Cold Case Files

(A&E, 1999-2006; Netflix, 2017—) true crime series

One half hour of the September 23, 2006, show, titled "Deadly Stroll," was devoted to the case of Jeffrey Mailhot, Woonsocket's serial murderer. During 2003 and 2004 Mailhot preyed on prostitutes he picked up on Arnold Street, brought back to his apartment, strangled, dismembered, and disposed of in trash bins around the city. He's known to have killed three women; the escape of another, Jocilin Martel, led to his arrest. Locations used in the episode include Arnold Street, the Central Landfill in Johnston (where remains of the third victim, Stacie K. Goulet, were found), the Woonsocket police station where Mailhot was held and where he confessed, and the Licht Judicial Complex in Providence where he pleaded guilty in early 2006. The landlord of Mailhot's apartment at 221 Cato Street wouldn't give permission to film inside, so producers had to settle for filming on the street itself.