News: Partially Identified Remains at Gilgo
(Long Island, N.Y.) The remains of an unidentified female, Asian male, and eighteen-to-twenty-four-month-old female child were among the four partially identified by police on Monday. The unidentified woman’s remains were also discovered in Manorville in 2000 near the remains of twenty-year-old Jessica Taylor. Taylor was the only one of the four to be given a name.
The unidentified woman, called “Jane Doe No. 6,” was discovered on April 4th. The remains of the Asian male, called “John Doe No. 8,” were also found that day along with the remains of the toddler. Though all were discovered within a short distance, none are believed to have been related.
Unlike the others, the toddler’s death has not been ruled a homicide, and police and authorities on the case believe that no attempt was made to conceal her remains. The remains of the unidentified woman were believed to be hidden and placed strategically on the beach to conceal her death. Her dismembered torso was found in a secluded wooded area in Manorville.
The remains of the Asian male are believed to have come from a man in his late teens or early twenties. He was found clothed, and police and authorities on the case believe he suffered a violent death. Unlike the others, no indication was made as to how long he had been there.
While Taylor’s torso was found by a woman walking her dog, the remains of Jane Doe No. 6 were discovered by hunters in the woods on the morning of November 19th, 2000. The remains are believed to have belonged to a woman between thirty and forty years of age. She is believed to have been between four-feet-and-ten-inches and five-feet-and-four-inches tall.
Police and authorities on the case estimated that she had been there since September. Her right lower leg was missing, which has led investigators to believe that she could have had a tattoo or another kind of identification marker on her leg or ankle. Taylor’s tattoo was mutilated and distorted by what authorities believe was a razor blade.
Many believe that the remains of the Asian male could belong to missing college student Yim Yeung Tsui. Tsui resided in New Hyde Park and is the only Asian male to have gone missing on Long Island and listed in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. He was last seen in New Hyde Park at eight-thirty on the morning of August 26th, 1998.
Tsui was days away from beginning his junior year at Stony Brook University. He was twenty-years-old and went by the nickname of “Jimmy.” He was about five-feet-and-nine-inches tall and weighed a hundred and forty pounds. He had black hair, brown eyes, glasses, and was last seen wearing blue jeans. His birthday was March 27th, 1978.
Nonetheless, some reports claim that there are differences between the remains and Tsui’s physical description. The brother of Tsui has stated that friends still ask about him and the situation has been extremely hard on his family. He said that it has been tough to answer questions and that the family longs for relief.
