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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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