Confessor of 8 Murders is Connecticut's Last Execution

Michael B. Ross was Connecticut's first execution by lethal injection and the last before Connecticut abolished the death penalty in 2012. Ross was called the "Roadside Strangler" by a British TV show about serial killers, but was never called that by police or the media.

In 2015, The Man in the Monster: An Intimate Portrait of a Serial Killer, a detailed account of Ross’s killing spree, capture, trial, time in prison and execution, was published by Penguin Press, written by Martha Elliott.