Body Found In LI Matches Maine Prostitute

Police have confirmed the identity of one of the four bodies found on a Long Island beach last December as being 22-year-old Megan Waterman of Maine. Waterman disappeared in Suffolk County last June after coming to Long Island to meet a john she met on Craigslist. The identities of the other three bodies has yet to be determined, but medical evidence has helped police rule out Shannon Gilbert, a Jersey City prostitute who many initially speculated was one of the four. No cause of death has been released yet.

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By Garth Johnston in News on January 19, 2011 3:34 PM

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GothamExtremist

Nobody forced these girls into becoming hookers. Their choice. The lure of fast bucks.......

robingee

EXTREME!!!!!!

BottomlessChips

So sad. It's too bad we, as a society, treat these women as afterthoughts. These women deserved better; hopefully they can catch this guy soon.

virgilstarkwell

i don't mean to be insensitive but she's a prostitute? really? wow - slim pickings up in maine, i guess.

robingee

You didn't mean to be, but you were anyway.

Rocknrope

Maine? That's a long way to go for a john.

Len_Drexler

I'm going to speculate that she made more than one date if she traveled that distance. Or the john was paying her for an extended period of her time.