Oak Beach Bodies Update: Megan Waterman, Maine Woman, I.D.'d as Victim Among Long Island Bodies
YAPHANK, N.Y. (CBS/AP) New York investigators say they've identified one of the four bodies dumped on a Long Island beach as Megan Waterman, a 22-year-old from Scarborough, Maine.
She was last seen at a Holiday Inn Express in Hauppauge, N.Y. on June 6. Her body was found Dec. 13.
Suffolk County police also say they are close to identifying the other remains uncovered in the same area.
Police accidentally discovered the bodies in December. The four dead were strewn over a quarter-mile stretch of marshy grasslands, overgrown shrubbery and sea grass on a barrier island, near an oceanfront parkway.
Police Commissioner Richard Dormer and Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said Wednesday they were very close to identifying the other remains.
Authorities have collected DNA samples and medical records from other families who contacted them after the remains were discovered in December.