Cops investigate possible link between Long Island serial killer and New Jersey murders

Cops investigate possible link between Long Island serial killer and New Jersey murders

2011-04-08 10:26:22 GMT+7 (ICT)

SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) -- Authorities are now investigating whether the discovery of four dead prostitutes in New Jersey in 2006 is possibly related to the Long Island serial killer, who is believed to have killed up to 8 prostitutes since 2007 and dumped their bodies along a remote beach in New York.

The first victims of the Long Island serial killer were found in mid-December when police found the skeletal remains of a woman along a road in Babylon, a town in Suffolk County on Long Island. Two days later, three more bodies were found in the same area as police were investigating the first remains.

In the past two weeks, a total of four more bodies have been found in the same area, raising the number of suspected victims attributed to the unidentified serial killer to 8. All of the victims were identified as missing prostitutes.

Authorities have said the murders are believed to be the work of a serial killer who used the road near the beach to dump his victims, and one of victims may have been at the location since July 2007. The others went missing more recently.

But authorities are now investigating information that suggests a possible link between the Long Island murders and the murders of four prostitutes in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 2006. "Our homicide detectives are in touch with the police investigating the Atlantic City murders," a Suffolk County police spokesman told the New York Post.

Meanwhile, police are continuing their searches of the remote beaches in Suffolk County to see if there are more bodies. They fear missing 24-year-old prostitute Shannan Gilbert could be another victim who has not been found yet.

The New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is assisting in the investigation.

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