![]() ![]() ![]() In late March and early April of 2011, an additional four bodies were found one about a mile east of where the first four were located, and three more on the north side of the highway several miles further down. Such a gruesome string of crimes was essentially unheard of on Long Island as the authorities continued and widened the scope of their search, their grim discoveries continued to increase. Gilgo Beach remains to be a beautiful, but it is impossible to forget the horrors that occurred here. The remains of each woman were found stuffed into an individual, rotting burlap sacks, and autopsies later revealed all the women had died of strangulation. All four women were revealed to have been escorts and/or prostitutes who had advertised their services on the classified advertisements website Craigslist. ![]() The initial four bodies were identified in January 2010: Megan Waterman, 22, of South Portland, Maine, who had gone missing on JMaureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, of Norwich, Connecticut, last seen on JMelissa Barthelemy, 24, of Erie County, New York, missing since Jand Amber Lynn Costello, 27, of North Babylon, New York, who had disappeared on September 2, 2010. It was at that time that Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer was quoted by news media as saying the unfathomable: “Four bodies found in the same location pretty much speaks for itself. Two days later the search uncovered three more bodies – all female – that had been unceremoniously dumped amongst the dunes and thick vegetation lining the roadway. The remains were not Gilbert’s however, the horrifying discovery led to a police search of the Ocean Parkway between the towns of Gilgo Beach and Oak Beach in Suffolk County and the area of Jones Beach State Park in Nassau County. Human remains were found off of Ocean Parkway. While conducting that search in the dunes of Ocean Parkway on the South Shore of Long Island – on their own time – Mallia and Blue came across something that sparked horror and outrage nationwide: the skeletal remains of a woman stuffed into a worn burlap sack. In December of 2010, Suffolk County Police Department officer John Mallia and his dog, a German shepherd named Blue, were out conducting a search for Shannan Gilbert, a 24-year-old prostitute from Jersey City who had been missing since May 1 after visiting a client in Oak Beach she had met through Craigslist. ![]() We speak of none other than the infamous Long Island Serial Killer – also known as the Gilgo Beach Killer or the Craigslist Ripper – an unidentified individual allegedly responsible for the murder of between 10 and 17 women – and one man – and the subsequent dumping of their bodies along the Ocean Parkway over a period of nearly 20 years. Gilgo Beach is a heavily trafficked area, the remains could have been left by anyone at any time.Īmongst the beautiful beach dunes and picturesque homes lining Long Island’s South Shore lay a deep, dark, and tragic underbelly within this suburban utopia lay the most awful of secrets that have finally been laid bare for all the world to see, save the identity of the culprit who committed the crimes. ![]()
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