December 10th, 2010.
Do I personally think that James Burke had anything to do with the bodies found along Gilgo Beach? "Help me, help me," she demands, her own voice replacing his panic with fear.
During one of these visits to her grandmother's, after a particularly violent fight with Vybe, the police staged a raid of his hotel room; where they found Vybe hiding out with three others, and stacks of stolen goods that his clients would trade in exchange for coke.
Richard Dormer was a man with one foot out of the door. Listen to "The Long Island Serial Killer (Update)" on Spreaker. Bizarrely, Mari says he also denied calling her … The cell phone Hackett was using was close enough to Mari Gilbert's home in New Jersey to warrant suspicion. Noted author and former NYPD lieutenant commander Vernon Geberth came out in defense of Richard Dormer's single killer theory. I fall somewhere in the middle- I’m not sure that Shannan was necessarily the victim of LISK, but I do think it possible that she may have been a victim of foul play (more on that later). The older bodies that had been discovered were unidentified, but dated back to 1996. But when Lace Party Girls was shut down, the cash flow was cut off. – Pt. She was responding to a reader who asked how Hackett had Shannan’s mother’s phone number if he had never met her. Even with all of this unfolding out on Oak Beach, no one would come by to look for Shannan for over a month. She had dabbled with drugs like cocaine during her "dates," but was beginning to develop a bit of a problem with alcohol. Her belongings — including her pocketbook, lip gloss, jeans and shoes — were discovered in the marsh about a quarter of a mile from her body, according to The Long Island Press. Not too long after that, Maureen moved in with Jason and his grandparents in Pawtucket, where they stayed until he enlisted in the army, leading them out-of-state. Many skeptics don't believe that a serial offender would strike three times over the period of two months, and then avoid killing altogether from then on.
Police began to run off of this, going down their list of locals who should be suspected.
Richard Dormer, the lame duck Suffolk County Police Commissioner, obviously clung to the idea that this was a single killer. Jessica had tried to avoid her prostitution charges in Washington DC by travelling to New York City for work.
Allegations have been made that paint Spota in a very negative light, and do nothing to repair his reputation as someone that damaged the integrity of the investigation itself.
It's possible that the killer, if he had been a local and familiar to the area, would know that the area off of Ocean Parkway would be a safe place to dump a body: nobody would be traversing that area if they could help it, as the tough bramble would tear apart clothing and would be an issue for even the ardent explorers.