A previously unidentified victim of the unsolved Gilgo Beach murders in Long Island was named Thursday, nearly two decades after her partial remains were first found, police say.
Spencer Platt/Getty Images, FILEin Long Island was named Thursday, nearly two decades after her partial remains were first found, police said.
Mack went missing in 2000 when she was 24 and working as an escort in Philadelphia, according to police. Her partial remains were found that same year in a wooded area off Halsey-Manor Road in Manorville. In 2011, her dismembered remains were found along Ocean Parkway in Gilgo Beach.Valerie Mack was identified as the victim who had been previously known as Jane Doe #6.The murders have never been solved, and, until Mack's identification, half the victims had not yet been identified.
Police made the grisly discovery while searching for a missing sex worker, Shannan Gilbert. Her body eventually was found in December 2011 in nearby Oak Beach, which is also along Ocean Parkway. Police don't believe her death is tied to the others because she"doesn't match the pattern of the Gilgo Beach homicides," but they've also said her death is part of the active investigation into the Gilgo Beach murders.
In this April 15, 2011, file photo, the area near Gilgo Beach and Ocean Parkway on Long Island is shown where police conducted a search after finding ten sets of human remains in Wantagh, NY.In January, police released what they called a"significant piece of evidence" involving the murders. The evidence was a photograph of a black leather belt embossed with the letters"WH" or"HM," depending on how it's held.
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