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Carol Ann Fitzmaurice

A nurse? Stabbed 14 times during the day in a rural location? Could the killer of Carol Ann Fitzmaurice have migrated north after 1970 to become the predator known as the Connecticut River Valley Killer in the 1980s? A neighbor remembers seeing "... a thin individual, about six feet tall with narrow facial features – near the home around the time of the murder. Police said the man's red or maroon car..." Cold Case Files: Brutal 1970 murder of nurse remains a mystery  By Dan Herbeck |   February 3, 2018 The Buffalo News Nearly five decades later, the murder of Carol Ann Fitzmaurice still haunts retired State Police Investigator J. Thomas Stofer. Every once in awhile, his mind races back to Oct. 20, 1970, and the unanswered questions that still puzzle and distress him. Why would anyone walk into a house in Cattaraugus County farm country and brutally stab a 23-year-old nurse who had no known enemies? Did the killer k