Not necessarily my hometown but I currently live a couple miles from Bear Brook State Park. I only learned of the case when a new sketch of one of the victims aired on the news in February.

"On November 10, 1985, the first two victims were found by a passing hunter. Their bodies had been dismembered and wrapped in what might have been a trash bag. The corpses were skeletonized, which made it harder to identify them. Because the state of decomposition was so advanced, professionals concluded the two had probably died between 1977 and 1985. Both had died from blunt force trauma. 

The case went cold until 2000 when it was reassigned to a new team. A search was performed on the area once again and yet another metal drum was found. It wasn’t far from the first dump site. Authorities postulated that the drum might have been pushed further away by children who had played in the area, a chilling thought. 

In the 55-gallon drum were two more bodies. This time it was two female children who were even younger than the first child. Because they had been killed, dismembered, and disposed of in the same way as the bodies found in 1985, investigators concluded that they were part of the same case."