Careful walking dogs in Long Island, you never know when you might find human remains. At the end of last week another set of remains were found in Manorville, Long Island—the fourth set to be found in the same general area since 2000. Two of the previous bodies found have been linked to the corpses uncovered on Gilgo Beach over the last year. more ›

Authorities have confirmed that the remains found earlier in the week in a dense thicket in Oak Beach were those of Shannan Gilbert, a 24-year-old prostitute from New Jersey who was last seen in May of 2010. Long Island police are also asserting the theory that Gilbert's death is unrelated to the other remains found on Gilgo State Beach. "There's a small sense of peace in that she's no longer suffering," Gilbert's aunt told Newsday. Gilbert's body was spotted around a quarter mile from where her belongings were found. more ›

How many killers have been using the brush by Gilgo Beach as a dumping ground? That is the question! At first folks assumed it was just one killer using the area until last May, when the Suffolk County DA and Police Commissioner came out together to say the bodies were the work of at least least two killers. Then Commissioner Richard Dormer, who retires at the end of the month, came out in November to say that actually there is just one killer. And now DA Thomas Spota is publicly calling BS on that, testifying at a county legislative hearing that he "very, very much disagree with that theory." more ›

Yesterday's discovery of an 11th body on Gilgo State Beach in Long Island was well timed. It came exactly a year after the first corpses of sex workers were found on the beach, and also just one day before our City Council started hearings to discuss the drivers who shuttle (willing and unwilling) prostitutes around. It seems especially fitting since Shannan Gilbert, the New Jersey prostitute whose body may have been found yesterday, certainly spent a lot of time with those drivers. more ›

Though Suffolk County police have still not found the body of Shannan Gilbert, the Jersey City prostitue whose disappearance in May 2010 eventually led to the discovery of a Long Island serial killer's dumping ground, they have finally made some progress in her case. Searching the area around Gilgo Beach the last two-and-a-half days police say they've recovered a pocketbook that may be Gilbert's, along with a pair of jeans, shoes and a cellphone. Other unidentified items were also found, though not Gilbert herself. more ›

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 ›

Suffolk County police don't think that Shannan Gilbert—whose disappearance led to the discovery of ten bodies on Gilgo State Beach last year—was the victim of the Long Island serial killer. But that doesn't mean her body might still be on the beach (or in its brush), and they are now going to reopen the search for her. more ›

It has been six months since police first started discovering bodies of murdered sex workers on Gilgo State Beach on Long Island and yet police have still not found the killer (or killers). And so the Suffolk County police have decided to up their cash reward for any information in the case. 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 ›

It has been nearly six months since police began uncovering bodies of dead prostitutes on Long Island's Gilgo State Beach and with the police seemingly no closer to catching the killer (or killers) working girls in the area are understandably still taking precautions. Johns of New York, please remember to ask your sex workers for good references—they may come in handy down the road! 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 ›

Having found more than ten bodies along Gilgo and Jones Beaches, many of whom have been identified as prostitutes, police are still trying to get to the bottom of the possible Long Island Serial Killer. Police have talked to Joel Rifkin, utilized spy planes, and extended their investigation from Long Island to Atlantic City. Now, there's been a strange new development in the case regarding one of the identified women: it seems that members of a Long Island internet sex forum discussed "revenge" plans against her. more ›

"I have nothing to do with those bodies," convicted serial killer Joel Rifkin matter-of-factly told Newsday [sub. req'd], regarding rumors that the skull and bones found on Monday could be his victims (four of the 17 women he has admitted to killing were never recovered). His denial from prison came as new details emerged regarding the suspected serial killer's phone calls to one of his victim's younger sister and police continue to search the land, air and sea near Gilgo State Beach for more clues. more ›

Suffolk police have nearly completed their latest search of the Gilgo State beach area where eight bodies have been found since December. As of now it appears that the three additional corpses uncovered earlier this week are all that they will find this round, but the search is far from over. In fact it appears investigators are again looking for a link between the dead bodies found on Long Island and the four dead prostitutes that were found in Atlantic City in 2006. 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 ›

The family of one of the LI serial killer's victims revealed yesterday that someone, very possibly the prostitute's killer, called and taunted the little sister of the late Melissa Barthelemy not three times, as previously reported, but six times. During the calls, the exact contents of which are not being released, the voice apparently taunted the girl with crude comments like "Do you know what your sister is doing? She's a whore." The last call was received in August. Unfortunately police were only able to trace the calls as far as midtown Manhattan. more ›