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The Long Island serial killer (also referred to by media sources as the Gilgo Beach Killer or the Craigslist Ripper) is an unidentified suspected American serial killer who is believed to have murdered 10 to 17 people associated with the sex trade over a period of nearly 20 years and dumped their bodies along the Ocean Parkway, near the remote Long Island beach towns of Gilgo Beach and Oak Beach in Suffolk County and the area of Jones Beach State Park in Nassau County. The remains of four victims were found in December 2010, while six more sets of remains were found in March and April 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=8 Sets Of Remains Now Found On Beach )〕 Police believe that the latest sets of remains predate the four bodies found in December 2010.〔("Latest Remains Found on N.Y. Beach Could be Victims of Another Long Island Serial Killer" ) Retrieved 2011-04-13.〕 On May 9, 2011, authorities surmised that two of the newest sets of remains might be the work of a second killer. On November 29, 2011, however, the police announced that they believe that one person is responsible for all 10 deaths and that they do not believe that the case of Shannan Gilbert is related.〔("Police suspect murder victims found on Long Island's Gilgo Beach were murdered by single serial killer" ), nydailynews.com. Retrieved 2011-11-30.〕 "It is clear that the area in and around Gilgo Beach has been used to discard human remains for some period of time," said Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota.〔("NY beach community becomes dumping ground of death" ), Associated Press. Retrieved 2011-05-14.〕 ==Police investigation== Police were initially searching for Shannan Gilbert, a 24-year-old woman working as an escort〔(Jersey City prostitute still missing after 13 months of searching ), Amy Brittain, New Jersey On-Line, Sunday, June 12, 2011, 9:30 AM〕〔(On Long Island, Police Search For Missing Woman ) by Joel Rose, NPR, April 10, 2011〕 from New Jersey, who was reported missing in May 2010. She was last seen in the area after she ran from, rather than to, her driver, Michael Pak, who was waiting for her outside a client's house in nearby Oak Beach.〔 In December 2010, a police officer and his dog on a routine training exercise discovered the first body – "the skeletal remains of a woman in a nearly disintegrated burlap sack".〔("Officer and His Dog Play Key Role in Hunt for Remains". ) New York Times. Retrieved 2011-04-23.〕 This discovery led to three more bodies being found two days later in the same area on the north side of the Ocean Parkway. Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said "Four bodies found in the same location pretty much speaks for itself. It's more than a coincidence. We could have a serial killer." A few months later, in late March and early April 2011, four more bodies were discovered in another area off the parkway. Suffolk Police expanded the search area up to the Nassau County border, looking for more victims. On April 6, 2011, Detective Lt. Kevin Smith of the Nassau County Police Department said that his office will "further explore and investigate any criminal activity which may be in close proximity to the recently discovered human remains found in Suffolk." Smith also said that Nassau Police will be coordinating with Suffolk County and New York State Police on the investigation. Five days later, the search for more bodies began in Nassau County. Local media reported that an additional set of partial human remains was found, as well as a separate skull, bringing the potential total number of victims found since December to ten.〔("More remains found in serial killer investigation" ) Retrieved 2011-4-11.〕 On April 22, 2011, two human teeth were found about a foot from the skull.〔("Human teeth found in serial killer search in New York" ) Retrieved 2011-04-23.〕 On June 16, 2011, Suffolk County police raised the reward from $5,000 to $25,000 (the largest ever offered in the county's history) for information leading to an arrest in the Long Island murders.〔("Police raise reward in Long Island serial killer case" ). CNN.com. Retrieved 2011-06-17.〕 On September 20, 2011, police released composite sketches of two of the unidentified victims whose remains were found in March and April 2011 (an Asian male and Jane Doe No. 6), as well as photos of jewelry found on the remains of a female toddler and her mother, found on April 4 and 11, 2011, respectively. The toddler's mother was also revealed as one of the sets of remains found in Nassau County on April 11.〔 Also on September 20, police revealed that the second set of remains found in Nassau County on April 11, 2011, matched two legs that were found in a garbage bag that had washed up on Fire Island in 1996.〔〔 , the police had received over 1,200 tips via text, email and phone since the beginning of the investigation. On November 29, 2011, police announced that they believe one person is responsible for all 10 murders, and that the person is almost certainly from Long Island.〔("Investigators Believe Single Serial Killer Behind Gilgo Beach Bodies" ) nbcnewyork.com. Retrieved 2011-11-30.〕 On December 13, 2011, the remains of Shannan Gilbert were found in a marsh about half a mile from where she disappeared, and a week after some of her clothes and belongings were found in the vicinity. Police believe that Shannan accidentally drowned after stumbling into a swamp, a view not shared by her mother. She had last been seen banging on a resident's door and screaming for help before running off into the night. A panicked 911 call from Gilbert that night revealed her saying that "they were going to kill her."〔("Remains found near NY beach believed to be missing prostitute; led to serial killing probe" ) Washington Post. 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