re: #145 iceweasel

Holy [deleted]. I hope all those involved in that heinous crime are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And then the families are sued for every last penny in compensation (though it doesn’t appear that there’s all that much to begin with) for what they put this young girl through.

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And if that isn’t cheery enough, we’ve got ourselves a serial killer on the loose on Long Island (and possibly connected to unsolved murders near Atlantic City, NJ). They found five bodies earlier this year near Gilgo Beach, and they have recovered another three bodies in that same area.

They’re still searching for another missing woman in that area. All were apparently prostitutes and several appeared to have used Craigslist to solicit their services.

The new remains are in addition to the remains of a victim found in the area last week, about 45 miles east of New York City. That victim has not been identified, and police have not positively connected those remains to the bodies of four prostitutes found nearby in December.

Police discovered the bodies while searching for 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert, who went missing in May in the area, and are investigating whether any of the newly-discovered remains are hers.

“The medical examiner is going to be looking at the possibility that Shannan Gilbert is one of the remains,” Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said. “We do have forensic and information available to the ME that would either prove it’s her or eliminate her.”

The search for Gilbert is expected to resume Tuesday. Gilbert, like the other women whose remains have been identified, reportedly advertised as a prostitute on Craigslist.

Authorities have identified the four bodies found in December as Amber Lynn Costello, 27, originally of Wilmington, N.C.; Megan Waterman, 22, of Scarborough, Maine; Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 28, of Norwich, Conn.; and Melissa Barthelemy, 24, of Buffalo, N.Y.

Police suspect a serial killer but so far have no suspects.