The Shoebox Murders: Sometimes The Past Is Better Kept Hidden
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  • Parts 8
  • Time 1h 3m
Ongoing, First published Oct 25, 2018
Mature
Based on a true story. It's 2014 in New Haven, Connecticut when a young woman discovers something horrific. A bloody sawed off, woman's hand wrapped in waxed lined paper in a shoebox. After investigating into whose hand it was, she realizes that she's not the only one. A young man had found a bloody woman's hand, belonging to the same woman, in the same manner a year before. 

She befriends this man and makes it her mission to find the poor woman's killer and the rest of her body. But, will she be too late? Or will she catch him before something bad happens to her?

This is a modern-day twist on the true story of the unsolved murder case the newspaper called "The Shoe Box Murders." It's about a copy cat serial killer on the loose in the streets of New Haven, Connecticut hoping to never be found. But what happens when a young woman gets too involved? Will she be able to catch him before his next kill? Or will she become his next target? Sometimes the past is better kept hidden.

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