Laenne claimed he violently yanked her while performing oral sex on him, to the point of her crying, he was unable to orgasm, threw money at her, and left.
#Long island killer victims serial#
The 3 other victims remain unidentified.Īn escort named Laenne stated she had performed services on a man named James Burke, a Suffolk county police chief, and claimed he had ties to the Long Island Serial Killer. On May 28th, 2020 police identified Valerie Mack, 24, of Philadelphia as the last identified victim of the Long Island Serial Killer.Jessica Taylor was 20 when she vanished in July 2003.Amber Lynn Costello, 27, went missing on September 2nd, 2010 after going with a stranger in pursuit of her services.Suspected victims of the Long Island Serial Killer Megan Waterman, 22, disappeared on June 6th, 2010, while staying at a hotel just 15 miles north of where she was discovered.Melissa Barthelemy was living in the Bronx of New York making a living as an escort, just 24 when she went missing on July 10th, 2009.Maureen Brainard-Barnes, a 25-year-old escort of Norwich Connecticut, vanished on July 9th, 2007, before telling a friend she planned “to spend a day in New York City”.The victims The identified victims confirmed to have suffered at the hands of the Long Island Serial Killer are: The Long Island Serial Killer has yet to be apprehended. Shannan’s mother Mari never stopped fighting for justice, challenging Suffolk County Police’s findings that Shannan died of accidental drowning and that her death was not connected to the other remains found on Long Island.[link: “In 2011, The Suffolk County Police Department announced the unveiling of 10 bodies during the initial search for Shannan Gilbert, along the south shore of Long Beach, New York. Police ruled out the client Shannan saw on the night she went missing - as a suspect. “There is no evidence whatsoever that Shannan Gilbert died a natural death,” said family attorney John Ray in 2016. However, an autopsy proved inconclusive and a second independent autopsy found she received injuries “consistent with homicidal strangulation”.
Police announced that they believed her death was down to accidental drowning and the official cause listed as “undetermined”. Shannan Gilbert’s body was eventually discovered on Decemless than a mile from where was last seen, in a marsh not far from Oak Beach. The first four were covered in burlap, the last four were not, but that doesn't mean they're different people.” What happened to Shannan Gilbert? That night she reportedly went to meet a stranger who agreed to pay her $1,500 for her services and called several times. The mother of a young girl, Megan told her 20-year-old boyfriend the previous day that she was going out and would call him later.Īmber Lynn Costello: Amber was 27 and from North Babylon, New York when she disappeared on September 2 2010, a week before her 28th birthday. Megan Waterman: Megan was 22 when she vanished on June 6 2010. Melissa Barthélemy: The 24-year-old from Erie County, New York, went missing on July 10 2009.
Maureen Brainard-Barnes: Maureen, from Norwich in Connecticut, was last seen on Jwhen she left for New York. The remains of the four bodies discovered in December 2010 all belonged to women.Īll four were identified as prostitutes who had advertised on Craigslist leading police to believe a serial killer was behind their deaths. The search for Shannan Gilbert had inadvertently turned up a number of bodies and human remains belonging to a total of 10 people.
None of the bodies found belonged to Shannan Gilbert. Those suspicions were strengthened between late March and early April 2011 when four more bodies were found further along Ocean Parkway.Ī set of partial human remains and separate skull were also uncovered in neighbouring Nassau County while two human teeth were discovered near the location of the skull on April 22 2011. "Four bodies found in the same location pretty much speaks for itself,” said Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer at the time.
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