Authorities publicly identified another victim Friday in the Gilgo Beach killings, naming a 34-year-old woman as one of the 11 victims whose remains were found on Long Island in 2010 and 2011.
Friday’s announcement came a few weeks after Suffolk County authorities charged Rex A. Heuermann, a 59-year-old Long Island architect, with the murders of three of the 11 victims.
A woman’s legs and feet were found on Fire Island on April 20, 1996. Fifteen years later, authorities found a skull on a Long Island beach and linked it to the Fire Island remains via DNA analysis, Tierney said. Before Vergata was identified as the victim, the dead woman had been referred to as “Fire Island Jane Doe,” he said.
It was another step in the long-running investigation of the killings, a probe that took 13 years beforeHe was charged in the killings of Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Megan Waterman, 22; and Amber Lynn Costello, 27. Their remains were found with those of another woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25. Authorities have not made any arrestsThose four women’s remains were found when police were searching for a fifth missing woman, 23-year-old Shannan Gilbert.
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