Four Female Bodies Dumped; FBI, Suffolk County Look For Clues

Bodies not linked to missing prostitute
Published: Dec. 15, 2010 at 2:46 PM NEW YORK, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Four bodies found dumped on a Long Island beach are all women, but a missing Prostitute does not seem to be among them, police said Wednesday. Suffolk County, N.Y., homicide detectives are bringing in the FBI, the New York Daily News reported. A forensic anthropologist from the New York City Medical Examiner helped Suffolk authorities establish the gender of the skeletal remains, but the Victims have yet to be identified. Police wer...

Notorious Serial Killer Joel Rifkin Not Impressed With Whoever Did the Long Island Beach Murders
Joel Rifkin, the Long Islander believed to be responsible for the Murders of seventeen New York Prostitutes over a four-year span in the late eighties and early nineties, tells the Daily News from Prison that whoever is responsible for the four bodies recently discovered on a Long Island beach — also speculated to be Prostitutes — is pretty bush league. With the air of a Veteran schooling an amateur, Rifkin said the sicko being hunted by cops and the FBI should never have left all t...

Bodies dumped on Long Island beach all women, cops say as they hunt possible serial killer
Cops revealed Wednesday that the four bodies dumped on a Long Island beach by a suspected Serial Killer were all women. The development comes as Suffolk County homicide detectives held a sitdown with FBI agents to discuss the case. "The FBI has offered all available resources in support of our investigation," Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. A forensic anthropologist from the New York City Medical Examiner helped Suffolk authorities est...

Beach Corpses All Women, Not Necessarily Prostitutes
Photo: Wikipedia Forensics experts have determined that the four badly decomposed corpses found in a quarter-mile stretch of beach on Long Island are all women, and while they don't believe that missing Prostitute Shannon Gilbert is one of them, they are looking into whether this is tied to the killing of four prostitutes in Atlantic City four years ago. Suffolk County's Police Commissioner thinks the bodies may be the work of a Serial Killer, and the FBI has joined the investigation. [NYP, NY...

Hunt Is On for Serial Killer in Long Island Deaths
The theory that the deaths of four people whose bodies were found in recent days on a Long Island beach are Victims of a Serial Killer gained momentum on Wednesday when the authorities determined that all of them were women. Lorraine Ela, in South Portland, Me., with a photo of her daughter, Megan Waterman, who was last seen on June 6 leaving a hotel on Long Island. The arduous work to find that killer continues. The authorities are looking for links in the circumstances surrounding the deaths...

Atlantic City and LI detectives busy with clues in serial killer murders
Tying together the eight Murders between Atlantic City and Long Island may prove more than difficult for homicide detectives than originally thought. One clue may hold the key to nailing down a supposed Serial Killer with a hunting ground in two or more states. Detectives are looking into the craigslist angle of the women who were murdered in New York. If that information can be tied to gambling records, including comps and casino credit, they may be able to establish the critical...

Seeking clues in beach slayings, cops swarm Long Island house where hooker Shannon Gilbert last seen
Investigators swarmed a Long Island home where a missing New Jersey hooker was last seen - three miles from where the bodies of four women have been found. Unmarked law-enforcement cars rolled up to the home in the gated Oak Beach Island Association on Wednesday afternoon. It was unclear if they went inside. The missing Prostitute, Shannon Gilbert, 24, showed up at the home in May and was seen fleeing in a panic. Neighbor Gustav Coletti, 75, said Gilbert was bug-eyed high when she pounded on h...

Search to resume after 4 bodies found at NY beach
BABYLON, N.Y. — Police expect to resume their search of a remote Long Island beach after four people were found dead during the hunt for a missing New Jersey woman. Investigators were expected to return to Oak Beach later Tuesday. Suffolk County police say three of the badly decomposed bodies were found there Monday, alongside Ocean Parkway. That followed the discovery of another person’s skeletal remains on Saturday. At the time, police were following up on a Missing Person report....

FBI Joins NY Beach Serial Killer Probe
(New York Post) - Police identified the four bodies found along a secluded stretch of beach on New York’s Long Island as women and have called in the FBI to help in the investigation that a Serial Killer may have been responsible for their grisly deaths, authorities said Wednesday. Cops continued to look for clues in regards to Prostitute Shannon Gilbert when they discovered the remains over the weekend. Police, however, said an early analysis shows Gilbert, who vanished in May, may not be...

Police search NY home in beach-corpses probe
OAK BEACH, N.Y. — Police investigating the discovery of four bodies in a remote New York beach area have removed a sport utility vehicle from a Long Island home where a missing New Jersey woman was last seen. The homeowner told Newsday this week that he had hired Shannon Gilbert for a "date" in May. Authorities say she was working as a Prostitute. Police are investigating whether Gilbert is one of the bodies discovered about three miles away. They were on a secluded section of Ocean Parkw...

Police search NY home in beach-corpses probe
SMITHTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Police on Thursday scoured a 10-mile stretch of a beach access road where four bodies were discovered within the past week, seeking clues or additional corpses still hidden in the sand. Ten State Police dogs trained to locate bodies were brought in to aid the search. “There are no suspects at this time. It’s just that we want to cover all of the areas that may be of interest,” Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said a morning news bri...

Craigslist escort from Maine may be among Long Island victims
BABYLON, N.Y. — The mother of a missing Maine woman last seen working as an escort in New York submitted a DNA sample Wednesday to authorities trying to determine the identities of four women whose bodies were found dumped on a deserted beach highway on Long Island. Meanwhile, the FBI offered its assistance with the investigation by Suffolk County authorities, who suspect they may be dealing with a serial killer. Authorities obtained the DNA sample from Lorraine Ela and will ship it to New...

Four Bodies Found On LI Beach, Raising Serial Killer Worries
Authorities search Oak Beach in Long Island (AP) Since this past weekend, Suffolk County Police have found the decomposing remains of four people along the beach in Babylon. Police Commissioner Richard Dormer was asked if a Serial Killer could have dumped the bodies and he said, "We're looking at that - that we could have a serial killer... I don't think it's a coincidence that four bodies ended up in this area." According to Newsday, the bodies "were dumped from a vehicle at different times, ...

NY police huddle with FBI about 4 beach bodies
BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — The FBI is offering its resources to assist New York homicide investigators chasing a possible Serial Killer after four women’s bodies were found dumped alongside a remote beach highway. Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said in a brief statement that investigators from his department met with officials from the FBI’s New York office on Wednesday. The agents offered any assistance they could provide, but an FBI spokesman said it was not imme...

FBI Raids House in Serial Killer Probe
(The New York Post) - Police and FBI agents swarmed an oceanfront home where a missing Prostitute was last seen alive as they ramped up their investigation of four corpses mysteriously dumped on a secluded nearby beach on New York’s Long Island, the New York Post reported Thursday. The renewed interest in the disappearance of Jersey City, NJ, Call Girl Shannan Gilbert came as Suffolk County police confirmed that all the bodies, found Saturday and Monday, were those of women. The Victims we...

Serial-slay house raid
Long Island police and FBI agents yesterday swarmed an oceanfront home where a missing Prostitute was last seen alive as they ramped up their investigation of four corpses mysteriously dumped on a nearby secluded beach. The renewed interest in the disappearance of Jersey City Call Girl Shannan Gilbert came as Suffolk County police confirmed that all the bodies, found Saturday and Monday, were those of women. The Victims were likely murdered by a Serial Killer, which is why the FBI was called...

FBI Called In As Authorities Hunt Possible New York Serial Killer
Dec. 14: New York police search brush by the side of the road near Babylon, N.Y., in the same area where authorities discovered the bodies of four women (AP). Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said Tuesday that a Serial Killer may be responsible for the alleged murders of four people, whose badly decomposing remains were found in the same area where a Prostitute was reported missing. A Law Enforcement official confirmed to FoxNews.com on Wednesday that all four Victims are women...

4 bodies found on N.Y. beach
Police said on Tuesday they may be hunting for a Serial Killer after the remains of four bodies were discovered on a remote New York beach. The bodies, which were unidentified, were found spread along a quarter-mile stretch of beach on Long Island about 40 miles east of New York City, Police said. Police were looking at the possibility of a serial killer, said Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer. "We are looking at that angle. It certainly lends itself to that conclusion.... Four b...

4 Bodies Found Along a Suffolk Road
The Police in Suffolk County have discovered four bodies over the past three days along Ocean Parkway in Oak Beach. The remains were found between Cedar Beach and Gilgo Beach on the north end of Jones Beach Island. The first body, described in a statement as skeletal remains, was found on Saturday afternoon by a Police Officer from the canine unit. The officer was conducting a training exercise near where a person had been reported missing earlier this year. The Police said they had been sea...

Craigslist murder rampage
He's the Long Island craigslist Killer -- a serial murderer who lures hookers off the Web site, slays them and then dumps their bodies in his own private graveyard along a desolate beach road. Suffolk County Police revealed today that all the bodies found on the beach were female. "All of the Victims were female and we are meeting with the FBI today," police said. No new search has begun today and the Suffolk County Police Mobile Command Unit pulled out of the site just after 6 p.m. yesterda...

FBI and Police raid home of Long Island man in serial murder investigation
A Long Island man’s home has been raided by the FBI and local police in the aftermath of four bodies being found on Gilgo Beach, N.Y. He maintains he is innocent of any crime. The Murders may be linked to four Murders in Atlantic City. Joseph A. Brewer, 46, of 8 The Fairway, Oak Island, N.Y. was the last man to see Shannon Gilbert alive on May 1, 2010. He contacted her through craigslists to attend a party at his home that night. Brewer said he voluntarily took a Lie Detector test at ...

LI Cops Search For More Bodies, Another Killer Weighs In
Police search for more bodies earlier in the week (AP). With all four of the bodies found on the same quarter-mile stretch off the Ocean Parkway identified as women—if not actually identified—Suffolk County police now seem to be ramping up their hunt for a Serial Killer. Yesterday they Joel Rifkin, serial killer of 17 prostitutes, dismissive of sloppy tactics of L.I. maniac
DANNEMORA, N.Y. - Long Island Serial Killer Joel Rifkin says he's not impressed by the fiendish handiwork of a murderer who dumped the bodies of four women near Oak Beach. With the air of a Veteran schooling an amateur, Rifkin said the sicko being hunted by cops and the FBI should never have left all the corpses in one place. "I dumped them hundreds of miles apart," Rifkin proudly told the Daily News Wednesday in a 70-minute interview at the upstate Prison where he will spend the rest of his l...

Atlantic City Murders Link to NY Bodies Probed
NEW YORK (CBS/WCBS/AP) Prosecutors in Atlantic City said they're in contact with investigators in New York to see if there might be some connection to a series of unsolved Prostitute murders that occurred there four years ago with the four women whose bodies were found dumped on a deserted beach highway on Long Island. Meanwhile, the FBI offered its assistance with the investigation by Suffolk County authorities, who suspect they may be dealing with a Serial Killer. Police in New Jersey are look...

Victims found on LI beach all identified as women; FBI has joined serial killer probe
Police have identified the four bodies found along a secluded stretch of Long Island beach as women and have called in the FBI to help in the investigation that a Serial Killer may have been responsible for their grisly deaths, authorities said today. Cops continued to look for clues in regards to Prostitute Shannon Gilbert when they discovered the remains over the weekend. Police, however, said an early analysis shows Gilbert, who vanished in May, may not be one of the Victims, although inv...