



The case endured through five police commissioners, more than 1,000 tips, countless theories and supposed conspiracies. What became known as the Gilgo Beach murders - the victims mostly young women who had been sex workers - flummoxed investigators for over a dozen years. An 11th person, whose disappearance had spurred the initial search, was found dead by the highway in December 2011. The remains of six other people were found along several miles of the same parkway during the next few months. (AP) - The first find was startling: a woman’s skeletal remains cast into the dunes along a remote Long Island highway.ĭays after that discovery in December 2010, police discovered parts of three more women nearby on a spit of sand known as Gilgo Beach.
