News: Gilgo Beach Case Update
(Long Island, N.Y.) Not only have followers of the Gilgo Beach murders turned to the Internet for news-related updates, but some have considered the Internet as an avenue for tracking down the killer. The Internet has played a significant role in the case of the Gilgo Beach murders, starting with the Craigslist soliciting of the four women who were found last December. Nonetheless, police and authorities wonder about what other ways the Internet could have contributed to the untimely death of the victims.
It’s already been publicized that one of the four women found in December was advertised in a second website known for Long Island’s erotic exchanges. The boyfriend of the first victim to be identified was forced to turn his laptop over to investigators. Some followers of the case wonder how much the killer is using the Internet to target and later mock his victims.
One report stated that false Facebook profiles were made for the women after their deaths. While authorities don’t know who created the profiles, it has been reported that the women were friends with each other on the website. A profile was also created for a “Jane Doee” who was a mutual friend.
Among these profiles were ones for the four women found murdered in Atlantic City. While no proven links have been made between the victims, followers of the case have often drawn connections. The Atlantic City victims were found face-down and clothed while missing socks and shoes and pointed eastward.
Though it is apparent that the creator of the fake profiles favors some sort of link between the eight female victims, those who have profiled the killers paint a different picture. The profile for the Atlantic City killer is of a man with poor verbal and interpersonal skills. The Gilgo Beach serial killer has been profiled as a man who is more methodical and sophisticated.
According to one source, whoever created the Facebook profiles only commented once on the memorial page for a woman murdered by her ex-lover. The woman, a thirty-year-old scheduling secretary for the state’s governor, was found dumped off the coast of New Jersey. She went missing on June 28th, 1996.
At the time of the murder, her killer was a forty-six-year-old wealthy lawyer who had left his wife of twenty-six years and their four daughters in 1995. Reports stated that he was chronically unfaithful, and was seeing a variety of women during the marriage. Things turned sour between him and the victim, and she tried to break it off.
One report stated that the victim got worried when he called once every half-hour and feared for her life. Nonetheless, the two continued to see each other and were spotted by a waitress at a restaurant they visited right before her disappearance. The waitress allegedly stated that the couple did not look happy.
Reports also stated that the husband of one of the Atlantic City victims was the first to alert authorities of the fake Facebook profiles. He said that his wife had visited Long Island, and at least one other Atlantic City victim also shared a common link. Reports stated that one of the victims had a boyfriend from New York.
