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How Police First Discovered The Long Island Serial Killer’s Victims Yet the identity of the Long Island Serial Killer has remained mysterious for more than two decades. Every so often, Suffolk County police release new evidence in the hope of identifying more of the victims. To this day, four victims remain unidentified, and police believe there could be as many as six more victims linked to the Gilgo Beach murders.īut even after years of investigation and countless leads, the case repeatedly goes cold. By the end of 2011, they’d found six more sets of human remains near the same stretch of Ocean Parkway along Gilgo Beach.
Police immediately launched an extensive investigation into the so-called Gilgo Four.
But as the dog tried to pick up Gilbert’s scent, it led Mallia to something much worse - the remains of four bodies, all within 500 feet of each other. That December, Suffolk County officer John Mallia and his specialized cadaver dog were searching for Shannan Gilbert, a local woman who had gone missing seven months earlier. But it wouldn’t be until 2010 that a new discovery led them to believe that all the victims could be the work of a single murderer dubbed the Long Island Serial Killer. And for the next decade, they kept finding more. Although their pathologist believed the findings were consistent with homicide, the SCPD and the FBI behavioral unit believe it was a tragic accident, but were open to any new information.Gilgo Case This composite shows the six identified victims linked to the Long Island Serial Killer case along with police sketches of two Gilgo Beach murder victims whose identities have not been confirmed.īeginning in 1996, police started discovering human remains near Gilgo Beach on Long Island’s South Shore. Investigators also spoke about the private autopsy done by the Gilbert family. Instead, based on her 911 call, they theorized she might have been high on drugs and ran into the marsh, where she died of hypothermia or possible drowning. Investigators back then said they didn't think Shannan was murdered. A week later, Shannan's skeletal remains were found about a quarter mile from her belongings. In December 2011, more than 18 months after she disappeared, several of Shannan's belongings - including her purse, shoes and cellphone - were found in the marsh eight miles from Gilgo Beach. Inside the investigation to catch a serial killer 24 photos Six more sets of remains were found along Ocean Parkway the following spring. Known as the Gilgo Four, they were later identified as Maureen Brainard-Barnes, abducted in 2007 Melissa Barthelemy in 2009 and Megan Waterman and Amber Costello, who went missing in 2010. Investigators were searching for Shannan when they found other remains on Gilgo Beach in December 2010: women in their 20s who had been wrapped in burlap sacks. Her entire call lasted more than 21 minutes, but portions of the call had nothing but silence.īy the time the police responded to her call an hour later, the 25-year-old woman had disappeared. "There's somebody after me," she is heard repeating to the operator. Gilbert, a sex worker who had gone to a client's house in the gated community of Oak Beach, was leaving when she called 911. The Hunt for the Long Island Serial Killer 41:30
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