Questions Surround Fisherman's Death Weeks After Disappearance Thirty-one year old Christopher Schmeller was reported missing by friends on September 30, 2002. On October 10, 2002 Tuesday morning about 10 feet down an embankment in a wooded area near the weigh station, his body was found. The Westerly Rhode Island Fisherman had died as a result of blunt trauma. The area was just off of Interstate 95 in Waterford, Connecticut and has had dead bodies left there before. Police from both Connecticut and Rhode Island have worked on the case and have labeled Schmeller's death as suspicious. A friend of his had reported that he was last seen at the Superior Court House in Wakefield and had been nervous about finding a ride home because of an individual he had feared was there at the time. If you have any information about the suspicious death of Christopher Schmeller please contact the Waterford Police Department at (860)-442-9451 or the Westerly, Rhode Island Police Department at 401-596-2022.

A Taunting Phone Call Proves True As A Woman Still Remains Missing "You will never find her." The caller told Charlotte Saulnier. The caller was referring to her twenty-seven year old daughter Katrina McVeigh. The mother of three disappeared from Front and Lincoln Street in Woonsocket in June of 1992. The family strongly believes that Katrina is deceased and knew her murderer. She had just gotten out of an longterm abusive relationship. Her last known address was 295 Second Avenue. Her brother has stated that he believed that she may have been buried on the banks of the Blackstone River in town. Sadly her disappearance is not the only case of disappearances and unsolved murders in the town of Woonsocket. On March 17, 1994, 28 year old Meaghan Paul was found stabbed to death in her third-floor apartment at 233 North Main Street. According to an official with the Woonsocket Police Department, both Paul and McVeigh "lived in an environment of drugs and prostitution." Cindy Roberts went missing in July 2001 and her remains were found in a wooded area in the town of Lincoln. Most recently, Vicki Connolly who was thirty-three years old went missing on September 6, 2007. Her body was found two months later just off of Spring Lake Road in the Black Hut State Management Area in Burriville. In 2004, Woonsocket resident Jeffrey Mailhot confessed to murdering three women from Woonsocket, two (Audrey Harris and Christine Dumont) have never been recovered. Mailhot is one of the few serial killers in Rhode Island history and is not believed to be a suspect in any of the other city's murders or disappearances. If you have any information about any of these cases please call the Woonsocket Police Department at (401)766-1212.

Murder of Mob Enforcer Still Unsolved Kevin Hanrahan was a feared man, a physically imposing individual, he was often hired to beat up people, extort and murder. According to Providence Journal journalist Zachary Malinowski, �Anytime there was a mob hit, Hanrahan topped the state police list of possible suspects.� This included the unsolved murder/hit in a Federal Hill (Providence) Restaurant of Raymond �Slick� Vecchio in 1982. On September 18, 1992, he had dinner with a police informant and two other mob associates. He went to a bar called The Arch, where he told others he was expecting a �big score.� After leaving the Arch he walked down Atwells Avenue to go to a restaurant in North Providence. He was confronted by two men at the corner of Pequot and Atwells. One of them pulled a gun and fired three bullets into Hanrahan�s head. Hanrahan died not far from where Raymond �Slick� Vecchio had perished ten years earlier. Hanrahan�s killers have never been found but at the time of his slaying the Patriarca crime family was involved in an internal war between the Providence and Boston factions. For more information about the Rhode Island mob please visit W. Zachary Malinowski�s excellent series of articles at the Providence Journal.

A Grisly Message From the Mob Twenty-three year old Barry R. Kourmpates had been living the high life of crime. Strip clubs, fancy cars and money. He was burgler who with a couple of friends, specialized in breaking into people�s homes and stealing money from their safes. In March of 1993, her was paroled from prison after serving fourteen months for a conviction on breaking and entering charges. But he had bigger problems, than a record with law enforcement. It is believed that some of the money he had stolen was from people connected to notorious Rhode Island underworld figures. Rhode Island State Police said that on May 7th of 1994, Kourmpates was seen alive visiting various friends in Warwick, Central Falls and Providence. May 8th was Mother�s Day in 1994 and a grisly discovery was made that afternoon Beavertail State Park in Jamestown, a human body badly charred. A medical Examiner later revealed that the deceased person had been shot multiple times and bled to death before being set ablaze. The body was of Barry Kourmpates and Rhode Island State Police theorize that his death was meant as a message, �Don�t rob the Mob�. If you have any information about this case you are urged to call the Rhode Island State Police at (401) 444-1000.

Brazen Shooting of Cab Driver Still Unsolved Jose Rodriguez was just trying to make a living in an occupation that is one of the most dangerous to work in. On July 16, 2007 the 42 year old married father of two children had picked up three men that day from Providence that day. He was later found with a gunshot wound to his head in his cab on Fuller Avenue between Sumner and Garfield streets. The next day Rodriguez succumbed to his injuries. Law Enforcement is hoping that someone saw what transpired because this crime occurred during the daytime. If you have any information about the murder of Jose Rodriguez you are urged to contact Detective Nichole Rave at 727-7411 extension 3123. There is a four thousand dollar reward being offered.

Justice in 1988 Murders of Two Young Girls Still Remains Elusive Seven year old Michelle Norris was found murdered on May 30, 1988 on a wooded hill behind Brook Street. The young girl had gone missing four days prior from outside of the Captain G. Harold Hunt Elementary School in the small city of Central Falls. Norris had been beaten, raped and then suffocated to death. Sadly Michelle was not the only young Rhode Island girl to be a victim of homicide that year. Ten year old Christine Cole of Pawtucket was found murdered on Februrary 28th on the beach at Conimicut Point in Warwick. She had been reported missing on January 6th, two months prior after she had gone to a nearby supermarket that afternoon. Her murder is also unsolved. If you have any information about these two cases please call the Rhode Island State Police at (401) 721-2622 or (401) 721-2618.

Bones Found On Beach Don't Answer All The Questions Regarding College Freshman That Disappeared The first year of college can always be an adjustment. For 18 year old New Jersey resident, Bryan Nisenfeld, it proved to be more that just that. On February 6th, 1997, the architecture major left a college class and seemingly disappeared. At first it seemed that the Roger Williams College student may have taken off, he had been homesick and emotionally upset. College officials notified Nisenfeld's parents six days later that their son was missing. It seemed through various reports that College officials and the Bristol Police Department thought that Nisenfeld ran away. Six months later a woman and her daughter were walking along Hog's Beach when they came across a boot with a human foot in it. DNA testing later revealed that the foot and a bone found nearby belonged to Nisenfeld. College officials and Bristol Police theorized that Nisenfeld may have slipped on some rocks and fell into the water or that he committed suicide by jumping off the Mt. Hope Bridge. However, Nisenfeld had received threats from a former Roger Williams College student that he knew during his first semester. It is not clear if Nisenfeld was friends with or romatically involved with this other male student. However, just days before Nisenfeld disappeared, this former student allegedly threatened him via a phone call to come back to campus and harm Nisenfeld. Suicide, accident or murder, we may never know. For more information about this case please view this story by the Provience Phoenix newspaper. If you know anything about the death of Bryan Nisenfeld you are urged to call the Rhode Island State Police at (401)444-1000.

Execution Murder of Providence Doctor Still Unsolved April 10, 2001 fifty-one year old Doctor Hani Zaki was found murdered in his bed at his home at 91 Prospect Street. He was shot in the back of the head. Zaki was a wealthy doctor who despite his millions also had trouble in his occupation. He had been suspended from practicing surgery for seventeen months and he had dozens of malpractice lawsuits against him. Besides the trouble in his professional life, the married father of two was alleged to have carried on several affairs and was also believed to be an abusive and controlling husband. The doctor�s widow Deborah Zaki has been viewed by Providence Police as a suspect in is murder. There has been speculation about an affair she may have had as well as a prenuptial agreement that she had signed giving her a one-time payment of seventy-five thousand dollars upon a divorce. However, there has been no arrest made and there could be other people who may have wanted the Doctor of Egyptian ancestry dead. An angry husband of a woman he was involved with? A patient with a grudge? If you have any information about this case you are urged to contact the Providence Police Department at 401-272-3121.

Reward Offered in Murder of City Man On August 29, 2008 between the times of 4:15 and 4:30 a.m., 63-year-old Carl Seebeck as shot to death as he was walked near 300 Broadway in Pawtucket. Prior to his murder, He was walking from his house to the Roosevelt Avenue bus stop after having stopped at a nearby Dunkin Donuts. He was on his way to work. There is a five thousand dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Seeback's killer(s). Please contact the Pawtucket Police at at (401) 727-9100 extension 726 or extension 712.

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