Four Bodies Found On Long Island Beach
Law enforcement officials in New York are on high alert after they found four bodies on a Long Island beach. The bodies were dumped along a quarter-mile stretch of beach dividing the Great South Bay from the Atlantic Ocean and investigators take into consideration the fact that they had all been killed by the same serial killer. The gruesome discovery was made while the police were looking for a missing prostitute on Long Island’s Fire Island; first they found a a set of skeletal remains on Oak Beach on Saturday, and two days later discovered another three bodies.
According to Richard Dormer, Suffolk County Police Commissioner, the bodies had been killed elsewhere and afterwards thrown from a vehicle on the beach. Forensic experts established that at least two victims were women, but none of the bodies had been indentified yet. The identification is difficult as the bodies are badly decomposed; it appears as they had been dumped on the beach over an 18-month period and it seems as they had been there for at least 30 days. DNA samples and dental records are now under examination by experts, but the identification process is expected to take several weeks.
Dormer expalined that the investigators were searching for Shonnan Gilbert, a 24-years-old girl last seen some ten months ago. Gilbert was known to have been working as a prostitute and on the night of her disappearance she was meeting a client on Fire Island, three miles west of the place the bodies were found. But the police say that Gilbert is not believed to be among the four bodies. Officials are asking anyone who has information on suspicious cars in the area over the last 12 months to call the county’s CrimeStoppers at (800) 244-8477.
This case is very much similar to a case from 2006, when four prostitutes had been killed and then dumped behind a strip of Atlantic City motels well known for drugs and prostitution. Each of the women were barefoot and lying face-down in a drainage ditch. The case had not yet been solved.
