“But New Bedford had its share of criminal infamy as well, including the 1983 Big Dan’s gang rape case (which later became the basis for the Jodie Foster film The Accused), the brutal and unsolved highway serial killings of the late 1980s that claimed the lives of at least nine young women, a ritual killing and other atrocities in the nearby Freetown State Forest, and criminal satanic cult activity throughout the area in the 1980s and into the early 1990s. But in recent years much of New Bedford... had seen a resurgence and was a place where most residents had put those incidents and times behind them, tucked away in the dark past where they belong, and instead embraced the progress the city had made since. For Joel, it brought up a tremendous amount of emotions. He’d expected his return to elicit some strong feelings, but he hadn’t been ready for what hit him. Though he only had to cover a small section of the city to reach Shawmut Avenue, he broke out in a cold sweat as visions of the church where Cindy Mello had been murdered flashed in his mind, along with a flood of memories he couldn’t control.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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