It’s also tempting to connect Ms. Mack to Jessica Taylor — two women discovered in the same way, in two of the same places. Especially her son. More than an unsolved mystery, the case of the Long Island serial killer has been an investigation with next to no visible movement — a procedural that even the police, at times, seemed to want no part of. Now, seemingly out of nowhere, Ms. Hart was revealing that the police had learned Jane Doe No. Ms. Hart on Long Island wasn’t the only person wondering if something similar could happen for New York’s most famous unsolved multiple-murder investigation. She also knows how poorly the police have come off in the public eye, seen as showing little more than apathy and even disdain for the victims. 6; and Shannan Gilbert. Gilbert, a 24-year-old sex worker, vanished after leaving a client’s house on foot in the seafront community of Oak Beach, disappearing into the marsh. This was only the first of several grisly discoveries. Parts of Ms. Taylor’s body, like Ms. Mack’s, were first found in Manorville in 2003; unlike Ms. Mack, Ms. Taylor was identified right away, though her case also went unsolved. The Long Island serial killer (also referred to as LISK, the Gilgo Beach Killer or the Craigslist Ripper) is an unidentified suspected serial killer who is believed to have murdered 10 to 16 people over a period of nearly 20 years, mostly women associated with prostitution, and left their bodies in areas on the South Shore of Long Island, New York. How do we get the message out?” she asked. Proud to be Number 1 Broadcast BEST PLACES TO WORK ON TV - 2018, HISTORY PLAY AND CRIME+INVESTIGATION PLAY NOW AVAILABLE ON PRIME VIDEO CHANNELS IN THE NETHERLANDS, A+E NETWORKS® UK COMMISSIONS OFF THE FENCE TO PRODUCE ONE-OFF SPECIAL ABOUT FAMICILIDE, KYM MARSH FRONTS #HEREFORHER TO END ABUSE AGAINST WOMEN WITH CRIME + INVESTIGATION® AND REFUGE. “They had attempted to report her missing, but they weren’t able to,” Ms. Hart said. For a decade, there has been no telling how these women died — or who took their bodies to the woods, beaches and roadside brambles of Long Island. Ms. Hart needed a workaround. “But there is momentum. “How,” Ms. Hart remembered asking, “do we get this done?”. In early 2011, these four victims were identified by DNA as Amber Lynn Costello, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Megan Waterman and Melissa Barthelemy — all in their 20s, all also working as escorts. “I can’t imagine that kind of pain of not knowing. Despite her family’s best efforts to get her treated as a missing person, the police said there was little to be done — even after it came out that Ms. Gilbert had made a 911 call that night, during which she insisted someone was trying to kill her. “I mean, 20 years, she was without a name and the family,” Ms. Hart said. Before committing to that theory, Ms. Hart intends to pursue more clues by identifying more victims. And why did the news conference take place the same day that Netflix released the trailer for “Lost Girls?” Others took the opportunity to criticize the investigation: John Ray, the lawyer for Shannan Gilbert’s estate, held his own news conference the same day, blasting the inquiry as “inadequate and negligent.”, Ms. Hart defended her decision to be more public about the case. Ms. Gilbert was virtually forgotten until seven months later, when the Suffolk police discovered the four bodies draped in burlap along the side of Ocean Parkway, three miles from where Ms. Gilbert was last seen alive. 48 Hours investigates whether there is a serial killer operating in Long Island.