Long Island Serial Killer Investigation Resumes As Police Search For More Bodies

Authorities in New York have resumed the search for additional bodies in the Long Island serial killer investigation.

They plan to focus their efforts today along the Robert Moses Causeway. The location is east of Ocean Parkway, where the remains of 10 people have been recovered since late last year.

According to Suffolk County police, the latest search has been prompted by aerial imaging that was previously conducted by the FBI. In April, the bureau used planes and helicopters equipped with high-resolution cameras to photograph beach areas where the human remains have been found.

The ongoing search began in December, when the bodies of four women were found along a Long Island barrier beach during a search for Shannon Gilbert, a 24-year-old prostitute from New Jersey who has been missing since May. Police were looking for her there because she had called the police from the area. She has not been found.

All four of the bodies were found wrapped in burlap sacks. The victims were later identified as Megan Waterman, 22, of Long Island, N.Y.; Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, of Norwich, Conn.; Melissa Barthelemy, 24, of Buffalo, N.Y.; and Amber Lynn Costello, 27, of Wilmington, N.Y.

Police subsequently recovered the remains of six others. A female toddler, an Asian male and two unidentified victims were found, as well as the partially dismembered remains of two other women, one of whom has been identified as 20-year-old Jessica Taylor. The sexes and identities of the unidentified victims are not yet known. However, the medical examiner's office has determined that Gilbert's remains are not among them.

Investigators believe the first four victims are connected to the same serial killer. The others, they suspect, are the victims of more than one killer who coincidentally used the same dumping grounds.

While authorities have confirmed today’s search was prompted by the aerial imaging -- something Suffolk County Police previously said provided investigators with a detailed representation of the area -- investigators won’t comment on what, if any, clues they found in the images.

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