The three women who were found dead at alleged serial killer Stewart Weldon's home in Massachusetts last week have been identified as local missing women. 

America Lyden, Ernestine Ryans and Kayla Escalante were named by Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni as the three victims found last Wednesday at Weldon's Springfield, Massachusetts, home.

Lyden, 33, was reported missing in December last year but had not been heard from by her family since last June.  It is not clear how long Ryans, 47, had been missing. Escalante was the youngest victim at 26. She had been missing since December. 

Authorities have not yet revealed how or when they died but they say it is 'unlike anything they have ever seen before. 

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