by a man outside of a rural store near Keane, New Hampshire, on the night of August 6 1988. The assailant pulled the pregnant 22-year-old from her car and proceeded to stab her repeatedly until another vehicle approached and scared the man away. Boroski survived the ordeal to later give birth to a healthy baby girl.

An artist's rendering of Boroski's attacker led police nowhere and the Valley Killer apparently left his hunting grounds forever after his unsuccessful attack.