Michael B. Ross was Connecticut's first execution by lethal injection and the last before Connecticut abolished the death penalty in 2012. Ross was called the "Roadside Strangler" by a British TV show about serial killers, but was never called that by police or the media. 

In 2015, The Man in the Monster: An Intimate Portrait of a Serial Killer, a detailed account of Ross’s killing spree, capture, trial, time in prison and execution, was published by Penguin Press, written by Martha Elliott.