For more than a year, police have been waiting for an FBI search dog to go through a wooded area in New Britain where bodies have been found, as detectives try to close three unsolved murder cases.
Yesterday and early today the dog found something, marked with orange tags in the area behind a strip mall between Route 9 and Hartford Road. What the dog came up with, New Britain Police Chief James Wardwell would not reveal.
"We are plotting and searching the entire area, utilizing all the resources we have and all of the specialists," Wardwell said. "As time moves on, so does our technical ability to locate the evidence we’re looking for."
He said police have worked through the area every year since a hunter found a skull in 2007. Since then, they have identified the bodies of Joyvaline Martinez, Diane Cusack and Mary Jane Menard.
"Anyone that has information relating to the human remains we recovered in 2007, they're encouraged to call the New Britain Police Department," Wardwell said.
Dectectives don't know yet who killed the women, but the Greater New Britain Serial Killer Task Force continues its painstaking efforts.
Wardwell said police will comb through the area again tomorrow.
