Does the number of unsolved murders in the White Mountains strike anyone as odd or disproportionate?

A very short post. Here's the link someone raised in a Franconia/North Country topix forum just now. Frankly, I'm overwhelmed. Sixteen (16) above the Laconia parallel? Given the population density and the nature of what most of these people were doing -- you know, like hiking as opposed to gang warfare -- it doesn't seem right to me. Could be a deeper problem up there. I know of more than these too, including last fall's Kelly Gorham, in which a Grand Jury convened but apparently no indictment issued and no more news available. Here is the 2005 TrueCrimeWeblog coverage on Maura Murray's case from Steve that considers a possible nursing link and more about Maura and a bloody knife from Reporter Maribeth Conway here or you can visit my blog and run a word search for "bloody knife."