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Long Island Serial Killer Hunt: Police Release Sketches of Victims

By , JOSH EINIGER and  (@jesshop23)

Police released sketches of two unidentified victims dumped on a Long Island beach by at least one serial killer, including a man dressed as a woman and a woman who may have worked as a prostitute.

The skeletal remains of a female toddler found this past April were linked by DNA to the skeletal remains of a woman found seven miles away, police said.

“It is likely that these two individuals were mother and child,” Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said today.

In addition to the sketches, Dormer released pictures of jewelry and other personal details about the five unidentified sets of remains found along on a stretch of beach off of Ocean County Parkway in Long Island, N.Y.

“We are hopeful that the release of this additional information will aid our investigation in helping identify the unknown victims and their killer or killers,” Dormer said at a press conference.

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Since December of last year, New York investigators have found 10 sets of human remains in Suffolk and Nassau County. Five of those remains have been identified as prostitutes, and the rest remain a mystery.

One of the sketches released was of a slightly built male victim who police said was wearing female clothing at the time of his death. Police said the Asian man was between 17 and 23 years old and approximately 5- feet-6. The man was missing both his top and bottom molars and one of his top front teeth, police said.

The death could have occurred between five and 10 years ago, police said.

The toddler is non-Caucasian and was wearing hoop earrings and a rope necklace, Dormer said. She was between 16 and 32 months old. The child’s adult relative had two bracelets on when she was murdered, one bracelet with Xs and Os with stones resembling diamonds and a snake chain, police said.

The two could have disappeared between one and five years ago, police said.

Sketch of Jane Doe 6/Suffolk County Police

Another victim identified as Jane Doe 6 was described as having been between the ages of 18 and 35 and approximately 5-feet-2. Her head, hands and right foot were recovered on April 4. Dormer said that DNA taken from those remains were linked to a torso found in Manorville, N.Y., in November 2000. A sketch showed a Caucasian woman with hair to her shoulders.

“To narrow the focus this woman would have been last seen alive in the late summer or fall in 2000…Consider that this woman may have been working as a prostitute in New York City during that time…This woman may have had a tattoo or other identifiable characteristic on her right ankle,” Dormer said.

A forensic artist is working on a third sketch of a woman whose legs were found in April. DNA from her remains has been linked to remains discovered on Fire Island in Nassau County, N.Y., in 1996.

Suffolk County police, who are being assisted by Nassau County cops as well as state police and the FBI, have been tight-lipped about the investigation. Law enforcement sources told ABC News that all of the victims appear to have been slain elsewhere, dismembered and transported to the beaches for disposal.

Four of the identified bodies were found wrapped in burlap in December 2010 and were prostitutes. They have been identified as Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Lynn Costello. All of the women advertised their services on Craigslist.

The most recent set of remains to be identified belonged to prostitute Jessica Taylor. In April, authorities recovered Taylor’s skull and hands. The rest of her body had been found 30 miles away in Manorville, N.Y., in 2003, the same area where Jane Doe 6’s torso was found.

Dormer made an appeal for help from New York City’s escorts.

“We also want to reach out to the people in the escort business to come forward with information. We are not interested in their occupation and feel that their information will be very valuable to this investigation,” Dormer said.

The Suffolk Police have not identified any suspects in the killing and will not say how many killers they believe may have used the beach as a dumping ground.

In December of last year, police first began scouring the pristine Gilgo Beach in the search for missing prostitute Shannan Gilbert. Her remains have not been recovered and the investigation into her disappearance is ongoing, police said.

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The page has quite a few photos and videos.
The possible connection to the Atlantic City Killer seems to have died out although with 10 bodies and at least 2 killers in NY who knows what will develop.

Experts Disagree Over Number Of Long Island Serial Killers

As the parents of a Stony Brook University student who went missing in 1998 wait to find out if their son is the unidentified John Doe found among the murdered prostitutes on Gilgo State Beach, some uninvolved criminologists are publicly doubting the current theory that the beach was a dumping ground for at least two killers.

 Daily News has rounded up a former detectives and a forensic psychologist who doubt the current theory of there being multiple killers—one who killed the four women found in December, one who killed the two dismembered women, one who killed the young Asian man and, assuming it was murdered, one who killed the toddler.

“I wouldn’t be so quick to be talking about multiple killers,” retired NYPD detective and textbook author Vernon Geberth told the tabloid. “The probability of having two serial killers using the same dumping ground is very, very remote—to the point where I don’t buy into it.”

And a forensic psychologist, N.G. Berrill, cautiously agrees saying that “That coincidence, in and of itself, would be remarkable.”

The two point out that bodies disposed of in different ways don’t necessarily mean different killers. Instead they could simply imply that the one killer tried out decapitation and then found he could get his rocks off without it. “I am looking at a serial killer who has basically progressed,” said Geberth. “He has become more effective at disposing of the bodies. He doesn’t have to go through all the work of decapitating his victims.”

But others think there is a good chance the police are on the right track seeking out at least two killers. Forensic psychologist Barbara Kirwin chimes in with this chilling point: “We are not talking about a person as much as we are talking about a place. That desolate stretch of Gilgo Beach is a haunted graveyard, and what holds it all together is that it is an unpatrolled, completely private and deserted place where you can dump a body.”

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Long Island Serial Murders: The Victims of a Killer – or Killers

By Jaclyn Gallucci on May 9th, 2011

It was 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert’s disappearance that led police to the discovery of a 15-mile-long graveyard on Ocean Parkway used by one or more killers. An investigator with a cadaver dog looking for Gilbert, a New Jersey woman who worked as a prostitute and was last seen meeting a client in Oak Beach in May 2010, found the first set of remains in early December of 2010. Later in the month, three more sets of remains were discovered in the area. In April of 2010 another six bodies or partial remains were found. None have been determined to be those of Shannan Gilbert. As of May 9, 2011 the known victims left on Ocean Parkway in order of their disappearance are:

Jane Doe: Nude torso found off Halsey Manor Road in Manorville Nov. 19, 2000; Head, hands and foot found on Ocean Parkway April 4, 2011. White female, 5’5”, 125 lbs, 35-40 years old, brown hair, body in pieces and wrapped in plastic bags. Head, hands and right foot missing. Died weeks before (November 2000)

Jessica Taylor: Nude torso found off Halsey Manor Road in Manorville July 26, 2003;  last seen weeks before (July 2003). Head, hands and forearm found on Ocean Parkway March 29, 2011. Taylor had recently left Washington, D.C. and multiple prostitution arrests. She had been working in the area of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in NYC when she disappeared. It was a D.C. investigator who recognized a mutilated tattoo found on Taylor’s hip, released by the Suffolk County Police Department, and was able to identify her. Her murder remains unsolved. 20 years old at time of death

Maureen Brainard-Barnes: 25 years old, of Norwich, Connecticut, last seen July 9, 2007 in Manhattan. Found on Ocean Parkway in December 2010.

Melissa Barthelemy: 24 years old, last seen in July 12, 2009 in the Bronx. Found on Ocean Parkway in December 2010.

Megan Waterman: 22 years old, from Maine. Last seen on June 10, 2010 leaving the Holiday Inn Express in Hauppauge alone early in the morning. Found on Ocean Parkway in December 2010.

Amber Lynn Costello: 27 years old, last seen in North Babylon in Sept. 2, 2010. Found on Ocean Parkway in December 2010.

DATE OF DISAPPEARANCE UNKNOWN:

John Doe: Asian male, clothed, late teens to early 20s. Evidence of trauma to the body. Undisclosed cause of death. Police say the man’s body has been here for years. Found April 2011.

Baby Doe: 18-24-month old girl wrapped in a blanket. No apparent injury or trauma to skeleton. Found 200 feet away from Jane Doe on Ocean Parkway, but no believed connection between the two. Found April 2011.

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