‘He was hunting females along the Cape Cod Canal.’ Investigators explore new lead in 1977 disappearance.

“Thank God you did that article,” Nagle said in a recent phone interview. “That’s what got me interested in Simone.”

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A new lead has emerged in a decades-old missing person case, thanks to a veteran homicide detective who credits the Globe’s Cold Case Files for helping him identify a possible suspect.

When Rick Nagle, a retired State Police detective lieutenant, read the Globe’s most recent story about Simone Ridinger’s disappearance in 1977, he immediately thought of Eric H. Anderson Jr., a convicted killer from southeastern Massachusetts with a history of violent assaults on women…

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