JUST IN: Police identify another victim in the Gilgo Beach killings, 27 years after her partial remains were found.
One of the victims in the Gilgo Beach murders, previously dubbed"Jane Doe Seven," has finally been identified, 27 years after her partial remains were found, officials announced Friday.
Crime laboratory officers prepare to search the home of Gilgo Beach murders suspect Rex Heuermann in Massapequa Park, New York, on July 18, 2023.Human remains of Jane Doe Seven were located in Davis Park on Fire Island in 1996. DNA later linked these remains to another set of remains located April 11, 2011, along Ocean Parkway, in Nassau County, according to aTierney said Friday that Vergata went missing on Feb. 14, 1996. She had lived in Manhattan and was believed to be working as an escort.
In August 2022, six months after the Gilgo Beach task force formed, a DNA profile “suitable for genealogical comparisons” was developed from the remains, and the FBI completed a genetic genealogy review and was able to “presumptively” identify her in September 2022. A buccal swab from a relative led officials to definitively identify Vergata in October 2022.
in the deaths of three women — Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Megan Waterman, 22; and Amber Lynn Costello, 27. He was also said to be the prime suspect in the disappearance of a fourth woman: 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who vanished in 2007. The group of women were known as the “Gilgo Four.”
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