NYPD denies cops eyed in Long Island serial killer case

(CBS/AP) HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. - The New York Post report that two NYPD officers with histories of prostitution trouble are being eyed as suspects in the Long Island serial killer case is simply untrue, according to an NYPD spokesman.

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The Post said on Sunday that a source familiar with the probe claimed two New York city cops were under investigation related to the human remains that were found along a New York beach highway - including the head of a prostitute missing since 2003.

The police department later issued a statement saying "no NYPD officer has been identified as a suspect," according to Long Island newspaper Newsday.

A Suffolk County prosecutor said last week that at least two killers dumped body parts along a remote beachfront highway, and remains discovered in recent months include the heads and limbs of two women whose torsos were found years ago in another town.

"It is clear that the area in and around Gilgo Beach has been used to discard human remains for some period of time," District Attorney Thomas Spota said. "As distasteful and disturbing as that is, there is no evidence that all of these remains are the work of a single killer."

Of the 10 sets of remains found since December, eight were found in Suffolk County and two in neighboring Nassau County.

Authorities said the remains found in Suffolk include four women whose deaths appear to be connected, all of them prostitutes who had booked clients on the Internet; two women whose dismembered remains were scattered along the highway and on eastern Long Island; an Asian man whose killing appears unconnected to the women's deaths; and a toddler whose cause of death is unknown.

Authorities also said they had tentatively identified the other two bodies, and indicated those deaths may be unrelated to either the prostitutes found in December or the two women whose remains were scattered.

Complete coverage of the Long Island killings on Crimesider