News: Investigating A Serial Killer
(Long Island, N.Y.) Authorities investigating the Gilgo Beach and Jones Beach discoveries have received an estimated six hundred tips with information about a possible serial killer. All tips are processed by the homicide task force, and police urge the public to call Crime Stoppers. All information is considered valuable in the case, no matter the significance.
Today’s search will include a team of four divers from the Marine Bureau searching for evidence submerged in water fifty yards from shore. Reports have stated that officials on the case have announced they will be using sophisticated technology in aircrafts to help aid in the investigation. This morning’s weather has limited investigator’s ground search.
In the meantime, workers on the case have been attempting to profile the man they believe is responsible for killing the four women found in December who have since been identified. Part of the reason the killer may have targeted young prostitutes is because crimes against women of that trade are less likely to be reported. One of the women, who was the last of the four to disappear, was never reported missing.
Authorities working on the case have stated that the killer is bound to make a mistake. Since the disappearance of one of the women, the killer has called the victim’s sister several times using a cell phone in the Madison Square Garden and Times Square area of New York City. Sources have stated that the calls were angry and taunting, making it appear that the killer is confident in his ability to evade police.
Another expert on the case has stated that the killer’s pleasure comes from outsmarting the detectives on the case rather than from the killings. Similar to a drug-induced high, the killer wouldn’t be able to recapture the pleasure once received from the first time killing. If a serial killer is responsible for the killings, he will be the third to target prostitutes in the Long Island area within the past two decades.
The difference among the first set of remains found in December and the remains found in recent weeks have led most officials on the case to consider the possibility of multiple killers. One theory on the case, supporting a single killer, has reasoned that the more recently discovered remains predate the first. Since the recent remains were found more inland in thicker brush, it may suggest that the killer was more confident in his ability to evade police when he dumped the first set closer to Ocean Parkway. Also, an older killer may have been less physically able to travel inland with a body.
The FBI has leant its Behavior Analysis Unit to help target possible suspects in the case. Reports have stated that members of the unit claim the killer is “charming” and able to go about his daily life unnoticed. Supporting this theory, sources have stated that the killer would have had a lot of practice at concealing any psychopathic tendencies and would be skilled at deception. The killer would view his victims as targets, and attempt to lure them into feeling comfortable.
An alternate depiction of the killer is that he is clumsy for leaving the bodies unburied, and may be daring police and authorities to catch him. Some reports have claimed that the killer was lucky that the bodies weren’t found sooner, while other reports claim that the remote, difficult terrain of the dumping grounds suggests that he is not trying to get caught.
