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                           October 7, 2006 Saturday
                                STATE EDITION

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A1

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HEADLINE: 1988 stabbing survivor hopes for fresh clue

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   By CAROL ROBIDOUX
Union Leader Staff<ENDBY>

MANCHESTER -- Florida investigator Lynn-Marie Carty believes she has solved the
18-year-old case of a brutal Swanzey attack in which a pregnant Jane Boroski was
stabbed 27 times in August 1988.

   And if she's right, her piles of research, photographs and police reports may
lead investigators to breaks in at least eight other unsolved New England
murders dating back to the 1980s.
Boroski, who survived the brutal attack, stood quietly next to Carty last night
during a news conference at the Holiday Inn on Brown Avenue. She hardly moved a
muscle as Carty held up a photograph of Michael Nicholaou, the man she believes
is guilty of the attack.
"This man has been described to me as a "Ted Bundy," by old girlfriends, as a
sociopath, as a Casanova," said Carty, holding up a photo of Nicholaou, circa
1988.
Nicholaou killed himself after murdering his wife and stepdaughter on New Year's
Eve 2005 in Tampa, Fla.
"I need to get this finalized for this woman right here," Carty said, looking
over at Boroski. "I have been trying and trying to prove this is not the guy who
attacked Jane, but all the evidence I have, all the evidence there is, says
otherwise."
Carty flew in yesterday to ask the public on Boroski's behalf for help in
digging up any lost details about Nicholaou that may finally put the case to
rest.
"We need to connect him to a Jeep Wagoneer he was driving the night of the
attack on Jane," said Carty. "It's not easy to put things together with
circumstantial evidence. But we're so close now."
Carty was hired almost a decade ago as a private investigator to look into the
disappearance of Michelle Ashley, a Massachusetts woman who vanished four months
after Boroski's attack.
Ashley had been living with Nicholaou in Holyoke, Mass., and was the mother of
his two children.
Last night, Carty connected all the dots she could, linking Nicholaou not only
to the attack on Boroski in a Swanzey parking lot, but placing him within
striking distance of at least two of the women stabbed to death in New England
by a murderer who was never caught.
Michael Leclair, a former Vermont State Police captain and lead investigator in
the Connecticut River Valley murders, said last night he has seen all of Carty's
evidence, and believes it's time for police to rule Nicholaou in, or rule him
out.
"I'm hoping New Hampshire has the DNA to compare from the Boroski case against
Nicholaou. If we make him on one case, I think he could be looked at closely for
several other of the valley homicides," said Leclair, who has since retired from
the force.
For years he worked with psychologist and profiler John Philpin, and both were
interviewed extensively for a book about the unsolved murders, "The Shadow of
Death,"
Last night Philpin said from his Vermont home that it is frustrating to know New
Hampshire may be sitting on good evidence.
"It doesn't take four months to get DNA tests or fingerprints. I don't know what
they're doing," he said. New Hampshire State Police Detective Steve Rowland last
night said all questions in the Boroski case have been referred to Jeff Strelzin
at the Attorney General's office.
"I can only tell you that it is an active investigation," Rowland.
Last night Boroski said she is grateful for the time and interest Carty has
taken in solving the case.
"I know it's an old case for New Hampshire investigators. But I'm trying to let
them know that I'm not just a case number. With a little more attention from
them, it might be settled for good," she said.
Last night was the first time Boroski has allowed herself to be publicly
photographed, without a disguise. That is how certain she is that her attacker
died the night Nicholaou killed himself in Florida.
"I can't tell you what a sense of peace I had, after Lynn-Marie showed me that
picture," she said, referring to one of Nicholaou taken around the time of her
attack. "Being able to see his face, and to know in my heart that I didn't have
to be scared anymore."
Anyone with information can contact Carty at 1-866-400-FIND or their local
police.