Long Island serial killer
Serial Killers Suspects

2023 – Rex Heuermann
Rex Heuermann is currently detained as of July 19, 2023, and is being investigated for his involvement in the Gilgo Beach serial killings. He is suspected by many to be the Long Island Serial Killer

March 17, 2011
John Bittrolff, a murderer and suspected serial killer who was previously investigated in connection to the Gilgo Beach serial killings
A carpenter was recently sentenced to prison for murdering two prostitutes, may be responsible for one or more of the unsolved deaths connected to the bodies discovered on Gilgo Beach in Long Island, New York, a prosecutor said

1989 and 1993 – Joel Rifkin
Joel Rifkin (born 1959), an American serial killer sentenced for the murders of nine women between 1989 and 1993

1991 and 1996 – Robert Shulman
Robert Shulman, a serial killer who murdered five women between 1991 and 1996

1987 – Richard Angelo
Richard Angelo, a serial killer who murdered at least four patients in 1987

Richard Cottingham
Richard Cottingham, a serial killer who murdered at least 18 women, four on Long Island

May 10, 2011
Authorities say there could be multiple killers in the Long Island murders after no evidence was found to link the human remains to one serial killer. Elaine Quijano reports on the latest of the new evidence.

September 17, 2011
Search For A Serial Killer. A documentary produced by News 12 Long Island. Producers: Lauren Sivan and Debi Gade. Photography by Brian Jingeleksi. Edited by Glenn Garthwaite.

September 17, 2011
A documentary produced by News 12 Long Island. Producers: Lauren Sivan and Debi Gade. Photography by Brian Jingeleksi. Edited by Glenn Garthwaite.

May 10, 2011
Valerie Mack was 24 years old when she abruptly disappeared from Edwin and JoAnn Mack’s lives around October 2000.
Her adoptive parents and other relatives futilely searched for her for years, fearing something terrible had happened to the young mother they said had been trying to turn her life around.
In February 2020, their worst fears became a reality: Suffolk County detectives called to tell them Valerie was dead and had been identified as a victim in the Gilgo Beach serial killings.

April 20, 2011
Nassau County detectives are hoping that a chest tattoo of a peach will help them identify the headless naked torso of a woman found in a state park.
Police think the tattoo artist or someone close to the mutilation victim will recognize the design and step forward to identify the woman, whose partial remains were found in Hempstead Lake State Park by a hiker on Saturday.
The woman’s head, arms and her legs below her knees had been hacked off and have not been recovered.

February 17, 2012
Man Walking his dog discovered human remains. Law Enforcement belives the remains were there for at least five years its the same area of Manorville where two other sets of remains were found.
Suffolk County Police Department, the victim died of “homicidal violence” and the skeletal remains found wrapped in a bed sheet, and in a plastic garbage bag body was bound with duct tape. Later determined it was a male.

December 11, 2011
OAK BEACH, N.Y. — It’s the largest murder investi gation ever on New York’s Long Island – 10 people slain and strewn along a remote beach highway over 15 years, possibly all victims of the same serial killer. But it’s not the first time the New York suburbs have been in the national spotlight for its homicides.
April 24, 2011
A man who goes through daily life un-noticed. Possibly even married and with children. With social skills sufficient to get these Craigslist escorts to meet him with their guard down. A man who gets some sick thrill from
his murderous spree, making taunting phone calls to a victim’s family from locations carefully chosen for their difficulty to trace.
April 17, 2011
Talk on longislanderotic.com shows members were outraged when one of their cronies claimed he had paid Amber Lynn Costello $200 for sex, only to be robbed by men who barged into her West Babylon home. “Tell her we are all coming over there with baseball bats,” threatened one member, a self-declared ex-con known as “Morrie.”