With remarkable timing, mere hours after A&E aired a surprisingly well-done doc on the Long Island serial killer case, a source in the Suffolk County police tells Newsday that they have found some items that may be related to the missing prostitute Shannan Gilbert. Though her body has not been found, Gilbert's disappearance after seeing a john in Oak Beach back in May 2010 led to the discovery of ten bodies on Gilgo Beach last fall. Last week police said they were going to look for Gilbert one more time. more ›

Families of the four slain prostitutes whose remains were found on a desolate strip of Gilgo Beach in Long Island gathered at the site yesterday for a vigil to remember the victims and to urge authorities to find their killer. "We won't rest until we have justice," the Daily News quotes Lynn Barthelemy, mother of victim Melissa Berthelemy, "we have to catch this guy before another girl loses her life." more ›

This weekend the New York Post put out the theory that the bodies found on Gilgo State Beach are the work of a current or retired NYPD officer and already the department is shooting down the theory. This was the second time the tabloid has pushed this idea, citing unnamed sources, and this time the NYPD brass has come down strongly against the theory. "No NYPD officer has been identified as a suspect," NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said yesterday. Further, "I have no information that an individual who retired 20 years ago is a suspect either." more ›

While the police continue to sort out the links between the remains found on Gilgo Beach, the Post reports that the NYPD is treating two of their own as possible suspects in the strangling deaths of four prostitutes. One resigned in the 90s after an investigation found that he "spent time pursuing hookers" and paid "down-and-out-women for sex while he was supposed to be on patrol," while the other continues police work, but was stripped of his badge and gun and relegated to desk duty after "he allegedly assaulted a prostitute and got arrested during a sting operation." more ›

As the parents of a Stony Brook University student who went missing in 1998 wait to find out if their son is the unidentified John Doe found among the murdered prostitutes on Gilgo State Beach, some uninvolved criminologists are publicly doubting the current theory that the beach was a dumping ground for at least two killers. more ›

Police are now "convinced" that the four bodies found on Gilgo State Beach last December are the work of one killer, while the additional bodies found this year appear to be the work of a different killer, or killers, the Suffolk County DA said today [sub req'd]. "It is clear that the area in and around Gilgo Beach has been used to discard human remains for some period of time," Suffolk DA Thomas Spota said in a statement. "As distasteful and disturbing as that is, there is no evidence that all of these remains are the work of a single killer." more ›

As Long Island police continue searching for more remains on Jones Beach Island, professional and armchair serial-killer and criminology specialists are lining up to offer profiles of the suspected strangler. But considering the slim amount of information that has been released about the case, anyone with a working knowledge of Law & Order could probably have come to similar conclusions: more ›

The search for more victims of the purported Long Island Serial Killer moves into Nassau County and Jones Beach today. While investigators search for more unmarked graves, the media continues to dig into twists in the case (like: could the killer be a law enforcement official?). Over the weekend the Post, always happy to muckrake, went so far as to say that police have a suspect (which officials deny) and today Murdoch's paper keeps it up by reporting that one of the second-batch of bodies found doesn't appear to be that of a small-statured prostitute, like the first four bodies found, but instead could belong to a baby or child. more ›

Yesterday officials told the family of missing prostitute Shannan Gilbert it might take them between two weeks to three months to determine if she was the fifth body they had found near Gilgo State Beach. Erm, make that 24 hours. "The investigation into Shannan Gilbert's disappearance will continue," police said in a statement today, because the body they found Tuesday evening ain't her. more ›

Last December, while looking for the body of missing prostitute Shannan Gilbert, police discovered four bodies in burlap sacks on Gilgo State Beach. None of the bodies turned out to be Gilbert but they did all turn out to be missing hookers who frequented sites like Craigslist for their johns. Yesterday police returned to the beach to look for Gilbert again and sadly they found a fifth body about a mile east from the others. more ›

Police investigating the likely serial killer who dumped four bodies (the late Melissa Barthelemy, pictured at right) on Long Island's Gilgo State Beach have reportedly turned their attention to three johns who were in contact with more than one of the victims. Cops acknowledge the three men might just have been regulars, but they still want to talk to them. They are also combing over the women's apparently "voluminous" Craigslist correspondence in hopes of finding more clues. Meanwhile other working girls on the web are apparently beefing up their precautions. more ›

The bodies of four prostitutes found on Long Island's Gilgo State Beach have other working girls worried, but not enough to get them to stop advertising their wares online. Instead, they tell the News, they're being more careful meeting new johns and taking comfort in the fact that this latest Long Island serial killer seems to have a thing for girls of a Snooki-sized stature (all of the victims but one were under 5" feet). more ›

With all four of the bodies found on Gilgo State Beach identified as prostitutes news is starting to emerge of leads the police are pursuing. In particular, it seems that the sister of one of the victims was repeatedly called and taunted by a man using the dead woman's cellphone. Also, a psychic may have predicted where the bodies were found. more ›

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. more ›

The case of the possible LI serial killer continues to develop. After the remains of four bodies were found this weekend on a quarter-mile stretch of brush off the shoulder of Ocean Parkway near Babylon, the police undertook a massive search for more yesterday. No other remains were found, but the proximity of the first four, all of which were female, has the police seeing a connection—and calling in the FBI. Meanwhile, the papers are already calling this another Craigslist killer. more ›

MyFoxBoston has a creepy look inside the Craigslist Killer suspect's jail cell and shows photos of things like the knife Philip Markoff allegedly used to kill himself and the bag he allegedly used to choke himself. And there's also words "scrawled in blood on his jail cell wall. He wrote 'Megan, a nod to his ex-fiance Megan McAllister, and 'Pocket'. Philip Markoff, accused Craigslist Killer, commits suicide in jail. FOX25 has learned that 'Pocket' was a term that Markoff and McAllister used for each other in their relationship." more ›

Authorities say that the suspected Craigslist Killer Philip Markoff was found by paramedics in his jail cell with "with puncture wounds to his neck and both ankles." He also had a clear plastic bag from the jail's canteen over his head. more ›

Philip Markoff, the medical student accused of killing a NYC masseuse (hired via Craigslist) at a downtown Boston hotel last April, was found dead in his Boston jail cell this morning. According to the Boston Globe, "Officials do not know how he died, according to [Suffolk County Sheriff's spokesman Steven]Tompkins. Markoff, 24, was pronounced dead at 10:17 this morning. Tompkins said authorities are investigating." However, the Boston Herald's sources say he was alone and had suffocated. more ›

Accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff allegedly told family members to "forget about him" soon after his arrest last April for the murder of Julissa Brisman. And while they haven't quite abandoned him yet, his loved ones are not quite the cheerleaders they once were when he was first arrested. Yesterday a lawyer for Markoff's fiancee Megan McAllister, who initially was sticking with plans for their August wedding, revealed that she met with Markoff last month and told him that she is moving on, adding "it would be quite a long period of time, if ever, before she saw him again." The lawyer also refused to say if McAllister still believed Markoff was innocent, but that she found emerging details "disturbing" with now cops saying they found four women's panties stuffed in a sock and hidden between this mattress and spring box. A similar reticent tune came from Markoff's lawyer when asked if his family still believed that he was not guilty. He replied, "They're sticking by him." more ›

Philip Markoff, the medical student suspected of killing a NYC woman he met on Craigslist in a Boston hotel room, was indicted by a grand jury yesterday. According to the Boston Globe, prosecutors say in the April 14 killing of Julissa Brisman, as well as two other robberies of women he met via Craigslist, Markoff "allegedly used disposable cellphones and temporary e-mail addresses to make appointments, then used plastic ties and duct tape to bind his victims." Prosecutors also revealed that the 9mm gun used to kill Brisman was "purchased in a New Hampshire gun shop in February under [Andrew] Miller's name, though prosecutors found Markoff's fingerprint on paperwork filed with the purchase." Miller's license was found in Markoff's car when he was arrested; investigators do not think Miller was involved in the crimes. The 22-year-old will be arraigned today on charges including first-degree murder, armed robbery and armed kidnapping. more ›

After standing by their "erotic services" section in the weeks following the "Craigslist Murder" of Julissa Brisman (pictured), the site has finally caved to pressure and announced that it will shut down the section that is home to many ads for illegal prostitution. Last week the heat on craigslist was turned up when three state's attorney generals (including Connecticut's) asked them to eliminate the section that also made headlines recently for connecting George Weber to alleged teenage murder John Katehis. The site will start a new section for "adult services" at double the advertising fee ($10 now) where each ad will be reviewed by a craigslist employee. In a craigslist blog obtained by the LA Times, a rep for the site wrote, "Unsurprisingly, but completely contrary to some of the sensationalistic journalism we've seen these past few weeks, the record is clear that use of craigslist classifieds is associated with far lower rates of violent crime than print classifieds." Erotic services will close down when the current ads expire in seven days, making a soapy body slide with a local blond one of New York's last offerings. more ›

Accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff has now been charged in a third case involving a woman he found on the website and held up in a hotel room, this one in Rhode Island. Markoff is accused of tying up a stripper and robbing her at gunpoint in a similar fashion to the incident three days before in which he's accused of killing the Upper West Side's Julissa Brisman in Boston. Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch said, "We look for every measure of justice, particularly in a case like this where a life was taken." At a press conference announcing the charges, the Attorney General also had some unkind words for Craig Newmark, who has been publicly defending keeping his website's Erotic Services section open. Lynch said, "The guy from Craigslist was on TV. He said it was only one incident. I think it was totally irresponsible. It was a murder." more ›

Megan McAllister, the NJ woman engaged to suspected Craigslist killer Philip Markoff, is moving on with her life. She was spotted visiting him at his jail yesterday—without her engagement ring—and her lawyer said the two had a "candid, frank" talk and that "it's time to move on with other things in her life." McAllister, who met Markoff while they were students at SUNY Albany, had previously made public statements standing by Markoff and continued to, sort of: Her lawyer said this morning, "I think she feels that she’s supportive of him. The man that she knew and loved for four years is not the man that’s being portrayed in the media." Like how her fiancee allegedly looked for gays and transgender people, too? more ›