Are Oak Beach, NY Bodies Tied to Atlantic City Serial Killer?
NEW YORK (CBS/WCBS/AP) Prosecutors in Atlantic City said they're in contact with investigators in New York to see if there might be some connection to a series of unsolved prostitute murders that occurred there four years ago with the four women whose bodies were found dumped on a deserted beach highway on Long Island.
Meanwhile, the FBI offered its assistance with the investigation by Suffolk County authorities, who suspect they may be dealing with a serial killer.
Police in New Jersey are looking into a possible link to the deaths of four women who worked as prostitutes in the boardwalk area of Atlantic City in 2006.
"We have been in contact with authorities in Suffolk County, New York," Atlantic County Prosecutor Ted Housel said in a statement to ABC News on Thursday. "It would not be fair for us to comment on their investigation."
While searching for a missing New Jersey woman, police uncovered four bodies hidden alongside a remote parkway at a beach on Long Island. The grisly find started Saturday when dogs unearthed a skeleton, and then three more bodies stunned investigators on Monday.
The bodies were found Monday at Oak Beach, which is on a remote barrier island that divides the Great South Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, the Suffolk County Police Department said.
A police canine unit searching the area Saturday came upon the first body. The unit was searching the area in response to a missing-person report made in May after Jersey City, N.J., resident Shannon Gilbertvanished.