
Anna Pawelczyk was born in 1912 to Russian-Polish immigrants. Her father, Stanley, was a mill worker. He married Marjanna Zelenska and they immigrated to Massachusetts, where they had four children. As a child, Anna’s parents called her “Annie.” By 1930, Anna was 18 years old and married to William Lavallee, 24. They were living…

On Wednesday, July 14, 1976, a local high school teacher and two of his family members were wandering through the old abandoned cemetery on Scofieldtown Road. The grounds were known as a potters field: a place for the poor, unclaimed, and unidentified. They were out looking for historical grave markers, near the UConn Stamford…

On Friday, June 5, 1981, 21-month-old Jovonna Crawford was being babysat by her mom’s boyfriend, Ronald Garrett. Jovonna was wearing a blue and white jumpsuit, and earrings in her pierced ears. He was supposed to drop her off with her maternal grandmother, Mary Moales, after a short while. Mary Corbin, Jovonna’s mother, came home…

Newtown, Connecticut is a small town that has had the misfortune to be in the national headlines more than once. Regina Brown’s disappearance was overshadowed heavily by the “Woodchipper Murder” – where Helle Crafts was killed by her husband who tried to dispose of her body by freezing it and sending it through a…

Today marks 70 years since Robert “Bob” Hart, Jr. was shot to death in Shelton. To this day, his murder has not been solved.