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July 9, 2007

Maureen Brainard-Barnes

Brainard-Barnes was born June 14, 1982, in New London, the daughter of Marie Ducharme of Groton and the late Robert Senecal.
Brainard-Barnes was last heard from on July 9, 2007 at 11:43 p.m . when she called a friend in Connecticut just minutes before midnight, telling her she was going to meet someone outside of the motel.


July 10, 2009


Melissa Barthelemy

Melissa Barthelemy was born on April 14th, 1985, in Buffalo New York. July 10, 2009 Melissa Barthelemy was last seen at her residence, 1149 Underhill Ave. in the Unionport section of the Bronx on.
The night that she was last seen, Barthelemy told a friend she was going to see a man and would be back in the morning. This friend was aware she was a sex worker, but Barthelemy offered no other details


May 1, 2010

Shannan Marie Gilbert

hannan Gilbert was 23 when she vanished. Her remains were found in December 2011 in another beach community just down the road. Authorities have said her death may have been accidental and not related to the other killings – a long dormant multiple homicide case known as the “Gilgo Four.”


September 2, 2010

Megan Waterman

Megan was born to Lorraine and Greg Waterman, they had another child Greg Jr. Megan Waterman was 22 years old when she was last seen on June 6, 2010 leaving her hotel Holiday Inn Express, located at 2050 Express Drive South in Hauppauge
She was reported missing to the Scarborough Police Department two days later by family members who said it was “unlike her not to call them to check on her then-3-year-old daughter,” the police reported. Ms. Waterman’s remains were found on Dec. 13, 2010, on the north side of Ocean Parkway, near Gilgo Beach.


September 2, 2010

Amber Lynn Overstreet Costello

Costello had moved to New York from Clearwater Florida and had completed a 28-day drug rehab, but had relapsed not long before her disappearance.
Costello was last seen leaving her residence on foot on September 2, 2010 to meet a client who was picking her up at her house. Costello did not have her cellphone with her at the time and she was never reported missing.

Possibly connected cases – Ongoing Investigation


  • 1982 – Tina Foglia

    Partial remains were found by state highway workers who were picking up trash in several plastic bags along an exit ramp from the Southern State Parkway to the Sagtikos State Parkway in the North Bay Shore of Suffolk County, NY. According to a senior investigator, the department of Transportation worker suspected the bags contained a body because of their shape, and as he got closer, he saw human hair. Learn More About Tina


  • 1991 Tiffany Dixon

    Tiffany Dixon disappeared on October 10 1991 while walking to school in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. She lived on Hart Street in Bushwick


  • 1991 – Sandra Acosta

    Cops discovered 13 body parts in a lot at 236 8th street in Park Slope. It was the dismembered partial remains of a woman whose hands, feet, head, arms, and legs were cut into two were found. Later on, identified as Sandra Acosta. She’d been strangled to death, drained of blood, and dismembered at the shoulders, elbows, thighs, knees, and ankles with a knife and chainsaw. Sandra Acosta’s torso was never found


  • 1992 – Becky Detres

    Two large garbage bags full of body parts in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Inside the two garbage bags were the dismembered remains of 27 year old Becky Detres. She’d been strangled and dismembered with a knife. Deters has grown up in Brooklyn and was short and thin with brown hair and eyes just like Sandra Acosta. Deters was known to use heroin and cocaine and reportedly worked as a sex worker, often around Classon Avenue and Fulton Street.


  • 1996 – Karen Vergata

    February 14, 1996: Karen Vergata last seen. Human remains were located in Davis Park on Fire Island. DNA later linked these remains to another set of remains on April 11, 2011, along Ocean Parkway, in Nassau County. These remains, known as Jane Doe Seven, were identified in July 2023 as Karen Vergata


  • 1997 – Peaches

    June 28, 1997 The dismembered torso of a young African-American female was found in Hempstead Lake State Park, New York. She had tattoo of a heart-shaped peach on her left breast and was given the name “Peaches.” Police estimate she had died less than 3 days before being discovered. Learn More About Peaches


  • 1997 – Baby Doe

    DNA analysis identified the victim “Peaches,” whose torso was found in 1997, as the mother of “Baby Doe.”3 It is believed that they were both killed at the same time. Both were found wearing similar jewelry Learn More About Peaches


  • 2000 – Valerie Mack

    Valerie Mack, who was 24 years old when she went missing with a last known address in Philadelphia, worked as an escort, using the alias Melissa Taylor.

    Remains of Manorville Jane Doe/Jane Doe number Six, later identified as Valerie Mack, are discovered in Manorville.


  • 1999 – Jacqueline Smith

    last seen in Brooklyn, New York on August 7, 1999. She had left her home at 9pm to visit friends and never came back. She was reported missing on August 12, 1999

    On June 20, 2000, an unidentified female torso was recovered near Beach 88th Street in Rockaway Beach, Queens, NY. The torso was found in plastic bags and wrapped with tape. No other body parts were recovered.


  • 2003 – Jessica Taylor

    Taylor came from a small town in upstate New York and was estranged from her family.

    July 26, 2003 A woman walking her dog came across Taylor’s butchered body on a pile of branches. Police said she had been dumped about a week before.

    Remains of Jessica Taylor are discovered in Manorville. Partial skeletal remains of Jessica Taylor are later located near Gilgo Beach on March 29, 2011


  • 2003 – Victoria Camara

    08/11/2003 at approximately 7:18 , Steven Webb, a truck driver, discovered the body of a female in the desert area just south of the haul road located approximately 1200 feet west of US 95, mile marker 52.


  • 2003 – Jodi Marie Brewer

    Jodi Marie Brewer disappeared from Las Vegas 20 years ago on Aug. 14, 2003, when she was 19.

    Jodi’s case reportedly became a cold case because of the slow progress of the probe.


  • 2007 – Body in Manorville

    A body was found south of the Long Island Expressway in Manorville. Hunters discovered the body in a wooded area several hundred yards from the expressway. Autopsy results were inconclusive (per the newspaper articles linked blow). The victim was Caucasian, 35 to 50 years old, about 5-foot-6 and had died up to four months earlier


  • 2007 – Cherry

    A suitcase containing the dismembered torso of an unidentified Hispanic or light-skinned African-American female washed up on a beach at Harbor Island Park, in the town of Mamaroneck.

    The victim had a tattoo of two cherries on her left breast, which was similar in appearance to the tattoo found on Peaches. Never identified, the victim is referred to as “Cherries” by investigators.

    “Cherries” was dismembered in a fashion similar to three other victims: Jessica Taylor, “Peaches”, and “Jane Doe No. 6”, meaning she may be linked to the other official victims.


  • 2007 – Brainard-Barnes

    Maureen Brainard-Barnes (25) was last seen in her room at the Super 8 Hotel in midtown Manhattan. She had left her home in Norwich, CT to meet a client she had booked through Craigslist. She was reported missing on July 14, 2007.Maureen’s body would be found on December 13, 2010, beside Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach. She had been strangled


  • 2009 – Melissa Barthelemy

    Melissa Barthelemy 24 was last seen outside her apartment on Underhill Avenue in the Bronx on July 12, 2009. She had arranged for a $1,000 date with a client the next night somewhere on Long Island. After her disappearance, her sister received several phone calls from a man using Melissa’s cell phone and claiming to be her killer.


  • 2010 – Shannan Gilbert

    Shannan Gilbert, a Craigslist escort, goes missing after leaving a client’s house in Oak Beach. The Suffolk County Police Department commences a search for Gilbert.

    on May 1, 2010. At 4:51 in the morning, 911 dispatchers received a panicked phone call from Gilbert who can be heard saying that there was someone “after her” and that “they” were trying to kill her. She was last seen a short time later banging on the front door of a nearby Oak Beach residence and screaming for help before running off into the night. Neighbors Gus Coletti and Barbara Brennan are among the last to see her


  • 2010 – Megan Waterman

    Police identify one victim as Megan Waterman, who was reported missing in June 2010.

    The identities of the three remaining victims were still unknown at this time


  • 2010 – Amber Lynn Costello

    Amber Lynn Costello (27) was last seen by her roommate leaving her home in North Babylon to meet a client. The client had called three or four times and offered Amber $1,500 for her services.

    Police discovered Amber’s body on December 13, 2010, beside Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach. She had been strangled.2


  • 2010 – Melissa Barthelemy

    During the search for Shannan Gilbert, the Suffolk County Police Department’s Canine Unit discovers human remains, later identified as Melissa Barthelemy.


  • 2011 – LE Released Names

    Three additional sets of remains are located and later identified

    Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Lynn Costello, Megan Waterman,

    These four victims are referred to as the “Gilgo Beach Four.”


  • 2011 – Jessica Taylor

    Partial skeletal remains are located east of the December 2010 discovery site along Ocean Parkway, matching the remains of Jessica Taylor, previously located on January 26, 2003.